KEY POINTS
  • A federal appeals court unseals more than 2,000 of pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier charged with child sex trafficking, and his alleged procurer of underage girls, Ghislaine Maxwell.
  • The documents are part of a defamation lawsuit that Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre filed against Maxwell years ago.
  • The documents include one containing flights records showing that President Donald Trump flew on Epstein's private plane in 1997, and another in which Giuffre, says Maxwell directed her to have sex with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and other prominent people. 
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefiting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on March 15, 2005.

A federal appeals court on Friday unsealed nearly 2,000 pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier charged with child sex trafficking, and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend and his alleged procurer of underage girls.

The documents include one containing flight records showing that President Donald Trump flew on Epstein's private plane in January 1997, from a Palm Beach, Florida, airport to Newark, New Jersey.