From Bill Clinton to Naomi Campbell: Here are some of the famous people who have flown on Jeffrey Epstein s private plane, which has been dubbed the Lolita Express
Other former passengers include the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who has defended Epstein in court; Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president; the supermodel Naomi Campbell; and the scientist Steven Pinker, according to flight logs of the jet obtained by Gawker in 2015.
Jeffrey Epstein’s pilot reveals names of Hollywood stars who flew on his plane
Lawrence Paul Visoski named Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker on the stand in court
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Jeffrey Epstein’s former pilot Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr. took the stand Tuesday in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial.
Visoski, who worked for the late convicted sex offender between 1991 and 2019, was questioned by Maxwell’s defense attorney and revealed a laundry list of celebrities who were allegedly guests on Epstein’s private plane.
It’s been alleged that Epstein used his private plane to fly teenage girls to his private island, his New Mexico ranch, and his New York City townhouse.
Meanwhile, Maxwell is being accused of recruiting and grooming girls for Epstein to sexually abuse from 1994 to at least 2004. She denies the charges.
The list of celebs, embroiled in their own, independent scandals, includes the following names:
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey was a passenger on Epstein’s private place. (Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage)
Visoski said actor Kevin Spacey was a passenger on Epstein’s plane.
Separately, Spacey has been accused of sexually assaulting minors in multiple lawsuits. One was filed by actor Anthony Rapp and another plaintiff who both allege the Oscar-winner sexually assaulted them in separate incidents when they were 14.
Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker was said to be a guest on Epstein’s plane. (Reuters)
Comedian and actor Chris Tucker was once aboard Epstein’s plane, according to Visoski’s testimony.
In 2005, Tucker testified in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial and called the accuser “cunning.” Tucker was called to the stand by Jackson’s defense team.
“He was really smart and he was cunning at times, and his brother . . . was definitely cunning,” Tucker said of the young boy at the time. Jackson was later acquitted.
Prince Andrew
Britain’s Prince Andrew has been accused of sexual assault. (Steve Parsons/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Britain’s Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth’s second son, was listed as a passenger on Epstein’s jet.
Virginia Giuffre, who says she was flown around on Epstein’s plane with Maxwell when she was a teenager, claims she was sexually assaulted by Prince Andrew. The 61-year-old British family member denies the allegation.
Visoski also named former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, Senators George Mitchell and John Glenn, and legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman as passengers.
Asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey where Maxwell stood in the hierarchy of Epstein’s world, Visoski said Maxwell “was the Number 2.” He added that “Epstein was the big Number 1.”
That testimony supported what Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz told jurors in her opening statement Monday: Epstein and Maxwell were “partners in crime.”
If you or someone you know is suffering from abuse, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
Fox News’ Marta Dhanis and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
From Bill Clinton to Naomi Campbell: Here are some of the famous people who have flown on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane, which has been dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’
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- The convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hosted scores of famous people on his private plane, dubbed the “Lolita Express.”
- Passengers included former President Bill Clinton, the actor Kevin Spacey, the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and the supermodel Naomi Campbell.
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The financier Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender facing federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy, can be linked to a slew of famous people. Now, US prosecutors are asking for those who rode on his private jet, dubbed the “Lolita Express,” to come forward with information about his conduct.
The names listed in Epstein’s “black book,” first reported on by Gawker in 2015, are far-flung and include President Donald Trump, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Ted Kennedy, Alec Baldwin, and Courtney Love. (The president — who once called Epstein a “terrific guy” who “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side” — said on Tuesday that the two haven’t spoken in 15 years.)
But who exactly rode in Epstein’s private passenger jet?
Well, former President Bill Clinton, for one, was a “Lolita Express” passenger, according to flight logs obtained by Fox News in 2016. Those records show that Clinton took at least 26 trips aboard the private vessel from 2001 to 2003, traveling with fellow passengers, who were identified with their initials or first names, including the name “Tatiana,” according to Fox News.
Epstein also financed a private plane that took Clinton, the actor Kevin Spacey, and the comedian Chris Tucker to Africa to tour HIV/AIDS project sites, according to a 2002 New York magazine profile on Epstein that cited Page Six. A 2003 Vanity Fair profile of Epstein also said that the supermarket magnate Ron Burkle and the sports and entertainment agent Casey Wasserman, the grandson of the Hollywood mogul Lew Wasserman, were on that trip.
Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, told The Associated Press that the former president took four trips on Epstein’s plane between 2002 and 2003, with staff and Secret Service always onboard. He added that Clinton “knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York . He’s not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade, and has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.”
Other former passengers include the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who has defended Epstein in court; Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president; the supermodel Naomi Campbell; and the scientist Steven Pinker, according to flight logs of the jet obtained by Gawker in 2015.
In the Vanity Fair piece, Dershowitz told the magazine, “I’m on my 20th book … The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey.” In 2015, however, he relayed to The American Lawyer that he was an Epstein acquaintance, describing the relationship as “entirely professional.”
For those who rode on Epstein’s private plane, “you would much rather be visiting the Department of Justice and engaging a conversation about what you saw rather than making the DoJ find you,” Jacob Frenkel, a former federal prosecutor, told Bloomberg. “There’s a much greater potential for influencing the parameters of an interview and the scope of cooperation by going in voluntarily than becoming a compulsory guest.”
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