Which names consistently appear alongside Bill Clinton in the Epstein flight logs and what roles did those individuals claim to have on the trips?
Executive summary
Flight logs and related files released from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate repeatedly list a cluster of high‑profile names alongside former President Bill Clinton — including entertainers Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, models such as Naomi Campbell, and business and political figures like Larry Summers and Alan Dershowitz — but the records and public statements make clear that the logs themselves rarely explain why each passenger was aboard and that Clinton has said his flights were for foundation work with staff and Secret Service present [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
1. Which names consistently appear with Bill Clinton in the flight logs
Multiple public dumps and reporting on Epstein’s aircraft manifests show many repeat names that overlap with trips listing Bill Clinton: Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker are named as passengers on the same Africa trip with Clinton (reported in flight histories and manifest summaries) [2]; Naomi Campbell, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, Larry Summers, Glenn Dubin and Ghislaine Maxwell appear across the logs and Epstein contact lists that were released by the DOJ and reported widely [1] [6] [7]. News outlets and the released photo caches also show Clinton photographed with Epstein and individuals such as Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson in material tied to the files, underscoring recurring overlaps of prominent figures in Epstein’s orbit [3] [8].
2. What roles those individuals claimed to have on the trips
Public statements attached to the records and contemporaneous commentaries indicate several explicit role claims: Clinton’s office has said his flights in 2002–2003 were foundation‑related trips, describing them as four international sojourns made with staff and Secret Service detail to promote global health and economic development [9] [5] [10]. For other passengers, documentary evidence in the dumps offers fewer first‑person role claims; some travelers are identified in reporting as fellow passengers or “regular travellers” on Epstein’s plane (for example, Nadia Marcinko) rather than as organizers or hosts [2]. In short, beyond Clinton’s asserted official purpose and handwritten notations in manifests listing names, the public record rarely contains contemporaneous, verifiable statements from other passengers describing an official role on those specific legs [4].
3. What the logs themselves show — and what they do not
The flight logs record passenger names, initials or shorthand entries and geographic legs — for example, multiple legs tied to Clinton’s trips across Asia and Africa — but they do not routinely describe the purpose of flights or the activities aboard, and pilots often used initials and first names making interpretation difficult [4] [2]. Reports note that the number of flight “legs” showing Clinton (often counted as 26 or 27) differs from Clinton’s public accounting of “four trips,” because one trip can include multiple logged legs; the logs also don’t uniformly show Secret Service accompaniment even when Clinton’s office has said agents attended [2] [4] [5].
4. Competing narratives and political uses of the logs
The presence of prominent names in the manifests has been used both to suggest wider networks of association and to accuse individuals of deeper wrongdoing; political actors have highlighted numeric discrepancies between Clinton’s and others’ counts of flights (a point raised publicly by former President Trump) even though counting methodologies differ — legs versus multi‑stop trips — and the logs do not settle questions of conduct or knowledge about crimes [9]. Investigative reporters and official releases also emphasize limits: DOJ and media coverage stress that photos and manifests document association, not proof of criminal participation, and that many files remain redacted or contextually thin [8] [5].
5. Bottom line
The flight logs repeatedly list a set of high‑profile travelers who overlap with Clinton’s recorded trips — notably entertainers Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker on an African itinerary, and recurring names such as Ghislaine Maxwell, Naomi Campbell and others across Epstein’s manifests and contact lists — but public records and statements constrain what can be said about roles: Clinton has stated his flights were foundation business with staff and Secret Service [9] [5], while the logs themselves and the released documents largely record presence, not purpose or illicit activity, leaving open factual gaps that require further document release or sworn testimony to resolve [4] [3].