The black book and the flight logs

The “little black book” is a contact directory kept by Epstein’s household, with names, homes and phone numbers of politicians, royals, models, scientists and socialites. His former butler Alfredo Rodriguez kept a copy, circled names he thought were important and called it the “holy grail.” In 2009 he tried to sell it for $50,000 to someone who turned out to be an FBI agent and went to prison. [1][3]

Gawker published it in 2015. Many people listed say they barely knew Epstein or that the entry came from Maxwell’s social life. Rodriguez’s circles show what he thought; nobody knows his criteria. [1][2]

The best-known logs were kept by pilot David Rodgers and cover flights from the 1990s into the 2000s. They list passenger names or initials and airports. Bill Clinton appears on 26 legs in 2002 and 2003 on foundation trips; Donald Trump on several flights in the 1990s, by a prosecutor’s count at least eight. Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz and many others appear too. [1][3]

Pilot Larry Visoski testified at Maxwell’s trial that he flew Clinton and Trump and never saw sexual activity on board. The logs are incomplete: other pilots and aircraft existed, many passengers are listed only by initials or as “female,” and helicopter trips to the island are poorly recorded. The plane was nicknamed the “Lolita Express” by tabloids; the logs alone cannot show what happened on board. [2][1]