Question
How can members of the public access Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs?
Answer
Epstein’s flight logs are available through several channels. They are not a single unified document but rather a collection of records produced in discovery in civil litigation, entered as trial exhibits in the Maxwell case, and reported on in journalism.
Court exhibit filings: The flight logs were entered as exhibits in the federal criminal trial of Ghislaine Maxwell (United States v. Maxwell, SDNY 2021). Court exhibits from federal criminal trials are generally accessible through the federal court’s PACER electronic filing system. Accessing PACER requires registration and charges per-page fees, but the flight log exhibits can be located by searching the Maxwell docket.
Internet Archive: Various researchers and journalists have uploaded PDFs of the flight logs to archive.org, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and document repository. Searching “Epstein flight logs” on archive.org returns multiple versions.
Direct journalism links: The Miami Herald, which published the most comprehensive reporting on the logs in connection with Julie K. Brown’s “Perversion of Justice” series (2018), made certain documents available. The Herald’s ongoing coverage includes linked source documents.
Virginia Giuffre civil case documents: The 2024 unsealing of documents from Giuffre v. Maxwell included flight logs and passenger manifests. These were widely distributed by news organizations and are archived in multiple locations.
What the logs show: The logs record aircraft tail numbers, departure and arrival airports, dates, and the names of passengers logged by pilots. They do not record everything that happened on flights or at destinations. Some flights listed passengers by name; others recorded fewer details. Interpreting the logs requires understanding aviation log conventions — not every person on a flight was necessarily trafficked, and not every victim appears by name.
Sources
Federal court PACER system (pacer.gov); Internet Archive (archive.org); Miami Herald “Perversion of Justice” series (2018); Maxwell trial exhibit index; coverage of 2024 document unsealing.