Epstein’s former pilot testifies Clinton, Trump, Prince Andrew flew aboard private plane
The pilot, Larry Visoski, said he would typically be given notice if Clinton or high-profile passengers like him would be flying.
He recalled renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman flew to Michigan with Epstein for the Interlochen Center for the Arts summer camp. He said he remembered Prince Andrew, Maine Sen. George Mitchell, Ohio Sen. John Glenn and actor Kevin Spacey on flights.
“In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation,” Clinton spokesman Angel Urena said in 2019.
Maxwell, the British socialite and Epstein’s close confidante, was arrested a year later and has pleaded not guilty to six charges, including conspiracy and sex trafficking.
Pilot testifies he never saw any sexual activity
He testified Maxwell frequently traveled on Epstein’s private jet between 1994 and 2004 and would often facilitate travel plans with Visoski for Epstein. Maxwell was Epstein’s “number two” and was his “go-to person to handle everything else that was not business related,” the pilot testified.
He described his memory of the pair’s relationship as more personal than business-like, but more “couple-ish” than actually romantic. He didn’t remember seeing them kiss or hold hands, he said.
Logging the names of all passengers on Epstein’s private flights was not a priority, but they tried their best to be accurate, Visoski said. For international flights, he had to report an accurate passenger log, he said. If he didn’t know a passenger’s name, he’d notate the passenger by their gender, he said.
On Tuesday, Visoski testified about his memories of Minor Victim-1, who said, as prosecutors have alleged, that she met Epstein and Maxwell at the prestigious arts camp where Epstein was a benefactor for years.
Visoski testified Epstein introduced him to “Jane” on his plane before it took off from Palm Beach sometime in the 1990s.
Visoski said he remembered she appeared at the time to be a “mature woman” with “piercing powder blue eyes.” However, he testified on cross examination that he couldn’t be sure she actually flew on the flight or who else was there, and Maxwell’s defense questioned whether “Jane” ever flew on Epstein’s planes.
“I can’t visualize her sitting in the passenger compartment like I would say President Clinton, it was so long ago,” he said.
Her true first name was notated on flight logs for three flights, but Visoski acknowledged on cross examination that Epstein had an assistant bearing the same first name and without a last name logged, he couldn’t he sure who it was.
When asked on cross examination, Visoski said he didn’t know the ages of passengers he flew but he never thought there to be underaged girls aboard as far as he could tell.
“I never saw any sexual activity, no,” Visoski testified. When asked if he’d seen sex acts with underaged girls he said, “Absolutely not.”
Visoski testified he never saw sex toys, used condoms or clothes strewn about in Epstein’s planes, nor any indication sexual activity took place on the planes.
The cockpit door would be closed during flight, but Epstein would sometimes introduce his guests to Visoski before takeoff, he testified. Epstein also invited the pilots to pass freely through the cabins to use the restroom or get coffee during flights, Visoski said. He also said he wasn’t instructed by anyone as to how he should interact with passengers or other staff members.
He said he kept passenger manifests and flight logs for every flight he flew and would drop off the records to Epstein’s office every so often without keeping copies for himself.
He’d give the records to an assistant but not typically Maxwell.
“Ms. Maxwell had nothing to do with the passenger manifests,” he said.
In addition, Visoski testified that Epstein paid for his two daughters’ education through college and gifted him acreage at the New Mexico ranch where Visoski built himself a home. The pilot noted that it was Epstein’s practice to pay for the schooling of all his employees’ children because he valued higher education. He also acknowledged signing a non-disclosure agreement as a part of his employment.