How many flight logs link Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein and where can they be accessed?
Executive summary
Three different tallies have been reported in public records and news accounts about how many flight-log entries connect former President Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein: some sources count 17 flight legs in 2002–03 [1] [2], others report at least 26 individual flights or flight segments between 2001 and 2003 [3] [4], and contemporary court exhibits show specific flights, including an August 2002 leg listing Clinton with other passengers [5].
1. What the numbers mean — flights, legs, and trips are not the same thing
Reporting has used different units: “legs” or individual flight segments, single flights, and multi-stop trips; counting by legs produces higher totals than counting multi-stop trips, which explains discrepancies like “17 legs” in one account and “26 flights” in another [1] [3] [4], and contemporaneous fact-checking emphasized that earlier claims conflating trips to Epstein’s private island were unsupported because none of the logs list Clinton on Virgin‑Islands‑bound flights [3] [6].
2. Primary documents and where they can be accessed
The underlying flight logs were filed in civil litigation and are now available in multiple public venues: court exhibits in Giuffre v. Maxwell include flight-log photocopies showing individual entries — for example Exhibit 10 contains an August 2002 record listing Clinton aboard with Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker [5] — and the Department of Justice’s public releases and related archival material have made batches of Epstein flight logs and photographs available online and cited by news organizations [7] [8] [9].
3. How major outlets reported the totals
News outlets and fact‑checkers differ but generally converge on the notion that multiple logs place Clinton aboard Epstein aircraft during the early 2000s: Roll Call and other 2016–2019 analyses cited at least 26 flights or flight segments between 2001 and 2003 [4], the Palm Beach Post summarized Clinton as on Epstein planes for at least 17 flights in 2002–03 while noting logs don’t explain purpose or passenger context [2], and Wikipedia’s summary likewise notes “at least 17 legs” for that timeframe while recording the broader debate about counting methodology [1].
4. Context and limits of the records
The flight logs list passenger names or initials and routes but do not record why trips occurred, who else may have been onboard at specific times, or whether criminal activity coincided with particular flights; multiple outlets and official statements caution that logs alone don’t establish culpability or prove visits to Epstein’s private island, and fact‑checkers have pointed out that none of the available logs list Clinton on Virgin Islands‑bound flights to Little Saint James [2] [3] [6].
5. Practical guidance for researchers
To see the source material, consult the Giuffre v. Maxwell court exhibits hosted and linked by the Department of Justice’s multimedia/court records repository (which includes Exhibit 10 and other flight‑log pages) and review DOJ batches and news organizations that republished these logs and accompanying images; contemporaneous reporting from BBC, Palm Beach Post, Roll Call, and fact‑checking outlets synthesize these files and note the counting differences to be mindful of [5] [7] [8] [4] [10] [3].