Yeah, I feel like this has been a fairly ridiculous premise from the start. I don't mean that in a way to diss the quality of story progression, just that it's incredibly unrealistic. And sometimes that's actually the point of a story: to experience as best as you can a reality outside of reality, to follow the adventures, misfortunes, triumphs, misdeeds, etc., of someone else.
And what's more, while it ended badly for him, a man in modern times owning his own island where he enslaves a bunch of young girls for sex seems pretty impossible to pull off, yet someone did for decades. IJS.