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One of the odder conspiracy claims associated with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (who committed suicide in custody while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges) was the claim that the home address shown on the driver's license of the beloved SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon character was the same as the location of Epstein's so-called pedophile island: The 124 Conch Street address is indeed one that has been used in the fictional world of the SpongeBob SquarePants animated series, as the location of the Bikini Bottom pineapple house on the floor of the Pacific Ocean where SpongeBob SquarePants lives with his pet snail Gary and his pet scallop Shelley. However, that address has no connection with the Caribbean island known as Little St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands that was owned by Epstein, at which under-aged girls were allegedly sexually abused. As shown in the post reproduced above, a Google search for Little St James Island Theme Park did at one point return information displaying an address of 124 Conch Street, Bikini bottom as being associated with that notorious Epstein property in the U.S. Virgin Islands: However, as The Wall Street Journal had reported about a year earlier, Google Maps and its online business listings have been highly prone to being gamed and propagated with false information (for fun and profit): This same information was pointed out by multiple social media users responding to postings about this conspiracy theory: The SpongeBob/Epstein address coincidence (which Google appears to have removed as of this writing) seems to have been nothing more than a spoof positing a non-existent connection between two pop culture figures, one a beloved, fictional children's figure, and the other a real-life, disgraced sex offender.
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