Which names in the DOJ’s Epstein release are supported by flight logs or calendars?

1. Flight logs: where names literally appear on manifests

The most concrete category is names that show up on Epstein’s flight logs as people who flew on his aircraft; reporting notes that Donald Trump’s name appears on page 27 of the flight logs released by the DOJ, which is a direct documentary trace linking that name to the flight manifests ^[2]; the DOJ’s public releases include flight logs as a discrete item in its declassified sets, underscoring that manifest entries are among the materials now searchable by journalists ^{[1] [5]}.

2. Calendars and emails: invitations and schedule entries that imply contact but not attendance

A separate, weaker class of documentary support comes from Epstein’s calendars and emails that record invitations or scheduling entries: LinkedIn co‑founder Reid Hoffman is cited in scheduling records as having a November 2014 island visit and a calendar reminder tying his arrival in Fort Lauderdale to a subsequent “LSJ” flight, which journalists interpret as a calendar entry naming him as an intended guest rather than an incontrovertible travel manifest ^[4]. Similarly, the New York Times and other outlets report calendar invitations and emails referencing Elon Musk attending or being invited to Epstein’s island — including a December 6, 2014 calendar entry that reads “ELON MUSK TO ISLAND DEC. 6TH” — though the Times cautions that some entries do not prove attendance and that it is unclear in at least one case whether the person actually went ^{[3] [6]}.

3. High‑profile names mentioned in documents but lacking clear log/calendar corroboration

Other prominent figures appear across the trove in various ways — as email correspondents, in memos or in investigator slide decks — without a simple flight log or calendar line that confirms travel or presence; for example, the releases include material about Prince Andrew and communications involving Steve Bannon and Steve Tisch, but reporting frames those as notes or correspondence rather than byline entries on an aircraft manifest or an island calendar entry that proves a trip ^[7]. The DOJ itself warns the production includes material submitted by the public and may contain unverified or fraudulent items, so presence in the dump alone is not definitive evidence of travel or wrongdoing ^[8].

4. How to read the levels of documentary support: manifest vs. calendar vs. hearsay

Journalistic sifting matters: flight log entries are the strongest form of documentary linkage released so far because manifests list who boarded Epstein’s plane (and the DOJ published flight logs as part of the initial declassified files), whereas calendar invitations and emails show intent, invitation or scheduling that can suggest association without confirming attendance; meanwhile, photographs, hearsay reports and third‑party submissions in the dump can create names in the corpus that do not equate to verifiable flight or calendar evidence ^{[1] [5] [9] [8]}.

5. Caveats, competing narratives and the DOJ’s framing of the releases

The Justice Department has emphasized transparency while also flagging that the releases contain “sensationalist” or unverified claims and that appearance in the files does not imply criminal conduct, a framing the DOJ and multiple outlets repeat to caution against conflating name‑drops with proof; critics and some politicians have accused the releases of being incomplete or politicized, and media organizations continue to parse which names in the humongous trove are actually substantiated by flight logs or calendars versus those that are circumstantial or unverified ^{[1] [8] [6]}.