Jeffrey Epstein’s offshore financial dealings were exposed in part through the Paradise Papers, which revealed his role as chairman of Liquid Funding Ltd., a Bermuda-registered company linked to Bear Stearns. The law firm Appleby, which administered Liquid Funding, operated across multiple tax havens, including the British Virgin Islands, and this connection often creates confusion about Epstein’s financial footprint there. While Appleby’s BVI presence meant that its clients could easily incorporate or shift assets through that jurisdiction, available records show Epstein’s personal offshore entities were tied more directly to Bermuda and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he established companies like Financial Trust Company and Southern Trust.


The BVI does not appear as a core base of Epstein’s corporate structures in the released data, but it factored into the broader offshore web through Appleby’s extensive operations in the territory. In other words, Epstein’s name emerges in the same investigative files that highlight BVI corruption and secrecy issues, but his direct offshore holdings were anchored elsewhere. The overlap underscores how tightly interwoven these secrecy jurisdictions are, with Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the British Virgin Islands all serving as nodes in the same shadow financial system that Epstein exploited.


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