What do the unsealed Epstein flight logs say about other high‑profile passengers and the dates of those flights?
Executive summary
The unsealed Epstein flight logs are lists of passengers and trip details from Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft that document numerous well‑known figures flying on Epstein’s planes across the 1990s and 2000s, including former Presidents, celebrities and business leaders, with dates and routes recorded in many entries [1] [2] [3]. Journalistic and court releases in recent years have expanded and republished those logs alongside millions of pages of related material, prompting renewed scrutiny of who traveled with Epstein and when, while legal observers caution that presence on a manifest is context, not proof of wrongdoing [4] [5] [6].
1. What the unsealed logs actually are and how they were released
The “flight logs” are operational records—passenger names, aircraft tail numbers, dates, departure and arrival codes and sometimes seat counts—pulled into court filings and public repositories such as DocumentCloud and archived PDF releases that accompanied the Maxwell and other case document unsealings [1] [2]. Key court orders and subsequent public campaigns forced partial unsealing of documents beginning in 2023 and continued through later releases that together produced millions of pages of Epstein‑related records, a process documented in court reporting and news coverage [4] [5].
2. Which high‑profile names appear and sample flight dates
The logs and reporting show repeated appearances by prominent figures: Bill Clinton is recorded on Epstein’s jet many times—including reporting that counts roughly 27 flights on the plane across international trips—while Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker are tied to a September 2002 Africa trip in contemporaneous records [3]. Donald Trump appears in flight listings from the early‑to‑mid‑1990s, with at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996 and a 1993 flight where logs list only Epstein and Trump as passengers, according to released material and prosecutor annotations [7]. Other names associated with the aircraft in previously released logs and media summaries include Naomi Campbell, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers and businessman Ron Burkle, among others recorded across the 1990s and 2000s [3] [1].
3. How specific dates and routings are shown in the records
Entries in the archived unredacted PDF and DocumentCloud sets include line‑by‑line date stamps and departure/arrival airport codes (for example, TEB to PBI on February 28, 1996 in one archived entry), allowing researchers to tie named passengers to specific flights and itineraries when a name is legible and unredacted [2] [1]. Some published summaries and prosecutors’ notes highlight particular flights of interest—such as those in 1993 and 2002—because multiple high‑profile names and contextual annotations appear next to dates in the released materials [7] [3].
4. Limits of inference: presence ≠ culpability
Public guides and civil‑file analyses emphasize that flight manifests provide context but do not, by themselves, establish criminal activity or knowledge of wrongdoing for every passenger listed; the records document travel patterns that merit investigation but require corroborating evidence to prove complicity [6]. Reporting on the broader document dumps has shown how many powerful figures rushed to distance themselves from Epstein once records circulated, and journalists warn that names in logs have been used both to justify deeper probes and to fuel unverified claims online [5] [6].
5. New releases and disputes over completeness
Government and congressional releases have continued after the initial lines of flight logs, with later disclosures and oversight demands producing additional pages—but not all parties agree the record is complete: lawmakers have disputed whether Justice Department releases fully complied with requests, and media outlets have reported staggered disclosures that revealed fresh names and annotations as late as 2026 [4] [5]. The evolving corpus means researchers should treat the unsealed logs as a significant but still partial map that must be read alongside depositions, emails and other documents to understand who Epstein associated with and on what dates [1] [5].