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Which high-profile politicians, celebrities, and business leaders appear in the Epstein flight records?
Executive summary
The public Epstein flight logs and related government records list many high-profile names — including former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, Naomi Campbell, Alan Dershowitz, and others — as passengers or associated with flights on Epstein’s aircraft [1] [2] [3]. Available records are uneven: some releases include full pilot manifests with passenger names and initials, other data releases (FAA movement data, CBP files, DOJ releases) provide routes or dates without passenger names, and many entries remain redacted or ambiguous [4] [5] [6] [7].
1. What the primary records are and how they differ
There are several overlapping sources for Epstein’s flights: pilot-maintained flight logs introduced in litigation (the “flight logs” entered at the Maxwell trial), FAA-provided aircraft movement data, and government FOIA releases such as Customs and Border Protection and Justice Department document dumps; each dataset covers different timeframes and contains different levels of passenger detail [1] [4] [5] [6]. The pilot manifests often list passenger names or initials and were used as evidence at the Maxwell trial [1]; FAA data revealed hundreds of previously unknown flights but does not include passenger names [4]. DOJ and administrative releases in some years added pages but also redactions, so completeness varies [7] [5].
2. Which high-profile politicians appear in the logs
Multiple widely reported entries show former President Bill Clinton aboard Epstein’s planes on a number of international flights in the early 2000s, according to manifests used in court and contemporaneous reporting [1] [2] [3]. Donald Trump’s name also appears on earlier logs dating from the 1990s in reporting that compiled manifest entries [2] [3]. Prince Andrew (the Duke of York), a figure long linked in press coverage to Epstein, is also named in public flight-log compilations [3]. Note that presence on a manifest is not, by itself, proof of wrongdoing; the records only document movement or claimed passengers as recorded by pilots [1].
3. Celebrities and cultural figures listed
Public compilations of the manifests and reporting identify celebrities including Naomi Campbell, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, and the violinist Itzhak Perlman as appearing in flight-log material at various times [1] [2] [3]. Supermodel Naomi Campbell was specifically reported as a passenger on some documented trips [1] [2]. Again, reported listings vary by source and some names are represented only by initials or ambiguous spellings in original logs [1].
4. Business leaders, lawyers and other named associates
The flight logs and associated documents name business figures and professionals such as financier Glenn Dubin and attorney Alan Dershowitz among those recorded in various manifests and datasets [8] [3]. Ghislaine Maxwell — a central defendant in related litigation — is one of the most frequent non‑Epstein entries in pilot logs used in court [9] [1]. The degree to which each named person used the aircraft or had substantive ties to Epstein is uneven across entries and not fully detailed in the records [9].
5. What the records do not settle — ambiguity, redactions and gaps
The records include many initials, first names, misspellings, and redactions; pilots sometimes noted generic descriptions (e.g., “one female”) rather than full names, and releases to the public have left large portions ambiguous [1]. FAA movement records revealed more than 700 previously unknown flights but explicitly did not list passengers, which limits what can be concluded about who was aboard for many trips [4]. Some recent government releases have added pages but also redacted contact and masseuse lists, leaving unresolved questions about context and timing for specific flights [7] [6].
6. Competing interpretations and cautions about inference
Reporting and legal filings have repeatedly emphasized that an appearance in a flight log is not proof of criminal activity — manifests document purported passengers or pilot notes and can be incomplete or erroneous, and different outlets have treated the evidence with varying levels of implication [1] [2]. Some journalists and researchers have used the logs to map networks and frequency of association [3], while others and certain public officials have called for fuller, unredacted disclosure to answer remaining questions [10] [4].
7. Where to look next in the public record
For primary material, consult the flight manifests entered at Maxwell’s trial, the FAA movement release (which documents flights without passengers), and CBP/DOJ public releases cited above; these are the bases for the compiled lists in Business Insider, the Palm Beach Post, and other outlets [1] [4] [3] [2] [6] [5]. Available sources do not mention every rumored name circulating on social media; treat non‑documented claims as unverified until they appear in these primary records or reliable reporting (not found in current reporting).
If you want, I can pull specific named entries (date, origin/destination, and manifest text) for a shortlist of individuals from the DocumentCloud/DOJ manifest files and Business Insider database so you can see the exact lines cited in reporting [11] [6] [3].