Which high-profile figures are confirmed to have visited Jeffrey Epstein's island and by what sources?
Executive summary
Public records and investigative reporting confirm only a handful of high-profile, traceable links to Little Saint James; many widely circulated “visitor lists” remain unproven or disputed after document releases and data-leak reporting [1] [2]. The clearest, repeatedly documented connections in mainstream reporting are Prince Andrew (named in court papers and widely reported), specific government officials and family members tied to travel records, and a set of device-location traces produced by a data broker that map visits to the island but do not always identify visitors by name [3] [4] [2].
1. Prince Andrew — the most repeatedly documented named visitor
Multiple news organizations and the unsealed court documents explicitly name Prince Andrew among the high-profile figures connected to Epstein, and British and U.S. reporting has treated his presence in Epstein’s orbit as one of the clearest individual links in the public record [3]. While court filings and media accounts differ on details and context, the BBC reported that Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton were among the figures named in court papers released in the Maxwell-related litigation, with Andrew’s relationship to Epstein receiving sustained scrutiny [3].
2. Government officials and travel records — selective confirmations, broader denials
Some travel and record-based reporting confirm visits by specific government officials or their relatives: PBS reported that a U.S. commerce secretary visited Epstein’s Caribbean island with family on at least one occasion based on records, a detail that contradicted earlier public statements about cutting ties [4]. By contrast, other major names remain disputed: court filings and Secret Service travel-log scrutiny have been used to dispute claims that Bill Clinton visited Little Saint James, and Clinton has denied being on the island even though he appears in flight logs for Epstein aircraft related to other locations [5] [3].
3. The data-broker map — high-resolution location evidence without full names
A WIRED investigation obtained maps from a location-data broker (Near Intelligence) that show nearly 200 unique mobile devices visiting Little Saint James in the years before Epstein’s death, providing high-precision evidence that many wealthy and influential people were physically present on the island at particular times; however, the maps often point to residences or workplaces rather than incontrovertible identity-level confirmations, so they are strong circumstantial evidence but do not produce a simple, verified list of named public figures [2].
4. Allegations named in court papers — names appear, but the filings don’t equal proof
Unsealed Maxwell/Epstein court filings and victim testimony contain allegations tying a range of prominent figures to visits or encounters on Epstein properties — for example, Virginia Giuffre’s testimony mentions visits and requests involving people she named, and Time summarized several names raised in the documents including academics and technologists [6] [5]. Journalistic and fact-checking outlets caution that many names in the filings appear only in passing, without independent evidence of island visits, and that inclusion in those documents is not proof of presence or wrongdoing [1] [7].
5. High-profile people who expressed interest or appear in related records — not confirmations
Several prominent figures appear in Epstein-related records without a confirmed island visit: Elon Musk exchanged emails with Epstein and appears in schedules that tentatively listed an island visit, and he later denied ever going to the island; reporters note his expressions of interest but not a confirmed trip [8]. Similarly, entertainment and academic figures have been reported or alleged to have been on trips with Epstein or on his planes, but fact-checks have repeatedly found that many social-media lists of 100+ “confirmed” visitors are inaccurate or unproven [5] [1].
6. How to read the record: confirmed presence vs. alleged naming
The durable conclusion from the assembled reporting is that a small number of named, high-profile individuals are repeatedly tied to Epstein’s island in documentary and journalistic records — most notably Prince Andrew and certain officials identified in travel-related records — while a much larger set of names flagged in leaked lists or social posts lacks independent verification; data-broker maps strengthen the case that many powerful people visited Little Saint James, but they do not uniformly translate into publicly confirmed, name-level identifications [3] [4] [2] [1].