SpongeBob’s address is not Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island

Posts on Facebook claim that the address shown on the driver’s license of SpongeBob SquarePants, the animated sea sponge who has starred in the eponymous Nickelodeon show since 1999, is located on Little St. James, the private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands once owned by Jeffrey Epstein. This claim is false.

Examples of these posts can be found here , here and here .

According to a SpongeBob fandom page ( here ), iterations of SpongeBob’s driver’s license has appeared in eight episodes throughout the series: "Sleepy Time” (2000), “No Free Rides” (2001), “Nautical Novice” (2008), “Gone” (2008), “Bumper to Bumper” (2012), “Patrick! The Game” (2015), “SpongeBob LongPants” (2016), “Burst Your Bubble” (2017), and “Girls’ Night Out” (2018). The address for his “pineapple under the sea” has consistently been “124 Conch St., Bikini Bottom” in each of these episodes.

The posts on social claim that “124 Conch Street” is the address of a theme park called “Ledges of Little St. James” that is located on Little St. James. Dubbed “Pedophile Island” and “Orgy Island” by locals and the media alike, the island, according to Epstein’s accusers, was once a place where Epstein and his associates trafficked and sexually abused young women and girls.