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Terrina Jairaj

Files reveal that Epstein’s private island ‘mosque’ was a grotesque vanity project stocked with stolen holy relics

The bizarre blue-striped building on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island Little St. James, was actually a vanity project disguised as a mosque, complete with stolen holy relics from Islam’s most sacred sites. Newly released documents from the Epstein files reveal the structure, long the subject of wild conspiracy theories, was never intended for worship. 

Instead, it was a grotesque passion project for the disgraced financier, who filled it with fragments of the Kaaba, the holiest object in Islam, and other priceless artifacts looted from Mecca. According to UNILAD, the building, topped with a gold dome and wrapped in blue-and-white stripes, was originally pitched to authorities as a music pavilion. But architectural plans and emails show Epstein had far more grandiose, and sacrilegious, ambitions. 

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