Flight logs reveal many trips Bill Clinton and Alan Dershowitz took on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's private jet with anonymous women
Just
released flight records show Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has
been flying with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on the financier's
private jet dubbed the 'Lolita Express' since as early as 1997, despite
public statements that they were only acquaintances.
The
high-profile lawyer has been distancing himself from Epstein ever since
a young woman named Virginia Roberts filed a lawsuit claiming she was
recruited to work as a 'sex slave' for Epstein when she was just 15,
naming both Dershowitz and Prince Andrew as two of her molesters.
The flight records, obtained by Gawker,
also show former President Bill Clinton rode on Epstein's jet at least
11 times, and often with two of Epstein's female associates believed to
have provided the dozens of underage girls to their boss and his
well-connected friends.
New flight
logs show Harvard law profession Alan Dershowitz (left) and former
President Bill Clinton (right) flew several times on pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein's private plane
Together: Virginia Roberts says she
was recruited to work as a sex slave for Epstein when she was just 15,
and has named Dershowitz and Prince Andrew as two of the men she was
forced to have sex with. Roberts pictured with the Duke of York
According
to court documents, Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen and
socialite Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly found and groomed the underage
girls to pimp out to Epstein and his friends. Kellen received immunity
for her part in the ring during Epstein's court case in the mid-2000s,
while Maxwell was never charged and has furiously denied involvement.
In
court filings, Roberts maintains that she never had sexual relations
with Clinton - or knew of him taking an interest in any of Epstein's
other 'massage' girls - though he was sometimes present on the banker's
private Caribbean island during her years of work.
On
Thursday, Dershowitz appeared on the Today show to emphatically deny
claims he had sex with then-underage Roberts, saying she was 'making the
whole thing up'.
'I
was never in the presence of a single underage woman,' he said. 'I
never saw [Epstein] doing anything improper. I was not a witness. I was
not a participant. And I will prove it.'
On
Wednesday, Roberts lodged fresh documents in Florida detailing the
alleged abuse she suffered at the Duke of York's hands, including how
she had an orgy with him and eight other young girls.
But
on Thursday, Dershowitz said that, while Roberts claims she had sex
with him at Epstein's Caribbean Island and his New Mexico ranch, he had
only ever been there briefly with his wife and daughter.
Lashing out: Lawyer Alan Dershowitz appeared on the Today show on Thursday to slam claims that he had sex with Roberts
He
claims that the third accusation - that he had sex with Roberts on a
private plane - is false and that flight manifests will prove he was
never aboard the plane with her.
'I've
ever seen her and I've never met her,' he insisted. 'She is
categorically lying and making the whole thing up... This is Pinocchio's
nose growing longer and longer.'
He
insisted that his relationship with Epstein had been entirely
'academic' and that he had only ever met with him in the presence of
dignitaries and professors. He told the American Lawyer that reports
that the two were 'chummy' were 'a total bum rap'.
While
Epstein did donate to Dershowitz's university in 2003, flight records
show that their familiarity goes all the way back to December 1997 when
the lawyer first rode on his jet from Palm Beach, Florida to New
Jersey's Teterboro Airport with Epstein's assistant Maxwell and a slew
of woman identified without their last names on the flight log. Their
names were simply jotted down as 'Hazel', 'Claire' and one other
anonymous 'female'.
Young: Virginia Roberts (left) is currently in the middle of a high-profile lawsuit against Epstein (right)
When
confronted with the flight information by Gawker, Dershowitz admitted
that he had known Epstein since 1997 and rode on the banker's jet to
attend Limited Brands CEO Les Wexner's 60th birthday.
And
the ride up to Wexner's birthday wasn't just a one off thing. The logs
show Dershowitz continued to fly on Epstein's plane including a October
1998 flight from Massachusetts to New Jersey and a 1999 trip from New
Jersey to Martha's Vineyard. A 2005 jaunt from Massachusetts to Montreal
shows Dershowitz traveled with Epstein, a woman named 'Tatianna' and
others.
Despite
telling Gawker that he has a 'very clear, unequivocal recollection' of
never being on a plane with 'young women' he has a hard time explaining
who the single-named females are who scatter the flight logs.
He
said he doesn't know who 'Hazel' or 'Claire' were, and that 'Tatianna'
may have been a twenty-something woman who was friends with Epstein's
girlfriend, but that he never flew with her.
And
he also finds it hard to explain why his wife doesn't appear to join
him on the flights, who he publicly said accompanies him nearly
everywhere in statements issued in the wake of the lawsuit.
Support: Dershowitz (left) previously
said that his wife Carolyn (right) accompanies him everywhere but she is
not seen on the flight manifests released today
'She
travels with me all over. On occasion, she's working or travels
separately. I travel with her almost all the time, not all the time,' he
told Gawker. 'I have a very clear, unequivocal recollection that I was
never on a plane with any young women, period.'
It
should be noted though that flight records are kept by pilots mostly to
keep time, and could contain inaccuracies as to passengers.
Further
discrediting Dershowitz's claim not to be close with Epstein is a
Vanity Fair story from 2003 in which he says that he would stand by
Epstein, even if he filed for bankruptcy.
'Absolutely.
I would be as interested in him as a friend if we had hamburgers on the
boardwalk in Coney Island and talked about his ideas,' he told the
magazine.
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