The Boeing 727 formerly owned by disgraced financier and notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein yet holds grim secrets relating to his dark past.
The aircraft has remained grounded at the Stambaugh Aviation facility in Brunswick, Georgia for the past decade and the years appear to have taken their toll, both on the exterior and interior.
As with all things related to Epstein, whose vast network and shocking web of crimes has made him one of the most infamous characters of this century, the “Lolita Express” has garnered plenty of attention. The release of over three million documents by the Department of Justice earlier this year birthed renewed interest, with all holdings, properties, vehicles, and items belonging to Epstein coming under scrutiny.
The plane, purchased by Epstein in 2001, ferried a number of high-profile individuals around the world while still in use. Nicknamed the “Lolita Express”, prosecutors also allege that it was used by Epstein to traffic his young victims between countries.
The 133-foot-long Boeing 727 boasted a kitchen, two bathrooms and three different sitting areas in his hay-day, but now, eight years after it was sold by Epstein prior to his 2019 arrest, new photos and video footage have emerged depicting its sorry state of degradation.
The New York Post were given rare access to the inside of the plane, which is now said to be overrun by “insects and mildew”. Meanwhile, it’s also said that there are a number of “disturbing” items that have been left.
Post reporter Georgia Worrell described being greeted by a ‘nose-curdling musty stench’ as she stepped onboard the Lolita Express. She went on to find “moldy shaving cream cans, used toothbrushes and orange-and-yellow hair ties”, as well as baby lotion and baby powder in bathroom cabinets, a disassembled satellite phone hidden in a nightstand, and dirty towels and paper napkins featuring Epstein’s initials.
In the bedroom of the aircraft, the duvet covering the bed is now infested with insects. A pair of glasses have been left on the nightstand (the same one concealing the satellite phone), close to where three emergency air masks dangle from the ceiling.
The Post claim that the bed set and padded floors were installed so that Epstein and his guests could have sex mid-flight. His victims, meanwhile, have previously reported that Epstein committed acts of sexual abuse on the aircraft.
Away from the bedroom, a doorless opening leads to a sitting room decorated with red crushed velvet that covers the walls, a couch and two armchairs.
Inside Epstein’s rotting ‘Lolita Express’ – that still holds dark clues about paedo’s abuse pic.twitter.com/FVsZV3BVFl
— The Sun (@TheSun) February 24, 2026
The owner of the boneyard where the plane has been left to rot 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 told the publication.
The owner of the yard also revealed that the plane was supposed to be “cut up” and scrapped after being abandoned, though those plans never went ahead.
