Freshly released documents from the U.S. Department of Justice connected to Jeffrey Epstein have revived political pressure on President Donald Trump, after records highlighted a long-running relationship between Epstein and a private aviation executive whose company performed work for Trump's aircraft, according to reporting described in files reviewed by OK! Magazine.
The disclosure centers on Eric Roth, president and chief executive of International Jet Interiors, a Long Island-based firm specializing in luxury aircraft refurbishment. Newly public records indicate that Roth and Epstein exchanged emails over roughly a decade regarding renovation work connected to Epstein's Gulfstream jet, a relationship that investigators say continued for years after Epstein's 2008 conviction in Florida.
The documents have triggered renewed calls from critics and legal analysts for Trump and other prominent figures whose names appear in Epstein-related materials to provide testimony, as scrutiny intensifies over individuals who remained in contact with the financier following his initial criminal case.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting an underage person for prostitution and served a 13-month sentence in Florida before being released in 2009. More than a decade later, federal prosecutors arrested him again on sex-trafficking charges in 2019. Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail cell later that year while awaiting trial.
The new records describe a professional connection between Roth and Epstein centered on aviation projects.
According to the documents cited in the reporting:
- Roth and Epstein exchanged emails from 2009 through 2019 concerning work on Epstein's Gulfstream jet.
- The correspondence reportedly included discussions about aircraft renovation projects and meetings linked to aviation services.
- One meeting referenced in the documents occurred at MacArthur Airport on Long Island in 2017, shortly before Epstein departed for the Caribbean.
The emails also show Roth seeking personal assistance from Epstein unrelated to aircraft work. In a 2014 message included in the files, Roth wrote: "Is there anything that you can do to influence/appeal... something? Devastated." Epstein responded that the situation was "complicated. But not hopeless."
According to the records described in the report, the exchange concerned Roth asking Epstein to help with his daughter's rejected application to the University of Michigan. Later correspondence suggested Epstein helped arrange temporary housing for Roth's daughter in a studio apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
There is no indication in the records that Roth was accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein's sex-trafficking operation. Investigators have long described Epstein's network as involving the recruitment and abuse of young women and underage girls, crimes for which Ghislaine Maxwell was later convicted in federal court.
Trump's name has surfaced in previous Epstein-related disclosures, including flight logs showing that the future president traveled on Epstein's private aircraft several times during the 1990s. Those logs indicate flights between 1993 and 1996, sometimes involving other passengers whose identities were partially redacted in public documents.
Private aviation played a central role in federal investigators' reconstruction of Epstein's movements between residences in New York, Florida, Europe and the Caribbean. Authorities ultimately arrested Epstein in July 2019 at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after he arrived from Paris.
The appearance of Roth's communications with Epstein has fueled calls from some legal commentators for additional testimony from individuals connected to Epstein's social and professional circles. The pressure has intensified after former political figures, including Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, reportedly gave depositions to congressional investigators reviewing Epstein-related records.
