What other public figures are documented on Epstein's flight logs and when did they fly?
Executive summary
Flight logs and related court records released in litigation and by the Department of Justice document that a range of public figures — including former presidents, business leaders, entertainers and scientists — appear as passengers on Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft at various times between the 1990s and 2019; the records themselves are public in DocumentCloud and Justice Department releases and have been compiled and analyzed by news outlets such as Business Insider and major newspapers [1][2][3][4]. The logs list names and dates (for example, a September 2002 flight to Africa carrying Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker is recorded), but the records do not, by themselves, prove misconduct or establish the nature of each person’s association with Epstein [5].
1. What the “flight logs” are and where they come from
The documents referred to as Epstein’s flight logs are pilot manifests, passenger lists and related aviation records produced in the U.S. v. Maxwell case and other litigation and government releases; the unredacted manifests are available in DocumentCloud and on Justice Department pages, and U.S. government releases and media compilations have created searchable datasets from those materials [1][2][6][3]. The Justice Department and other agencies later released millions of pages of Epstein-related material that included additional manifest entries and contextual documents referenced by outlets such as The New York Times and Axios [4][7].
2. Prominent names that appear in the logs (examples and context)
Reported passengers named in the logs include former President Bill Clinton (recorded on many flights), Donald Trump (appearing on multiple flights in the 1990s), Naomi Campbell, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers, Ron Burkle, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker and, in other reporting compilations, figures as varied as astronaut John Glenn — all drawn from the flight manifests, media compilations and reporting that analyzed them [5][3][8]. News reporting and encyclopedic summaries note that Epstein cultivated a wide social circle and that court documents and flight logs have repeatedly contained prominent individuals’ names [9][5].
3. Specific dated examples shown in the records
Concrete dated entries highlighted in reporting include a September 2002 flight to Africa listing Bill Clinton along with Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker [5], and at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996 that list Donald Trump as a passenger, including a 1993 trip in which Trump and Epstein are the only two passengers shown on the manifest [10]. Business Insider’s compilation of known flights traces thousands of flights between 1995 and 2019 and links specific passenger names to particular trips in that period, while archived unredacted PDFs reproduce the line‑by‑line pilot logs with dates and tail numbers [3][6].
4. Caveats: what the logs do — and do not — prove
The flight manifests are a contemporaneous record of who was recorded as traveling on Epstein’s aircraft, but they are not proof of criminal conduct by passengers; reporting and prosecutors have emphasized that names on logs indicate travel not guilt, and major document releases have produced numerous entries where context remains unclear or is redacted [2][4]. Media outlets that compiled the logs corrected spelling and annotated ambiguous entries, noting limits in interpreting raw manifests and that additional corroborating evidence is required to draw conclusions about any individual’s behavior [3][1].
5. Why these logs remain significant and how coverage has evolved
The flight records matter because they document Epstein’s reach into elite social and political circles and because successive document dumps have undercut some prior public denials about the depth of certain associations; coverage in 2025–2026 of large DOJ releases renewed scrutiny of prominent names and prompted updated reporting that places named passengers in broader timelines of Epstein’s activities [4][7]. Still, the public record assembled so far is a mix of raw manifest entries, media compilations and prosecutorial notes — useful for establishing who traveled with Epstein and when, but limited in answering why a given individual was aboard or what happened on any flight [2][3].