Trump Flew on Jeffrey Epstein Jet With Unnamed 20-Year-Old Woman According to Newly Unsealed SDNY Email

A Justice Department email unearthed in the latest Epstein files release says Donald Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein's private jet at least eight times between 1993 and 1996, more times than had previously been reported.

The message, written by a federal prosecutor in January 2020, was among more than 11,000 files spanning nearly 30,000 pages that the Department of Justice (DOJ) released on 23 December 2025.

It states that flight logs list Trump alongside Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and members of Trump's family across a three-year span. The DOJ has said some documents in the broader release contain 'untrue and sensationalist claims' about the president, while it has not specifically disputed the flight-log email.

What the Prosecutor's Email Says

An assistant US attorney with the Southern District of New York (SDNY), whose name was redacted, sent the email on 7 January 2020 to a redacted recipient.

The prosecutor wrote that flight records received on 6 January showed Trump travelled on Epstein's private jet 'many more times than previously has been reported (or that we were aware), including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case.'

The email states Trump 'is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was also present.' He travelled with, among others, Marla Maples, his daughter Tiffany and his son Eric.

The prosecutor noted that on one 1993 flight, 'he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers'. On another, the three listed passengers were Epstein, Trump and a redacted individual who was 20 at the time. The email does not state the individual's relationship to Epstein or the purpose of the flight, and no wrongdoing is alleged against any passenger.

Two further flights included women whom the prosecutor said could be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case. The prosecutor added that the SDNY had 'just finished reviewing the full records (more than 100 pages of very small script) and didn't want any of this to be a surprise down the road.'

Context of a Congressionally Mandated Release

Maxwell, Epstein's longtime associate, was indicted on federal sex-trafficking charges in July 2020 and found guilty in December 2021. She is now serving a 20-year prison sentence, and the 2020 email was drafted before that indictment, flagging Trump's travel history as potentially relevant to the timeframe under scrutiny.

The document surfaced as part of the DOJ's compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law requiring the release of investigative material tied to Epstein. The DOJ faced a 19 December statutory deadline and continued releasing tranches after that date.

Trump and Epstein were friends for years before a falling-out, as has been widely reported, and Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the Epstein investigation. The White House did not comment when the email surfaced, instead referring questions to the DOJ's own statement.

The Justice Department's Pushback

Hours after publishing the tranche, the DOJ posted on X that 'some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election'.

It added that 'the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.'

The DOJ did not specify which particular claims within the release it considered untrue. Separately, officials confirmed that a purported letter from Epstein to convicted sports doctor Larry Nassar included in the same batch had been assessed as fake.

Trump, for his part, complained publicly that other prominent figures photographed near Epstein, 'highly respected bankers and lawyers and others', had 'innocently met' him years earlier and were now being swept up in the scandal.

Notably, the SDNY flight-log email is distinct from the unverified tips the DOJ flagged as dubious, as it is an internal prosecutorial assessment of flight manifests rather than an outside allegation submitted to the FBI.

A Trail of Documents, Not a Verdict

An NBC News review confirmed that the DOJ's December release contained roughly 30,000 pages of records, spanning photographs, personal correspondence and internal emails.

The flight-log email itself surfaced within that broader release on the night of 22 December.

The document does not, on its own, establish any impropriety, as it records who was aboard a private aircraft decades ago and nothing more.

Whether Congress or investigators pursue the redacted names further remains an open question as the Epstein Files Transparency Act continues to force fresh disclosures into public view.

For now, the email provides a detailed account from a federal prosecutor of flight records showing that Trump's travel on Epstein's private jet was more extensive than previously reported. The DOJ, which released the file, continues to say that some material in the wider batch contains false claims it has not identified by name.