26 Flights, Four Trips, One Question: What Did Bill Clinton Know About Jeffrey Epstein?

Bill Clinton flew on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet at least 26 times between 2002 and 2003, with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell aboard. A 2020 internal email between federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York shows them cross-referencing Clinton's trips with Epstein against a victim's account of assault in New Mexico — using "the Africa trip with Epstein and President Clinton" as a reference point to place the victim at the scene [5]. An FBI intake form from the same year logs unverified claims about recordings involving "President Bill Clinton, and President Donald Trump" under an active child sex trafficking case number [6]. Epstein used Clinton's name to intimidate at least one victim into silence, according to sworn court testimony [16]. And Clinton's name appears in Epstein's personal address book alongside phone numbers and a handwritten birthday message [13][15].

No Epstein survivor has accused Clinton of sexual misconduct. Virginia Giuffre said in a 2016 deposition that she "saw no evidence" Clinton was interested in the young women around Epstein [4]. Clinton's office says the trips were charitable missions for the Clinton Foundation and that he cut ties years before Epstein was first charged [7]. But the government's own files — over 20 documents across six DOJ volumes — show that Clinton was deeper inside Epstein's orbit than any public statement has acknowledged, and that federal investigators were still examining those connections a year after Epstein's death.

Clinton is scheduled to testify under oath before the House Oversight Committee on February 27, 2026. These are the documents he will be asked about. The findings below are based on the currently processed DOJ corpus, which continues to grow as new volumes are released.

The flight logs are the backbone of the Clinton-Epstein story, and they are the most misunderstood piece of evidence in the entire case. Clinton's spokesman has consistently acknowledged four trips on Epstein's plane — to Europe, Asia, and Africa — all related to Clinton Foundation work [7]. Media reports citing the actual flight manifests count 26 individual flight segments across those trips, because each multi-stop journey included multiple takeoffs and landings [3].

A sworn deposition from Epstein's pilot, filed in Doe v. Indyke (20 Civ. 484, SDNY), confirms the pilot's practice of recording passenger names on flight logs when known, and generic descriptions ('1 Male,' '1 Female') when not [8]. At the Maxwell criminal trial in November 2021, pilot Larry Visoski testified under oath that Clinton, Trump, and Prince Andrew all flew on Epstein's planes [9]. The passenger manifests released by DOJ show Epstein's aircraft (N212JE and N415LM, registered to Plan D, LLC) operating regularly between Teterboro, New Jersey and West Palm Beach, Florida, with international legs to Paris, St. Thomas, and Africa [10].

The critical question is not how many times Clinton flew. It is who else was on those planes and what was happening at the destinations. The Africa trip in September 2002 included Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Ghislaine Maxwell, Clinton aide Doug Band, and Chauntae Davies [7]. The last documented Clinton flight was in November 2003. Clinton's office says he cut ties before Epstein was first charged in 2006.

The most significant Clinton-related document in the DOJ release is not a flight log. It is an email chain between Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the Southern District of New York, dated March 29–31, 2020, discussing flight records and a victim's account of assault [5].

The email begins with one SDNY prosecutor asking a colleague about a line in an internal case update memo: "flight records do reflect at least one trip that [redacted] took with Epstein to New Mexico during the general time period in 2002 when [redacted] recalls the assault occurring." The prosecutor then lists the specific flights: July 17, SAF (Santa Fe) to TEB (Teterboro); August 5, TEB to SAF; August 17, SAF to TEB. The responding prosecutor confirms: "Yep, the August flights are what I was referring to. [Redacted] recalled the NM trip was sometime after [redacted] returned from the Africa trip with Epstein and President Clinton." [5]

This is not an allegation against Clinton. The victim names are redacted, and the assault allegation is directed at Epstein, not Clinton. But the email establishes three facts: (1) federal prosecutors in 2020 were using Clinton's trips with Epstein as temporal markers to place victims at specific locations; (2) the Africa trip was common knowledge inside the SDNY investigation; and (3) at least one victim's account of assault in New Mexico was being cross-referenced against Clinton-Epstein flight records. The prosecutors were mapping the same flights that Clinton's office has acknowledged.

On August 20, 2020, the FBI National Threat Operations Center received a call that was cataloged as Case ID 50D-NY-3027571, under the subject line "EPSTEIN, JEFFREY: CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING." The intake form documents claims from a caller who described contact with an Epstein victim. The caller alleged that Epstein's network had "films of men who were recorded" and that "these men are prominent figures such as Epstein, President Bill Clinton, and President Donald Trump. Maxwell is also on the tapes." The caller also referenced Epstein's relationship with Leslie Wexner and alleged Epstein had been "pardoned by a U.S. President" [6].

This document requires careful handling. FBI intake forms record allegations as received — they are not verified findings. The Bureau catalogs tips from the public as a matter of routine, and inclusion in an intake form does not constitute corroboration. No evidence has surfaced publicly that such recordings exist. Clinton has denied all allegations of misconduct. Trump has denied all allegations of misconduct. But the document is significant for a different reason: it shows that as late as August 2020, the FBI was still receiving and formally logging allegations connecting Clinton to Epstein's operations under an active child sex trafficking case number. The investigation was not closed.

Among the DOJ files is a document containing a photograph of Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell posing together as they boarded Epstein's plane. The caption, preserved in the file, reads: "Clinton and Ghislaine were pictured posing together as they boarded Epstein's plane." The same document references an Epstein survivor and an article about "Bill Clinton's neck massaged by Jeffrey Epstein victim" — a reference to Chauntae Davies, who later described giving Clinton a neck massage on the Africa trip at Epstein's suggestion [11].

Davies has publicly stated that nothing sexual occurred between her and Clinton. She described the neck massage as occurring in public view on the plane. But the photograph and the associated file were preserved in the FBI's evidence collection and later released under the File Transparency Act, indicating that investigators considered Clinton's proximity to Epstein's associates and victims relevant to the broader case file [11][12].

The Maxwell trial grand jury presentation (June 29, 2020) includes photographs of Maxwell on Epstein's aircraft and with Epstein at social events — the same social orbit Clinton traveled in during 2002-2003 [9]. These images were shown to the grand jury that indicted Maxwell on sex trafficking charges.

Epstein's contacts book — the so-called "Black Book" containing over 1,500 names — included entries for Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton with phone numbers and addresses. The book was first revealed after Epstein's former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez attempted to sell it for $50,000 to what turned out to be an undercover FBI operation. Rodriguez called it a "golden nugget" and was later sentenced to 18 months for obstruction of justice [13][14].

Separately, a 2003 birthday album compiled for Epstein's 50th birthday contained what appears to be a handwritten message from Clinton praising Epstein's "childlike curiosity." This document was released by the House Oversight Committee [15]. FBI investigation files detail Rodriguez's arrest and the significance of the address book as evidence of Epstein's network of contacts spanning business, politics, and entertainment [14].

The address book establishes that Clinton was integrated into Epstein's contact network at a level of personal access — not merely as a fellow traveler on charitable trips. Multiple entries, personal notes, and the birthday message suggest a social familiarity that extended beyond the four foundation-related trips Clinton's office has acknowledged.

On August 27, 2019, seventeen days after Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Judge Richard M. Berman convened a hearing in the Southern District of New York to allow victims to speak. The transcript runs 86 pages. Multiple women described years of abuse, manipulation, and terror. One victim testified that Epstein told her "Mr. Epstein knew a lot of powerful people, including Bill Clinton, and that if I didn't do what Mr. Epstein wanted, I would not be able to have any job in the industry" [16].

This is a victim describing Clinton's name being weaponized by Epstein as a threat — not an accusation of misconduct by Clinton himself. It establishes that Clinton's association with Epstein had operational value: Epstein used Clinton's name to intimidate victims into compliance. Whether Clinton knew his name was being used this way is unknown.

Virginia Giuffre's deposition testimony, unsealed in January 2024, contains the most detailed account from a victim who observed Clinton in Epstein's orbit. She described dining with Clinton on what she recalled as Epstein's island, with Jeffrey at the head of the table and Bill at his left [4]. But she repeatedly stated she saw no evidence of sexual misconduct by Clinton. In a separate section of unsealed documents, accuser Johanna Sjoberg testified that Epstein told her "Clinton likes them young, referring to girls" [17] — a statement attributed to Epstein, not a firsthand accusation. Clinton has denied all such characterizations.

The Clinton references in the DOJ corpus extend beyond flights and victim statements. FBI case file 31E-MM-108062 contains MetroPCS call detail records from 2006, labeled "DO NOT DESTROY," showing extensive communications from numbers associated with Epstein's network. The file runs 100 pages and includes calls to numbers associated with multiple high-profile individuals [18]. Separately, confidential email logs from Apple iPhone devices extracted during the investigation include communications referencing meetings, travel, and financial arrangements involving Epstein and associates [19].

The House Oversight investigation files (TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019352) detail the broader web: Epstein's $100,000 donation to Ballet Florida, campaign contributions exceeding $100,000 to Democratic candidates, a $90,000 donation to Palm Beach Police that was later returned, and connections to political donors including John Kerry and Hillary Clinton [14]. FBI and Palm Beach Police files document evidence of private investigators posing as police to intimidate witnesses, surveillance of victims, and systematic cash payments to minors — the operational infrastructure of the trafficking network that Clinton's travel placed him adjacent to [20][21].

The call records, email logs, and financial documents do not implicate Clinton in criminal conduct. They establish the scope and sophistication of Epstein's network during the period Clinton was associated with it. The question facing the House Oversight Committee is not whether Clinton committed a crime — no evidence in the released files supports that conclusion — but what Clinton observed, what he was told, and whether the full extent of his contacts with Epstein's network has been disclosed.

The documents raise questions they cannot answer. Clinton's former aide Doug Band told Vanity Fair in 2020 that Clinton visited Epstein's private island in January 2003 [22]. Clinton's office denied it. Maxwell told DOJ interviewers that she was "sure" Clinton "absolutely never went" to the island [23]. No flight log entry released to date shows a Clinton flight to St. Thomas or the U.S. Virgin Islands. The question remains unresolved.

The FBI intake form's allegations about recordings are unverified. No physical evidence of such recordings has been publicly disclosed or referenced in any court filing. The call detail records are heavily redacted. The email logs lack sufficient OCR quality to confirm specific Clinton-related content beyond the metadata already cataloged.

Clinton has not been accused of wrongdoing by any Epstein survivor in any legal proceeding. He has not been charged with any crime. His scheduled February 27, 2026 testimony before the House Oversight Committee — after months of resisting subpoenas and demanding a public hearing format — will be the first time he answers questions under oath about these documents [24][25].

These findings are based on the DOJ File Transparency Act corpus as currently processed. Additional unprocessed documents may add context, contradiction, or new evidence as the full release continues. The files linked below are the government's own records. Read them.