More than 2,000 flights to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island that nobody knew about before have been found by researchers looking through old flight records. The new discovery is making people ask more questions about the dead billionaire who abused children and the rich, powerful people who visited his island.
According to Unilad, a company called Zalingo Data Refinery spent months going through flight records to find planes that flew to Little Saint James, a small island in the US Virgin Islands. Epstein bought this island in the 1990s and used it as a place to commit crimes against women and girls.
Women who survived Epstein’s abuse say he brought young women from different countries to the island. They were told to give massages and hang out at parties with important guests. Many of these women say they were then sexually assaulted and raped. Looking at flights from 1995 to 2007, when Epstein got convicted for soliciting a child, researchers found around 5,000 trips to the island.
The weird jump in flights that got everyone talking
They also found 1,089 flight paths that were never known about before. Most of these flights came from big cities with major banks and places where rich people keep their private jets. The researchers say the way these flights were organized is “too deliberate to ignore.”
“Analysis of 5,253 flights reveals concentrated origin patterns with significant clustering around specific geographic hubs,” Zalingo said, as per Unilad. “The data shows a network primarily originating from major financial centers and private aviation hubs rather than distributed locations.”
After Epstein got convicted in 2007 and everyone knew he was a pedophile, way fewer planes went to his island. People who used to visit him wanted to stay away. From 2008 to 2015, only 37 flights went there in total. Most years had less than six trips.
But then in 2015, flights suddenly went up to 13 for that year. This jump happened right after Virginia Giuffre, who survived Epstein’s abuse, started telling the public about powerful men connected to him.
She said Epstein made her have sex with a prime minister she did not name, Prince Andrew, and Epstein’s own lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Despite Epstein’s complicated relationship with Trump, there are still lots of unanswered questions about how they knew each other.
What really got researchers worried was where these 2015 flights came from. Epstein’s main houses were in New York and Florida, but a lot of these planes were flying in from the West Coast instead. Zalingo thinks this might mean someone was moving important papers or other evidence off the island to hide it somewhere else.
They said the timing and where the flights came from show “a coordinated effort to move or secure sensitive material.”
The man who runs Zalingo Data Refinery said being a dad made him want to look into this case because it really upset him. He talked about how the American government is not sharing all the information they have, saying “the world has the right to know what is going on, why are these people hiding behind anonymity.”
There might be some answers coming soon. The House of Representatives voted to release thousands of emails and papers about Epstein, and some of them mention Donald Trump. But concerns about Trump’s new Epstein investigation have come up from some politicians. The papers still need to be approved by the Senate and by Trump himself before anyone can read them. Nobody knows yet if these documents will explain the weird flight patterns or what was happening on the island in 2015.
Published: Nov 19, 2025 02:45 pm