Which prominent people are documented to have visited Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St. James and what evidence supports those visits?
Executive summary
A mix of photographs, contemporaneous emails, court filings and a 2024 data-broker mapping have established that a range of high-profile visitors — including physicist Stephen Hawking, financier Jes Staley, entertainment figures such as Dustin Hoffman (reported), and several business and political associates — were present on Jeffrey Epstein’s Little St. James; other frequently named figures, notably former President Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, have travel records or flight logs tying them to Epstein but lack direct, corroborated evidence placing them on the island in the cited reporting [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Allegations about visits by royals and political leaders exist in court filings and victim testimony but remain contested or denied in other records and statements [6] [7] [8].
1. Stephen Hawking — photographed on the island, conference context documented
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking was photographed attending a barbecue and touring a submarine at Little St. James in March 2006 while in the Caribbean for a conference, and multiple outlets cite those images as direct evidence that he visited the island [9] [1].
2. Prince Andrew — named in civil claims and victim testimony, denial and settlement complicate the record
Prince Andrew is repeatedly named in civil lawsuits and by accusers such as Virginia Giuffre as having been on Little St. James, and those allegations featured centrally in court filings and reporting; Buckingham Palace and the prince have denied the alleged misconduct even as a later civil settlement between the prince and Giuffre ended litigation without admission of liability, leaving public records that reference his connection while stopping short of a criminal finding in the reporting provided [6] [2] [7].
3. Business figures and emails — documented visits via correspondence and logistics
Emails and the released “Epstein files” show concrete arrangements and coordinated visits: a longtime Epstein aide arranged a December 2012 lunch on Little St. James with Lutnick and his family, with emails detailing docking logistics, which provides documentary proof of at least scheduled on-island attendance by named business associates [10]. Reporting also cites Jes Staley among visitors to the island [2].
4. Data-broker maps — a new kind of evidence that traces devices to the island
An independent WIRED investigation analyzed location data from a controversial broker (Near Intelligence) showing nearly 200 mobile devices that recorded visits to Little St. James between 2016 and July 6, 2019, producing maps that linked devices back to residences and workplaces and offering high-precision, albeit indirect, evidence of many visitors who otherwise avoided public association [4].
5. Entertainment and academic visitors — press reports and contemporaneous accounts
Multiple media reports and profiles list entertainment and academic figures — including reports that Dustin Hoffman visited the island in 2014 with investor Marc Andreessen’s colleague (Ito) and accounts of Nobel laureates and academics attending Epstein-organized conferences — relying on journalistic reporting, contemporaneous photographs, and event documentation as evidence of their presence [3] [1].
6. The Clinton question and limits of public documentation
Former President Bill Clinton appears frequently in court papers and in flight logs showing trips on Epstein’s plane in the early 2000s, but representatives and some released emails cited in later reporting assert he denied ever being on Little St. James, and the sources here note that no unambiguous island-visit record has been produced in the cited reporting to place him on that island; Epstein’s own released emails include denials concerning Clinton’s presence [5] [11] [7]. That evidentiary gap underscores an important distinction: travel on Epstein aircraft is documented in some sources, but island visitation requires separate corroboration such as photographs, emails arranging island logistics, court testimony alleging presence, or device-location records [5] [4] [10].
Conclusion — a patchwork of direct and indirect proof, contested names remain
The assembled evidence in reporting is a patchwork: some visitors are directly documented by photographs, contemporaneous emails arranging logistics, or court filings alleging presence; the 2024 data-broker leak added an unconventional but powerful layer of device-location evidence linking many individuals to Little St. James [1] [10] [4]. For a number of high-profile names, however, the record remains contested or consists of indirect ties (flight logs, mentions in filings) without a definitive, independently corroborated island sighting in the provided sources, meaning responsibility for distinguishing proven presence from allegation falls to the specific nature of the documentary record cited above [5] [7] [8].