Financier Stephen Deckoff paid $60 million for Great St. James and Little St. James. He hopes to open a resort on the islands by sometime in 2025.

A private property sign is displayed on Little St. James Island, owned by Jeffrey Epstein, in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, on July 10, 2019. Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty Images ...

FBI agents are seen at Little St. James Island, one of the properties of late financier Jeffrey Epstein, in U.S. Virgin Islands, August 12, 2019, in this image obtained via social media.