Navy secretary John Phelan listed as passenger on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane in 2006

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Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is named on a flight manifest found among millions of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that have been released in recent months, showing that he flew in 2006 from London to New York on Epstein’s private plane.

The manifest lists Phelan alongside 12 other passengers including Epstein and apparently Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent and close associate of Epstein who was facing charges of sexual assault and rape of a minor when he was found dead in his prison cell in 2022. Brunel’s name appears to have been misspelled as “Jean Luk Brunnel” on the manifest.

Six names on the list are redacted. The flight left London traveling to New York on the afternoon of March 3, 2006.




https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/phelan-epstein-flight