Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell on same flight to Caribbean destination with disgraced Harvard president
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Shamed former Harvard president Larry Summers honeymooned with his wife on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, according to a new report.
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The report was released Thursday after Summers took leave from his teaching post Wednesday at the Ivy League school following the release of emails last week that showed he kept a friendship with Epstein long after the billionaire financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl in 2008.
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Citing publicly available flight logs, the Harvard Crimson reported that Summers flew to the Caribbean island with his wife, Elisa F. New, by helicopter shortly after the couple married on Dec. 11, 2005, in Cambridge, Mass.
“Mr. Summers and Ms. New spent their honeymoon in St. John and Jamaica in December 2005, which was long before Mr. Epstein was arrested for the first time,” a spokesperson for Summers told the outlet, per the New York Post.
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“As part of that trip, they made a brief visit of less than a day to Mr. Epstein’s island.”
Visit came after police began investigating Epstein
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s partner in crime, was also on the flight, the records showed.
Their visit to the island happened six months after Palm Beach, Fla., cops started investigating Epstein over the rape of a 14-year-old girl.
Summers, who is a former U.S. treasury secretary, resigned from the board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, Wednesday as scrutiny over his ties to the disgraced financier intensified.
Summers’ departure from OpenAl came just two days after he announced he was stepping back from all public commitments following the release of thousands of emails with Epstein.
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Last week, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate, pointing to a friendly relationship between Summers and the pedophile.
The emails showed the two men corresponding about a woman Summers was interested in, among other topics.
Release of documents approved by U.S. lawmakers
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of making the Epstein files public, supporting a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release the files on the convicted billionaire sex offender following months of opposition from President Donald Trump and other Republicans.
The bill passed in the Senate and has since been signed into law by Trump.
Earlier this week, the president specifically mentioned Summers while blasting ABC News’ White House correspondent Mary Bruce for her questions about the Epstein files.
“As far as the Epstein files … I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert and I guess I turned out to be right,” Trump said, while mentioning Bill Clinton and Summers.
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