What meetings or events linked Bill Richardson to Jeffrey Epstein and when did they occur?

1. Allegations in court testimony: the 2016 Giuffre deposition and later reporting

Court documents unsealed from litigation tied to Epstein included testimony by Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2016 in which she said Epstein sent her to have sex while underage with “New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson,” among other named men; that testimony was first widely reported in 2019 and summarized again in subsequent coverage ^{[3] [6]}. Those reports and the underlying depositions are civil-court materials that add Richardson’s name to a list of prominent people Giuffre mentioned; Richardson publicly denied meeting Giuffre and denied the allegations in those documents ^{[3] [6]}.

2. Flight logs and helicopter manifests: 2011 travel noted in later releases

Congressional releases in 2025 of flight-related records and emails included flight logs for Epstein’s helicopter that, according to reporting and summaries, showed a 2011 trip in which Richardson and his chief of staff, Brian Condi, traveled with Epstein and three of Giuffre’s accusers from Necker Island to the U.S. Virgin Islands; Condi reportedly said the flight originated at Richard Branson’s Necker Island ^[4]. Those flight-log references are described in summaries of the 2025 document releases and in Richardson’s Wikipedia entry as drawn from the congressional release ^[4].

3. Contact lists and email releases: Richardson’s name appears among many contacts

Documents released by the House Oversight Committee in 2025 included tens of thousands of pages of emails and other records that reporters parsed for links between Epstein and prominent figures. Summaries and aggregations state that Richardson was among numerous people listed in Epstein’s personal contact book as of November 12, 2025, when compilations of the material were reported ^{[4] [7]}. Those releases are part of a broad disclosure effort that named many public figures; inclusion in contact lists or correspondence is not, by itself, proof of criminal conduct and needs context ^{[7] [8]}.

4. What the sources say about timing and nature of interactions

Available reporting identifies specific timing in two ways: the Giuffre deposition (testimony taken in 2016 describing events she alleged occurred earlier) and a 2011 flight log entry described in 2025 releases ^{[3] [4]}. Other 2025 document dumps — emails and lists — show names in contact books and correspondences spanning roughly 2011–2018 in the released material, but they do not, in the summaries provided, detail face-to-face meetings between Richardson and Epstein beyond the flight notation and the contact-book listing ^{[7] [8]}.

5. Richardson’s responses and legal/charging status

Multiple outlets reporting the unsealed materials noted Richardson denied the specific allegations in the Giuffre testimony, saying he’d never met Giuffre and never seen Epstein with underage girls; importantly, none of the reporting in the provided sources shows Richardson was criminally charged ^{[3] [6]}. The sources emphasize these are allegations from civil-court depositions and document releases, not convictions ^{[3] [5]}.

6. Competing interpretations and why context matters

Journalistic coverage and the congressional releases produced competing impulses: one set of reporters highlighted names appearing in documents or flight logs as evidence of proximity ^{[4] [8]}, while others and Richardson’s statements point to denials and the absence of criminal charges ^{[3] [6]}. Inclusion in contact books or flight manifests can mean anything from casual acquaintance to direct involvement; the sources do not uniformly interpret those entries as proof of wrongdoing ^{[7] [5]}.

7. Limitations and what the available reporting does not show

Available sources do not provide a definitive chronology of in-person meetings beyond the cited 2011 flight-log entry and the published 2016 deposition describing alleged earlier encounters; full FBI or DOJ investigative files detailing contemporaneous witness statements, forensic evidence, or charging decisions about Richardson are not included in the provided material ^{[4] [3]}. If you are seeking exhaustive primary documents (e.g., unredacted DOJ files), those are not found in the current reporting excerpts supplied here.

Bottom line: public sources provided to date tie Bill Richardson to Jeffrey Epstein through an accuser’s 2016 deposition (reported in 2019–2024) and to a 2011 flight-log entry and contact-book listings revealed in 2025 document releases; Richardson denied the allegations and was not charged, and the documents as reported are civil materials and compiled lists that require careful context before inferring criminality ^{[3] [4] [7]}.