As police investigate Prince Andrew following his arrest, renewed focus falls on Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ private jet and the A-list passengers who flew on it, including Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Naomi Campbell and Kevin Spacey
Jeffrey Epstein (Image: Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
During his previous career as a high-flying financier, paedophile Jeffrey Epstein operated within elite circles, associating with some of the world’s most influential figures. A number of his well-known associates travelled aboard his infamous private aircraft, dubbed the ‘Lolita Express’.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, previously known as Prince Andrew, has faced ongoing questions regarding his association with Epstein, and has repeatedly and emphatically denied any wrongdoing linked to the deceased sex offender. On Thursday (February 19), his 66th birthday, Andrew was arrested and spent the majority of the day in police custody.
Officers searched his temporary Norfolk residence, whilst investigations continue at his previous home, Royal Lodge in Windsor. Multiple police forces have launched enquiries into the former Duke of York.
Government insiders have indicated that once all investigations into Andrew have been completed, they will commence a consultation process to formally remove him from the line of succession – this would necessitate an act of parliament and approval from all 14 Commonwealth realms where Charles serves as head of state.
Prince Andrew was arrested on his 66th birthday on Thursday(Image: Getty Images)
Detectives are currently examining flight records and correspondence, which could potentially increase scrutiny on the discredited former royal if his name emerges on journeys with purported victims, reports the Mirror.
Claims have surfaced suggesting Andrew utilised Epstein’s Boeing 727-100 to transport young women from around the world into Britain, allegedly smuggling them into Buckingham Palace without proper security vetting and using false identities, much to the frustration of palace personnel.
Highlighting that the so-called ‘Lolita Express’ touched down in Britain 90 times spanning the 1990s through to 2018, ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown has now demanded Andrew face police questioning, pressing the Metropolitan Police to revisit its earlier inquiry into Andrew and these young women, in what the former Labour chief has characterised as “by far the biggest scandal of all”.
Travelling aboard Epstein’s aircraft does not necessarily indicate misconduct. Several individuals who have used the private jet have subsequently condemned Epstein.
(Image: Internet Unknown)
Exasperated palace employees were reportedly compelled to covertly bring these young women through palace gates repeatedly over many years, utilising one of the discreet staff entrances. One insider revealed to The Sun: “He would phone the duty office and always say the same thing – ‘Mrs Windsor will be arriving shortly – please let her in and show her up’. They added: “It was so frequent that they used to just roll their eyes and say ‘yes, sir’.
“It went on for years. The royal protection officers hated being assigned Andrew as he was so unpleasant and dismissive.”
Essex Police has confirmed it is currently examining allegations that victims of Epstein were transported through the private terminal at London’s Stansted Airport, with approximately 15 of the 90 flights occurring after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for child sex offences.
Bearing the registration N908JE, the aircraft was predominantly utilised to transport women and girls between Epstein’s lavish properties in New York, the US Virgin Islands, and Palm Beach.
However, there were also frequent journeys to British airports, including smaller airfields near royal residences across England and Scotland. The Mail Online reports that these flights appear to align with documented visits by Epstein to the UK, frequently accompanied by Andrew.
Epstein died in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges(Image: US Department of Justice/AFP via)
While the jet was ostensibly employed for business travel, it’s been alleged that activities within the luxurious cabin were anything but professional, with accounts of a bed fitted specifically for group sex with underage girls, and staff employed to “ensure that minor victims were available for encounters upon his arrival”, according to federal indictments and court documents.
In her explosive 2025 book Nobody’s Girl, Epstein whistleblower Virginia Giuffre recounted a disturbing incident during which the depraved financier brought her aboard the ‘Lolita Express’ to have sex with a mystery friend.
At that moment, she recognised it was an unnamed politician who had raped her brutally just weeks earlier.
As uncertainty persists surrounding these enigmatic journeys, there’s heightened scrutiny of those who travelled aboard the aircraft in the period before the full extent of Epstein’s airborne depravity came to light.
Being named in the Epstein documents doesn’t imply any misconduct, and there’s no suggestion that passengers on Epstein’s aircraft engaged in any wrongdoing.
Bill Clinton
Former US President Bill Clinton(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Former President Bill Clinton, who maintains he had no awareness of Epstein’s “terrible crimes”, was present on no fewer than 17 flights during 2002 and 2003.
Responding to these trips in 2019, Clinton’s spokesperson Angel Urena stated: “In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s aeroplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation.”
Larry Visoski, Epstein’s former pilot who was in his employ, provided testimony in 2021, during which he confirmed that special arrangements would be implemented before Clinton’s flights, to ensure the aircraft appeared “nice”, according to The New York Times.
While questioning Visoski, who served Epstein for over 25 years, solicitor Christian Everdell put it to him: “If he were going to be on the flight, you might be told that information in advance.You’d want to make sure the plane looked nice.”
Visoski subsequently confirmed this was correct. The former president, who left the White House in 2001, travelled to destinations as remote as Siberia, Morocco, China and Armenia, on occasion accompanied by other prominent personalities, amongst them Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey and comedian Chris Tucker.
Sex monster Jeffrey Epstein died in jail(Image: US Department of Justice.)
Multiple outlets, including Business Insider, have reported that in September 2002, the trio journeyed to Africa on a five-day humanitarian trip aimed at raising awareness of HIV/AIDS and supporting the work of the Clinton Foundation.
While Clinton appears frequently throughout the Epstein files, there is no evidence to implicate either him or his wife, Hillary Clinton, in any criminal wrongdoing.
Although the former politician has acknowledged boarding Epstein’s aircraft in the early 2000s for humanitarian purposes, he firmly denies ever visiting ‘Little St. Jeff’s’, the paedophile’s notorious Caribbean island.
Clinton has further maintained that he severed all ties with Epstein some two decades ago.
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell attends Chopard ART Evening at the Martinez on May 23, 2023 in Cannes, France
According to the Palm Beach Post, supermodel Naomi Campbell boarded the ‘Lolita Express’ on five separate occasions in 2001 and 2003.
Two of these flights departed from the U.S. Virgin Islands, whilst a further two were bound for São Paulo, Brazil.
The 55-year-old fashion icon has previously revealed that she first encountered Epstein in 2001, on her 31st birthday, having been introduced through her former boyfriend, Italian businessman Flavio Briatore.
Addressing the association in a 2019 YouTube video, Campbell maintained that she’d been oblivious to Epstein’s offences at the time.
While, in Campbell’s words, Epstein was “always front and centre at Victoria’s Secret fashion shows”, she also viewed him as merely one of the “hundreds of thousands of people that [she’d] stood next to to take a picture”.
Throughout their years circulating within these celebrity-filled social spheres, Campbell allegedly invited Epstein to a birthday celebration in St. Tropez in 2004, a Dolce and Gabbana gathering held in Paris commemorating her 25-year partnership with the luxury label, and a NEON function in Moscow, co-hosted alongside Dasha Zhukova, the then-spouse of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Naomi Campbell has described Epstein’s actions as ‘indefensible'(Image: Getty Images)
Denouncing Epstein’s conduct following its exposure, Campbell declared: “What he’s done is indefensible.
When I heard what he had done, it sickened me to my stomach, just like everybody else, because I’ve had my fair share of sexual predators and thank God I had good people around who protected me from this. ” She continued, “I stand with the victims…. They’re scarred for life. For life.”
According to files disclosed by the Department of Justice (DoJ), the invitations to the Paris and Moscow gatherings were issued in 2010, merely one year following Epstein’s release from custody after admitting guilt to soliciting a minor.
Outlining arrangements for the Dolce occasion in an email, a representative from Campbell’s team noted: “I will be on the door if there are any problems.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s jet, dubbed the Lolita Express (Image: Copyright unknown)
As evidenced in correspondence between Epstein and an unidentified person, the last exchanges between the assistants of Epstein and Campbell occurred in January 2016, and related to Campbell’s request to use Epstein’s aircraft for a journey to Miami.
According to this email thread, on January 21, 2016, Campbell left a message requesting Epstein to contact her about using his aeroplane later that month.
Epstein refused, and the redacted recipient was instructed to inform Campbell that he had to depart the city because of the “weather”.
Several days afterwards, the unnamed recipient sent Epstein the following message: “Naomi has called back twice now, saying she doesn’t have any backup plan, as she really thought from you this would work. Says she has booked the hotel and car and driver…”
The correspondence adds: “She’s wondering if the plane can’t take you to where you are going, then go back and get her to take her to where she needs to be. She’s certainly fretting on this and hopes you will call her.”
Naomi Campbell attends the 17th Annual Harlem’s Fashion Row Fashion Show & Style Awards on September 03, 2024 in New York City(Image: Getty Images)
In recent days, Campbell’s solicitor, Martin Singer, addressed fresh allegations regarding her connection to Epstein. In a statement provided to Black Enterprise, Mr Singer said: “Prior to Epstein’s 2019 arrest in New York, my client knew nothing about his appalling criminal conduct,”
He continued: “If my client had ever encountered any young woman whom she thought was being victimized by Epstein, she would have personally taken immediate action to help her. “
Mr Singer further maintained that Campbell had been residing in Moscow from 2008 to 2013 and that “she had no idea that Epstein was a registered sex offender.”
Kevin Spacey
Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has previously spoken about his reported links to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, with whom he was photographed in 2002 in the Buckingham Palace throne room.
All three had apparently been invited to the palace by the then-Duke of York, and Spacey has categorically denied having any form of relationship with the duo.
He has also maintained that he had never met Epstein and Maxwell before they travelled by private jet to London “with the Clinton Foundation people”, following a humanitarian event.
Kevin Spacey was among those who called for the Epstein Files to be released, tweeting, ‘For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough'(Image: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Speaking about this photograph during a 2024 appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Spacey, 66, revealed: “I didn’t know him. I have never spent any time with him.
“I was with the Clinton Foundation people, that’s who I was with. This Maxwell woman, she was one of many people to sit down next to me in that throne room.
“I have no relationship with her. I had no relationship with him. I mean he’s not my friend. I am not a confidant.
“I’ve never spent time with him.”
He added, “I never went to Jeffrey Epstein’s island. I did not know him, and I never saw him or her after that morning at Buckingham Palace. He didn’t even come to Buckingham Palace, she was only there.”
He recounted: “I have since learned who he is, and I have since been able to go back and find out that the aeroplane that we flew on for this humanitarian mission was owned by Jeffrey Epstein. I didn’t want to be around this guy because I felt he put the president at risk on that trip to South Africa, because there were these young girls. We were like, ‘Who is this guy?'”
Using the social media site X, formerly Twitter, last summer, Spacey urged for the Epstein Files to be made public, posting: “For those of us with nothing to fear, the truth can’t come soon enough.”
Donald Trump
From left, Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000(Image: Getty Images)
On January 8, 2024, US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social claiming: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane”.
Yet the BBC reports that correspondence disclosed by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), dated January 7, 2020, identified Trump as a passenger aboard Epstein’s aircraft on eight occasions between 1993 and 1996.
The correspondence, dispatched by an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York, whose identity has been withheld, states: “Donald Trump travelled on Epstein’s private jet many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware).”
Aviation records reveal that President Trump, now aged 79, made most of these flights to and from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, approximately 12 miles from his previous Manhattan residence. It was at this location that, in July 2019, Epstein was apprehended on sex trafficking charges.
The following month saw Epstein’s death in his New York jail cell, officially determined to be suicide.
On May 15, 1994, Trump apparently travelled to Washington on Epstein’s aircraft, joined by his second wife, Marla Maples, their daughter, Tiffany, then roughly seven months of age, and a childminder.
Jeffrey Epstein (left) and real estate developer Donald Trump as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1997(Image: Getty Images)
On August 14, 1995, Trump departed Palm Beach International for Teterboro, accompanied by his third child, Eric.
One entry also references JE and GM, thought to be abbreviations for Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The relationship between Trump and Epstein has been a subject of considerable public scrutiny in recent years, with the two men frequently pictured together at high-profile social gatherings throughout the ’80s, ’90s and ’00s, prior to Epstein’s horrific crimes being exposed.
In 2002, during a profile interview with New York magazine, POTUS, who has denied visiting Epstein’s island, described the convicted sex offender as a “terrific guy” who “likes to have fun.”
He went on to say, “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do. And many of them are on the younger side.”
A source who witnessed the duo together in the early ’90s told The Washington Post: “They were tight. They were each other’s wingmen.”
In the intervening years, Trump has attempted to separate himself from Epstein, with reports emerging of an alleged dispute over a sought-after Palm Beach property.
President Donald Trump had a ‘falling out’ with Epstein(Image: Getty)
Speaking from the Oval Office the day following Epstein’s arrest, Trump maintained: “I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him. I had a falling out with him. I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years.
“I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”
Meanwhile, during a 2016 interview with Fox News, Trump Organisation attorney Alan Garten declared that The Apprentice star had ‘no relationship’ with Epstein, stating: “They were not friends and they did not socialise together.”
The Irish Mirror has contacted the representatives of Naomi Campbell, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Kevin Spacey, President Donald Trump and Bill Clinton seeking a response.
Want to see more of the stories you love from the Irish Mirror? Making us your preferred source on Google means you’ll get more of our exclusives, top stories and must-read content straight away. To add Irish Mirror as a preferred source, simply click here