RFK Jr. Went ‘Dinosaur Bone Hunting’ with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once took part in a dinosaur fossil-hunting outing alongside Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to an email exchange contained in a newly released batch of Justice Department records.

In an August 2012 email, Epstein described a trip “Dinosaur and fossil hunting with [paleontologist] jack horner on the ranch,” noting they found “90 million year old clams and fossils” and telling Maxwell it was “Right up your alley.” Maxwell replied the next day, referencing a prior excursion: “Love that – didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?” Epstein responded, “Yes.”

A spokesperson for Kennedy did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday, Feb. 7.

Maxwell has referenced the trip before. In an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — released by the DOJ last year and obtained by Politico — she said she did not recall flying anywhere with Kennedy, but confirmed they were acquainted. When asked how she knew, Maxwell answered: “Because we went on a trip together. … We went dinosaur bone hunting in the Dakotas.”

While there is no confirmed record of a flight specifically tied to the fossil-hunting weekend, flight logs have previously shown Kennedy, 72, and his second wife — then-girlfriend — Mary Richardson Kennedy traveled from New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport to Palm Beach, Fla., with Epstein in 1994. The trip also included Kennedy’s two oldest children, son Bobby III and daughter Kick.

Kennedy has publicly addressed those flights. During a December 2023 interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, he said, “I was on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet two times. I went to Florida with my wife and two children to visit my mom over Easter. My wife [Mary] had some kind of relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, and they offered us a ride to Palm Beach.”

He also described a second trip: “I flew again with my family with, I think, four of my children and Mary, my wife, to Rapid City, South Dakota, to go fossil hunting for a weekend,” adding, “Otherwise, I was never on his jet alone.”

“I’ve been very open about this from the beginning,” Kennedy said, adding that the flights happened “before anybody knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s nefarious issues.”

Kennedy later discussed the flights with NewsNation in a January 2024 interview, again pointing to Maxwell’s connection with his wife, Mary.

Beyond those flights and occasional encounters at social events, Kennedy told NewsNation he “had no relationship with” Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial one month after he was arrested and charged with *** trafficking of minors in July 2019.

“I knew nothing about Jeffrey Epstein,” Kennedy said at the time.