Sen. Marsha Blackburn demands subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ flight logs

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called on the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday to issue a subpoena against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, with the goal of obtaining a list of passengers that traveled aboard the convicted sex offender’s infamous plane. 

Blackburn, 71, made the demand during a Senate hearing related to the authorization of subpoenas for Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas as part of an ethics probe which the Tennessee Republican decried as a “charade.” 

The senator argued that the American people would be better served knowing more about the potential participants in Epstein’s “horrific conduct.”

“And since we’re in the business of issuing subpoenas now, here are a few more that I’ve filed. A subpoena to Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to provide the flight logs for his private plane,” Blackburn said. “Given the numerous allegations of human trafficking and abuse surrounding Mr. Epstein, we’ve got to identify everyone who could have participated in his horrific conduct.”

The hearing came to a screeching halt, with no subpoenas authorized, following Blackburn’s demand and resistance to the Supreme Court summons’ from other Republicans on the panel. 

“The American people deserve to know the names of every person who participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s human trafficking ring,” Blackburn wrote in an X post. “We need to see his flight logs. I’ve asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to authorize a subpoena to his estate so we can review these documents.”

Epstein, a multimillionaire financier, pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.  He was sentenced to 18 months in jail for the crimes. 

Epstein was busted again in 2019, accused of sexually abusing dozens of young girls in his Upper East Side townhouse and his waterfront mansion in Palm, Beach, Fla., between 2002 and 2005. 

The 66-year-old pedophile was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 and his death was ruled a suicide. He had faced up to 45 years in prison. 

Epstein’s private jet, dubbed the “Lolita Express,” was allegedly used by the sex fiend and his partner, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, to fly A-list celebrities and underage girls around the world and to his private island in the Caribbean. 

Virginia Giuffre, who claims she was one of Epstein’s “sex slaves,” was aboard the custom Boeing 727 at the same time as the United Kingdom’s Prince Andrew, according to a court deposition unsealed soon after Epstein’s death. 

“If we’re going to talk about other countries we’ve got to talk about international travel space or plane space or whatever you want to call it,” Giuffre told an attorney in 2016 when asked where she had sex with Maxwell.  

“It happened all the time on the planes,” she added.

There is no evidence that any of the passengers aboard Epstein’s plane engaged in illegal activity.