How Jimmy Buffett — and a ragtag band of drug smugglers — helped turned St. Barth into celebrities’ hedonistic paradise

How Jimmy Buffett — and a ragtag band of drug smugglers — helped turned St. Barth into celebrities’ hedonistic paradise

Although St. Barth has been known as a tropical playground for the rich and famous for several decades, it’s not so long ago that the Caribbean island was a scruffy, even rough corner of paradise attracting hard-living ex-pat dropouts who fancied themselves as modern pirates. If that sounds like a Jimmy Buffett song, that’s because … Read more