Which specific names are listed in public Epstein flight logs and contact books, and how do they compare to names in the Riley recordings?
Executive summary
Publicly released Epstein materials—flight logs and a redacted contact book—contain dozens of names ranging from celebrities and business figures to politicians; the Department of Justice’s February 2025 packet and long-available flight-log archives list specific entries such as Naomi Campbell, Jimmy Buffett, Marvin Minsky, Sarah Ferguson and others [1] [2] [3] [4]. The “Riley” audio recordings that circulated later reportedly allege involvement by “well-known political and judicial figures,” but the recordings’ authenticity and a clear, attributable roster of names are not established in the available reporting, making direct name-by-name comparison provisional at best [5].
1. What the public flight logs and contact book actually contain
The Justice Department’s “first phase” release included a flight-log packet and a redacted contact book and masseuse list, totaling more than 100 pages of material that the administration described as shedding light on Epstein’s network [1] [6]. Independent and regional reporting pulled named examples from those public files: Naomi Campbell and Janice Dickinson appear in flight-log and contact-book reporting, Jimmy Buffett and Chris Evans are cited in the contact-book summaries, and other names flagged in public summaries include Sarah, Duchess of York, Marvin Minsky, Bill Richardson and Glenn Dubin [2] [3]. Archive copies of unredacted flight-log PDFs and DocumentCloud versions of the logs are publicly accessible and list many itinerary entries, though researchers must parse variations in handwriting, nicknames and ambiguous initials to interpret them [4] [7].
2. How redactions and sourcing shape the public list
The DOJ release itself emphasized that the contact book was redacted to protect victim identities and that more documents would be produced after review, which means publicly released lists are partial and filtered [1]. Reporting also shows that successive public releases have been edited and curated—Axios and other outlets described the packet as “more than 100 pages” that included redacted materials, and archival repositories of flight logs exist alongside the DOJ packet for researchers to cross-check [6] [4]. That combination—official redaction plus multiple public and archival copies—creates both clarity (some names plainly listed) and ambiguity (names appearing in different formats or redacted contexts), complicating definitive claims about who was present on specific flights or in Epstein’s address book.
3. What the Riley recordings claim and what reporting verifies
Coverage of the Sasha Riley audio recordings reports that the tapes circulated widely claiming to recount trafficking and naming “well-known political and judicial figures,” and that the recordings include alleged survivor testimony about abuse beginning at ages nine to thirteen [5]. However, major outlets note the recordings’ authenticity is unverified in the public record, and the Hindustan Times summary portrays Riley’s naming of prominent figures without supplying a vetted list that can be cross-checked against DOJ-published names [5]. Because the Riley tapes as reported do not present a verifiable, attributed roster in the sources provided, any asserted overlap between Riley’s allegations and the public flight logs or contact book must be treated as tentative.
4. Comparing the two lists: overlap, limits, and open questions
At the broad level there is conceptual overlap: the declassified and archived Epstein logs and contacts include celebrities, politicians and business leaders (e.g., Naomi Campbell, Jimmy Buffett, Marvin Minsky, Sarah Ferguson, Bill Richardson, Glenn Dubin as cited in public reporting), while Riley’s recordings reportedly allege that political and judicial figures were involved [3] [2] [5]. But the available reporting does not provide a side-by-side, verifiable mapping of specific names from Riley’s tapes onto names that appear in the public DOJ flight logs or contact book; the DOJ files are redacted and curated and the Riley tapes remain unverified in the sources at hand [1] [5]. Independent researchers and journalists continue to parse archival flight logs, DOJ releases and any corroborating evidence before definitive comparisons can be drawn [4] [7].