House Oversight Republicans just unleashed another tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files Wednesday (November 13, 2025), and the headline-grabbing nugget is a 2019 email chain where Epstein himself insisted former President Bill Clinton “never came to the island” — Little St. James, the infamous “Pedophile Island” where dozens of underage girls were allegedly trafficked and abused.

In the emails, first reported by Fox News, Epstein wrote to an unidentified recipient pushing back on media reports: “President Clinton was never on the island. He flew on the plane a few times but always to Europe or Asia. Never here.” He added: “I have the flight logs to prove it.”

The release — part of Chairman James Comer’s ongoing probe into Epstein’s network — includes 459 pages of previously sealed communications seized by the FBI in 2019. Republicans say the documents show how Epstein “weaponized” his connections to the powerful for protection.

But here’s where it gets messy: Clinton’s own Secret Service flight manifests (unsealed in 2024 Virginia Giuffre litigation) show the former president took at least 26 trips on Epstein’s private jet, the “Lolita Express,” between 2002 and 2003. Four of those flights had no Secret Service detail — meaning no official record of who else was aboard or where they landed. Little St. James had its own private airstrip.

Clinton’s team has long maintained he “never visited Epstein’s island,” knew nothing about the crimes, and only flew on the jet for Clinton Foundation work. A 2024 statement repeated: “President Clinton has never been to Little St. James Island, Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, or his residence in Florida.”

Yet multiple Epstein victims tell a different story. Virginia Giuffre testified under oath that she saw Clinton on the island “with two young girls.” Another victim, Johanna Sjoberg, said Epstein once told her “Clinton likes them young.” Both statements remain unproven in court.

The new emails also show Epstein frantically trying to control the narrative weeks before his 2019 arrest, bragging he had “dirt” on powerful people and threatening to release flight logs if prosecutors came for him. One message reads: “I have logs that will end careers.”

House Democrats blasted the release as a “partisan stunt,” noting none of the documents implicate Clinton in any crime and that Republicans redacted victim names while leaving Clinton’s in bold. Rep. Jamie Raskin called it “MAGA fan fiction.”

Comer fired back on X: “The American people deserve transparency about who flew on that plane and who went to that island. We’re not stopping.”

The Epstein client list remains sealed by a New York judge, but pressure is mounting after President-elect Trump promised during the campaign to “release everything” on day one.

For now, the documents raise more questions than answers: Was Epstein lying to protect Clinton — or lying to protect himself? Either way, the ghosts of Little St. James aren’t going away quietly.