The Boeing 727 once owned by disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein still holds grim secrets tied to his dark past.
The aircraft has been grounded at the Stambaugh Aviation facility in Brunswick, Georgia, for the past decade, and the years have clearly taken their toll on both its exterior and interior.
As with everything connected to Epstein — whose vast network and shocking crimes have made him one of the most infamous figures of this century — the “Lolita Express” continues to draw attention. The release of more than three million documents by the Department of Justice earlier this year renewed public interest, putting all of Epstein’s holdings, properties, vehicles, and belongings under scrutiny.
Epstein purchased the plane in 2001, and it transported numerous high‑profile individuals around the world while it was still in use. Nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” prosecutors allege it was also used to traffic his young victims between countries.
The 133‑foot Boeing 727 once featured a kitchen, two bathrooms, and three separate seating areas in its heyday. But now, eight years after Epstein sold it prior to his 2019 arrest, new photos and video footage reveal its severe state of decay.
The New York Post was granted rare access to the aircraft, which is now reportedly overrun with “insects and mildew.” The outlet also noted several “disturbing” items left behind. Reporter Georgia Worrell described being met with a “nose‑curdling musty stench” upon stepping onboard. She found “moldy shaving cream cans, used toothbrushes and orange‑and‑yellow hair ties,” along with baby lotion and baby powder in bathroom cabinets, a disassembled satellite phone hidden in a nightstand, and dirty towels and paper napkins bearing Epstein’s initials.
In the aircraft’s bedroom, the duvet is now infested with insects. A pair of glasses sits on the nightstand — the same one concealing the satellite phone — near three emergency air masks hanging from the ceiling.
The Post reported that the bed set and padded floors were installed so Epstein and his guests could have sex mid‑flight. Several of his victims have previously stated that Epstein committed acts of sexual abuse on the plane.
Beyond the bedroom, a doorless opening leads to a sitting room decorated with red crushed velvet covering the walls, a couch, and two armchairs. The owner of the boneyard where the plane now sits told the New York Post that it will never fly again.
“It’s in a significantly degraded condition. It’s sat there for 10 years, it has no engines… any airplane in that degraded of a condition would never fly again,” he said.
He also revealed that the aircraft was originally supposed to be “cut up” and scrapped after being abandoned, though those plans were never carried out.
