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Which celebrities and entertainers were documented flying on Epstein's private jet?
Executive summary
Flight logs and court evidence show many well‑known public figures appeared as passengers on Jeffrey Epstein’s jets across the 1990s–2010s; examples named in reporting include Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Naomi Campbell, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers and Ron Burkle [1] [2] [3] [4]. Available sources do not provide a single authoritative, unredacted master list here; most accounts rely on flight manifests entered in court, FAA disclosures and reporting that extract names from handwritten logs [1] [5] [2].
1. What the primary sources are and how journalists used them
Most public lists of celebrities who flew on Epstein’s planes come from flight logs and manifests introduced in litigation and trials (notably the Maxwell trial) and from FAA/CBP records that were later published or leaked; reporters and court filings combed those handwritten pilot logs and flight manifests to identify passengers, sometimes correcting spellings and matching initials to public figures [1] [5] [2]. Business Insider created a searchable compilation combining unsealed court manifests, signal data and FAA records covering thousands of flights, which is the backbone for many subsequent news lists [2] [5].
2. High‑profile names that repeatedly appear in reporting
Multiple outlets and the flight‑log evidence cite Bill Clinton as a frequent passenger — reporting that Clinton flew tens of times on Epstein aircraft over a multi‑year period [1] [2]. Donald Trump’s name also appears on flight manifests from the 1990s and 2000s; different reports count between several and multiple domestic flights for Trump, and some accounts say he is listed on at least seven flights in the released logs [6] [3]. Other repeatedly cited names include Naomi Campbell, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers and Ron Burkle [1] [4] [3] [2].
3. What the logs show — and what they don’t
Flight manifests list passengers, dates and routing, but they do not by themselves document what occurred onboard, whether hosts knew of crimes, or whether any sexual misconduct happened during a given trip; pilots testifying in trials said they saw no sexual activity on flights [1] [7]. The presence of a name means only that the person was recorded as a passenger on a flight, not that they visited Epstein properties or participated in crimes; reporters caution it is “impossible to tell” from manifests alone whether any passenger traveled when underage victims were present [3] [1].
4. Discrepancies, partial releases and disputes over counts
Different outlets report different totals because of how names were read, redactions, and which flight datasets were used; Business Insider’s database aggregated 2,618 flights from 1995–2019, while FAA disclosures later added hundreds of previously unknown domestic flights — but many of those FAA records lacked passenger names [2] [5]. Subsequent declassifications or releases (for example the 2025 partial releases noted in newer reporting) changed counts and renewed debate over who flew and how often [6] [8]. Therefore lists published by Wikipedia, Newsweek, The Palm Beach Post, Metro and others overlap but are not identical [4] [7] [3] [8].
5. How public figures have responded and why that matters
Some named figures have publicly denied wrongdoing or contextualized their appearances — for instance, spokespeople have said flights were related to charity or official travel, or that the person had limited contact with Epstein; other reactions vary by individual and report [1] [4]. Reporters note that being listed as a passenger has reputational consequences even when records don’t show illicit conduct; investigative outlets therefore stress limits of the logs and the need for corroborating evidence beyond a signature or initials on a manifest [1] [2].
6. Caveats, open questions and where to look next
Available sources do not provide a fully unredacted, authoritative master list in this compilation; much of what’s cited relies on court‑entered flight logs, partial FAA releases, and journalists’ databases that attempt to reconcile handwriting and initials [1] [5] [2]. For readers seeking verification of any particular individual’s travel history, the best contemporaneous documents are the flight manifests entered in court records and the searchable Business Insider dataset derived from those manifests; subsequent declassification releases in 2024–2025 adjusted counts and surfaced new pages [2] [5] [6].
Final note: lists of “celebrities and entertainers” who appeared on Epstein flights are well‑documented in these reporting and court sources, but presence on a manifest is not evidence of criminal conduct by that passenger — many reports and pilot testimony emphasize that the manifests are a record of travel, not of crimes [1] [3].