Legal disclaimer: This article is based solely on documents released in the federal EFTA (Electronic Filing and Text Archive) production, made public through litigation, supplemented by the archive's entity index. All facts are drawn from those documents. This article does not assert guilt, wrongdoing, or criminal conduct on the part of any individual. Language such as "documents indicate," "records show," and "alleged" reflects the evidentiary basis and does not constitute a legal conclusion. Minors are not identified in this reporting.
Eric H. Roth, president of the Long Island aircraft-interiors firm International Jet Interiors, appears in more than 2,500 records in the InvArchives repository, with the archive's entity index showing 841 direct co-occurrences with Jeffrey Epstein. The correspondence traces a business relationship that ran for at least six years, from a 2013 refit of Epstein's Gulfstream IV cabin to an in-person meeting Roth scheduled with Epstein "at your place" in Manhattan in May 2019 — roughly ten weeks before Epstein's arrest.
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The earliest documents reviewed for this article, from mid-2013, show Roth and Epstein corresponding directly and frequently — often several times in a single day — over granular design decisions for Epstein's Gulfstream IV ("GIV") jet. A September 3, 2013 email from Roth lays out a proposed modification to the forward seat ledges to gain two inches of aisle clearance, attaching a drawing of what he called "YOUR seat (R/H #2)" and asking Epstein to sign off before work proceeded (Roth to Epstein re: GIV VIP Ledge design, September 3, 2013). Through that summer, a running email thread titled simply "Carpet" shows the two men going back and forth on carpet color and pattern — wood tones versus a lighter blue "that reflects light," and whether a proposed image looked "too old school" — with Roth signing each message with his title and the firm's Ronkonkoma, New York address (Epstein/Roth "Carpet" thread, July 3, 2013).
By October 2013, the correspondence turned to a punch list of "GIV Discrepancies" — outstanding items from the refit — alongside a detailed back-and-forth over the aircraft's audio system, in which Epstein specified he wanted a flat frequency response tuned to his own hearing and objected to an air leak he'd noticed in a reworked seal. Roth responded that he would "make sure the outstanding discrepancies are satisfied" (Epstein/Roth re: GIV Discrepancies, October 26, 2013).
Epstein's contract with International Jet Interiors extended beyond the fixed-wing jet to a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter. A March 2015 email chain shows Epstein's longtime financial manager Richard Kahn flagging an unresolved billing matter to Epstein directly: "he appears to be looking for a response from me as i never [r]eplied to his email offering a 10,000 discount please advise," Kahn wrote, forwarding a message from Roth (Kahn to Epstein re: Eric Roth, March 24, 2015). The same forwarded message shows Roth inviting Kahn to watch a CNBC segment, "Secret Lives of the Super Rich," that evening — describing it as showcasing International Jet Interiors' refurbishment of a Sikorsky S-76 helicopter for Donald Trump. Nothing in the documents reviewed ties Trump to Epstein's own dealings with the firm; the reference documents only that the two men used the same aircraft-interiors contractor at different times.
A year later, a March 2016 email chain over the S-76's cabin layout was copied directly to Epstein's longtime pilot, Larry Visoski, and to Kahn. Visoski relayed that Epstein wanted a "kitchen annex" area used for storage and closets rather than food preparation, and Roth worked through the technical details of galley and lavatory configuration in response (Roth/Visoski/Epstein/Kahn re: S-76 galley layout, March 21, 2016).
Roth's name continued to surface in Epstein's routine scheduling records years after the initial jet refit. Two brief calendar alerts from May 2017 — one instructing a call with Roth, the other flagging an expected FedEx delivery from him — show the relationship had become routine enough to be tracked alongside Epstein's other recurring appointments (calendar alert: call Eric Roth, May 18, 2017; calendar alert: FedEx from Eric Roth, May 3, 2017).
By 2018, the correspondence shows International Jet Interiors staff working directly with Epstein without Roth as the sole point of contact. A May–June 2018 thread over a "Plan D" carpet order — copying Roth and colleague Jay Massar — shows interior designer Eileen McDowell corresponding with Epstein about carpet density and yardage, with Epstein weighing in personally on order specifications ("sorry, order the denser version") (McDowell/Epstein/Roth "Plan D carpet" thread, May 29–June 4, 2018).
The most detailed record of the relationship's final stretch is a February 19, 2019 work-scope email from International Jet Interiors staffer Jay Massar to Visoski, Roth, McDowell, and two other colleagues, running through 25 numbered items for a refit of an aircraft the correspondence refers to only as "the 550" — apparently a separate, larger airframe from the Gulfstream IV the firm had refitted in 2013; InvArchives could not independently verify the tail number from the documents reviewed. The items range from veneer covers and speaker placement to matching an existing foot stool, and the email notes the work was slated for "a 2 week down time starting 3/11/19." The same email states that "Eric will need to respond to the S76 items," indicating the helicopter refit was proceeding in parallel (Massar work-scope email re: "the 550" and S-76, February 19, 2019).
Roth was still corresponding with Epstein directly as late as May 2, 2019. In an email exchange that day, Roth described sample materials for the helicopter cabin — "matte black leathers, matte black Alcantara (ultrasuede)," and carbon-fiber cabinetry samples still in progress — and proposed meeting Epstein in person: "I can come to you if you are in the city next week?" The two settled on a meeting the following Tuesday, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., at what Roth's message describes as "your place" (Roth/Epstein re: S-76 samples and meeting, May 2, 2019). Epstein was arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges roughly ten weeks later, on July 6, 2019.
Nothing reviewed for this article documents Roth's or International Jet Interiors' knowledge of, or involvement in, the conduct underlying Epstein's criminal charges. The record here is limited to a commercial vendor relationship: cabin design decisions, invoicing and discount negotiations routed through Kahn, routine scheduling, and a final round of material selection for an aircraft refit that was still being planned when Epstein was arrested. Readers should treat the "documents indicate" framing throughout as exactly that — a description of what the underlying paper trail shows, not a legal conclusion about Roth, International Jet Interiors, or any other individual or company named here.
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