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- Business Insider has compiled a dataset of every known flight made by Jeffrey Epstein's private jets. The sex offender owned a Gulfstream IV, a Gulfstream GV-SP, and a Boeing 727 nicknamed the "Lolita Express."
- Business Insider combined flight manifests unsealed in court with signal data associated with Epstein's jets and flight records provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, revealing at least 2,618 trips made by the aircraft between 1995 and Epstein's arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges in July 2019.
- Passengers on Epstein's jets included upper-crust contacts in his infamous little black book, as well as public figures from Donald Trump and Bill Clinton to supermodel Naomi Campbell and astronaut John Glenn.
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UPDATE (11/29/2021): After this article was published, Insider obtained additional flights linked to Jeffrey Epstein's private jets through a Freedom of Information Act filed with the Federal Aviation Administration. We have updated this article and database accordingly, bringing the total number of known flights from 1,914 to 2,618.
Between 1995 and his arrest on sex-trafficking charges on July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein flew prolifically aboard his fleet of private planes, often in the company of celebrities, statesmen, and girls.
Business Insider has compiled, transcribed, and tabulated every known flight taken by the sex offender's jets — more than 2,500 in total — and published them in a searchable format for the first time.
Since Gawker first published an incomplete trove of Epstein's flight logs in 2015, the financier's private jets have been targets of widespread interest, particularly the "Lolita Express," a nickname given to Epstein's Boeing 727 by Virgin Islands locals. In addition to the 727 airliner, public records show that Epstein owned three luxury Gulfstream jets, one of which was sold in 2013. .
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In 2019, Business Insider reviewed the ADS-B signals, a type of flight-tracking data based on a network of receivers around the world, associated with each Gulfstream and found that the planes had traveled frequently before Epstein's arrest — and made a mysterious two-day trip to Saudi Arabia on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.
Many of the late sex offender's crimes, and the extent to which coconspirators were involved, remain obscure.
See also: There are 1,510 people in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. Now you can search them all for the first time.
Business Insider's database of flights includes all known flight records of Epstein's private jets, comprising both flight manifests kept by the financier's pilots, ADS-B data associated with his airliners, and flight records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the Federal Aviation Administration.
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The flight manifests, unsealed in August in a defamation case brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre against the longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, begin on November 17, 1995, and end on August 7, 2013. They include pilots' notes showing origin and destination airports and the passengers on each flight. Flights traced from ADS-B data begin on June 9, 2016, and end with Epstein's arrest on July 6, 2019. They do not include any information on whom may have been aboard.
Spelling mistakes, where obvious, were corrected from the original records, and illegible names of passengers were denoted with question marks. Similarly, ambiguous flights with incomplete signal data were noted in the database. Approximately 400 training, test, and simulator flights from the pilots' logbooks were removed but are viewable in the original documents.
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Over the course of 2,618 flights, Epstein's jets traveled to every continent except Australia and Antarctica. Most often, they flew between areas where Epstein owned homes: New York, the US Virgin Islands, Paris, New Mexico, and Palm Beach, Florida.
They traveled most prolifically in the early aughts, making 906 flights — more than a third of the total flights compiled by Insider — between 2001 and 2006.
Jeffrey Epstein's most frequent flights
Passengers on Epstein's jets were as varied as the mishmash of high-society contacts in his address book. Donald Trump, whose name was circled in Epstein's address book, appeared on one flight, as did astronaut John Glenn, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, and Bill Clinton's national security adviser Sandy Berger. As for Clinton, the former US president flew on Epstein's jets 26 times — including 11 flights with the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to raise awareness of AIDS in Africa.
Epstein himself was listed as a passenger on at least 1,098 flights. Maxwell and Sarah Kellen, both of whom prosecutors allege procured underage girls for Epstein to abuse, appeared on 520 and 350 flights, respectively. Another frequent flier, the socialite and doctor Eva Andersson-Dubin, flew at least three dozen times on Epstein's planes, occasionally in the company of her husband, the billionaire Glenn Dubin, children, and nanny. Andersson-Dubin, whose daughter once referred to Epstein as "Uncle Jeff," dated the financier for 11 years but has not been accused of any crimes.
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