Larry Visoski, the longtime chief pilot of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s fleet of helicopters and planes, including the infamous “Lolita Express,” traveled with Epstein across the globe for nearly three decades.
Photos from Visoski’s now-deleted Instagram account likely shed some new light on what Epstein may have been up to over the past few years, detailing Visoski’s flights across the U.S. and to the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico, and the Middle East.
Epstein is not pictured or directly mentioned in Visoski’s social media posts, but many of the planes, helicopters, and islands that appear in the posts belong to Epstein, a registered sex offender who prosecutors allege repeatedly sexually exploited and abused dozens of girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida. Epstein also owns two islands and a ranch in New Mexico.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty.
Thanks to previously released flight logs ranging from December 1997 through November 2005, a fair amount is known about where the jet-setting financier and accused child sex trafficker was flying and who he was accompanied by more than a decade ago. Epstein was joined on those flights by tycoons, celebrities, employees, friends, and politicos, including former President Bill Clinton, who records suggest took at least 27 flights totaling at least six trips on Epstein’s jet, rather than the four trips that he has thus far admitted to.
It is alleged that underage girls were on some flights that Epstein took as well.
Visoski, who has not been charged with any crimes, was deposed in a civil case in 2009, where he recalled Clinton being on at least 20 flights with Epstein. He was also asked whether he remembered Clinton being on the plane with “younger girls.”
“No,” Visoski said.
Less is publicly known about where Epstein has been flying since the mid-2000s, and detailed manifest records are not similarly available. But Visoski’s social media account, where Visoski’s profile name was “Capt Big Dawg”, was reviewed by the Washington Examiner prior to its deletion earlier this week, and it details many of the places that Epstein was likely flying much more recently, ranging from June 2014 through April 2019.
Visoski, who has remained loyal to Epstein over the years, was an avid photographer and used a GoPro to capture some shots as he piloted these flights. Visoski’s captions specifically mention the piloting of a Boeing 727, a Boeing 757, a Gulfstream 550, and a Bell 430 helicopter, and he used hashtags such as #Gucci and #Versace and #AVGeek when showing off a particularly impressive view.
The post that likely spurred Visoski to delete his account was a selfie that he took and posted in late 2016, with then-top Trump presidential transition team member and now counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, at Palm Beach International Airport, which drew attention on Twitter earlier this week.
Visoski, who included #MAGA hashtags on many of his posts, described Conway as “a very Humble and gracious Lady, #kellyanneconway #kellyanne #trump #election2016,” in his caption.
Conway told the Washington Examiner she did not remember taking that specific picture, but allowed people she said were unfamiliar to her to take selfies with her at Palm Beach International after she arrived from New York for meetings with the then president-elect.
Visoski lives in Palm Beach and many of the trips are plane rides or helicopter trips from Miami or Palm Beach International Airport to Epstein’s homes in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
A combination of photographs taken by and comments made by Visoski show repeated trips to St. Thomas and other islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands between 2014 and 2018 and likely 2019 as well; trips to the Exuma chain and Eleuthera in the Bahamas in 2014; a 2015 trip to St. Bart’s in the Caribbean; numerous flights over the Gulf of Mexico and the North Atlantic; a 2014 trip to Seattle, Washington in 2014; a 2015 trip to Manhattan Beach, California; multiple trips to Paris Le Bourget Airport and other locations in Paris, France, in 2015 and 2016; multiple trips to Bitburg Airport in Germany in 2015 and 2016; trips to New York City and other metropolitan airports; trips to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2016 and 2018; a 2015 trip to Albuquerque, New Mexico; a 2019 trip to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico; and a 2016 trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi that is not photographed but Visoski made a brief comment about.
Flight data analyzed by Business Insider earlier this month suggests that Epstein’s planes also took dozens of flights in recent years, including: from Paris, France, to London, England in late January 2018; from Bratislava, Slovakia to Paris, France and from Paris to Nice in late March 2019; from Atlanta to Durango, Mexico in early April 2019; and from Paris, France to Rabat, Morocco in late April 2019.
Thursday the federal judge presiding over Epstein’s case denied him bail, agreeing with prosecutors that the seriousness of his crimes, his mysterious wealth, his international travel, and his possession of a foreign passport with a fake name from the 1980s all make him a threat to the community and a serious flight risk.
“Epstein’s dangerousness is considerable,” U.S. District Judge Richard Berman ruled yesterday.
A more complete social media timeline, with selected captions from Visoski, is provided below. This is not a comprehensive listing of Epstein’s travels.
June 30, 2014 — Flying from Miami to St. Thomas (“Helicopter from Miami to St. Thomas routing” “Bell 430 Heli”)
July 5, 2014 — Flying to an undisclosed location (“been flying her for 17years,. Sad to say we just retired the bird,., but she got replaced by a G550,,, which is like a Cessna in Size,, but the Toys in the G are fun! Take care!”)
July 6, 2014 — Flying to an undisclosed location over the ocean
July 6, 2014 — Bahamas (“Exuma chain! Bahamas low level”)
July 7, 2014 — Flying to an undisclosed location over the ocean
July 8, 2014 — Flying over the Gulf of Mexico
July 13, 2014 — Flying over the North Atlantic
July 22, 2014 — Bahamas (“Eleuthera [Bahamas]”)
July 27, 2014 — Boeing Field, officially King County International Airport, Seattle (“Going home to Seattle”)
Aug. 7, 2014 — Flight Safety Dallas North Learning Center
Aug. 15, 2014 — Flying to an undisclosed location over the ocean
Aug. 19, 2014 — Likely U.S. Virgin Islands (“Island Time”)
Aug. 24, 2014 — Palm Beach, Florida
Sept. 3, 2014 — Cyril E. King International Airport, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Sept. 5, 2014 — Martin County, Florida (“ha, that was in the Hobe Sound local steak house ,, geese I forgot the name.”)
Sept. 6, 2014 — Likely U.S. Virgin Islands (“Island Time”)
Sept. 20, 2014 — St. Thomas
Oct. 8, 2014 — Flying over the ocean
Oct. 8, 2014 — Flying to an unconfirmed location
Oct. 24, 2014 — Islip, New York (“International Jet Interiors”)
Nov. 12, 2014 — Unconfirmed Island
Dec. 9, 2014 — Unconfirmed Island (“Island Time”)
Dec. 23, 2014 — Unconfirmed Island
Jan. 3, 2015 — St. Bart’s in the Caribbean (“Top 10 worst airports to land a plane,. I choose a helicopter., St Bart’s”)
March 2, 2015 — Paris Le Bourget Airport — Le Relais de l’Entrecote Restaurant (“Cumo SE va? Been trying for years to eat here, tonight’s the night! Crew meal LFPB”
March 16, 2015 — Paris Le Bourget Airport
March 22, 2015 — Unconfirmed airport
April 3, 2015 — Unconfirmed airport
April 23, 2015 — Unconfirmed airport
May 6, 2015 — Airport in Florida
June 9, 2015 — Palm Beach Airport
June 14, 2015 — Helicopter flight from South Florida to the Caribbean (“Been flying the Heli from S Fla to Caribbean this week,. 1000 miles in Bell430”)
June 17, 2015 — Helicopter flight from Palm Beach to the Caribbean (“Long day ahead., the Boeing crew fly helicopter PBI to Caribbean., 5 fuel stops ahead,.., Bell430”)
June 22, 2015 — U.S. Virgin Islands
June 29, 2015 — Teterboro Airport, New Jersey
June 30, 2015 — Paris, France
Sept. 1, 2015 — Unconfirmed airport
Sept. 2, 2015 — Flying to an undisclosed location
Sept. 9, 2015 — Albuquerque, New Mexico (“While in ABQ, #lawyerup, #bettercallSaul, #breakingbad, #avgeek, #pilotsforlifeforme”)
Sept. 11, 2015 — Paris, France (“Paris hotel Star Wars elevator”)
Sept. 12, 2015 — Paris, France
Sept. 28, 2015 — Manhattan Beach, California
Oct. 2, 2015 — Manhattan Beach, California
Oct. 7, 2015 — Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nov. 7, 2015 — Unconfirmed airport
Nov. 12, 2015 — Paris, France
Dec. 16, 2015 — Unconfirmed Airport
Dec. 28, 2015 — Bitburg Airport in Germany
Jan. 14, 2016 — San Juan, Puerto Rico (“Blades to the left, blades to the right, I’m stuck in the middle, remote San Juan”)
Feb. 15, 2016 — Unconfirmed Airport
Feb. 17, 2016 — Sushi Seki Restaurant in New York City (“NYC, SushiSeki, it doesn’t get any better”)
Feb. 17, 2016 — Paris , France
March 4, 2016 — Flying to an undisclosed location
March 5, 2016 — Unconfirmed airport
March 16, 2016 — Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey
March 17, 2016 — Flying over the Atlantic Ocean (“Out in the middle of the Atlantic”)
March 17, 2016 — New York City (“roc’n Northeast NYC”)
March 23, 2016 — Daytona, Florida
May 14, 2016 — Paris, France (“Eiffel Tower on a shoulder”)
June 20, 2016 — Flying to an undisclosed location
June 28, 2016 — Miami, Florida
July 8, 2016 — St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Sept. 26, 2016 — Flying to an undisclosed location over the Atlantic Ocean
Sept. 28, 2016 — Bitburg Airport in Germany (“was in Dubai and Abu Dhabi” before this)
Oct. 26, 2016 — Flying to an undisclosed location over the ocean
Dec. 6, 2016 — New York City
Dec. 28, 2016 — Palm Beach International Airport (“Kellyanne, got a chance to meet a very Humble and gracious Lady, #kellyanneconway #kellyanne #trump #election2016”)
Jan. 27, 2017 — Palm Beach International Airport
Feb. 3, 2017 — Palm Beach International Airport [commenter: “POTUS coming to KPBI today”] (“yes, 4:30PM arrival, Atlantic Aviation”)
Feb. 12, 2017 — Flying to an undisclosed location
Feb. 25, 2017 — Palm Beach International Airport
April 7, 2017 — Unconfirmed Airport
April 22, 2017 — Unconfirmed Airport (“For the record, I was in the jump seat”)
July 24, 2017 — Flight Simulator Training Facility in the U.S.
Aug. 31, 2017 — Newly-updated airplane (Gulfstream 550) at Unknown Airport (“First flight in the New Front Office”)
Sept. 23, 2017 — Palm Beach International to Cyril E. King International Airport on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands (“Island Life” “Bell430” “PBI to STT” “All safe in STT, heli and hanger still in 1 piece, a lot of landscape issue, damage, a lot to rebuild, stronger and Better,,, Be safe”)
Oct. 12, 2017 — Flying the Gulfstream 550 to an undisclosed location over the North Atlantic
Dec. 14, 2017 — New York City
Dec. 20, 2017 — St. Thomas Island to Palm Beach International
Jan. 12, 2018 — Unconfirmed airport
Feb. 7, 2018 — Unconfirmed airport
Feb. 15, 2018 — Painted the Gulfstream 550 plane blue
March 27, 2018 — Flying to an undisclosed location
March 31, 2018 — Unconfirmed airport
April 5, 2018 — Flying to an undisclosed location over the North Atlantic
April 29, 2018 — San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín Airport to Cyril E. King International Airport on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands
May 15, 2018 — Unconfirmed airport
Aug.11, 2018 — Cyril E. King International Airport on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Nov. 7, 2018 — Flying to an undisclosed location
Jan. 22, 2019 — Flying across the North Atlantic into Palm Beach
March 1, 2019 — Unconfirmed airport
April 10, 2019 — Cabo San Lucas in Mexico
April 14, 2019 — Cabo San Lucas in Mexico
April 15, 2019 — Unconfirmed airport
