Flight logs show Larry Summers, wife honeymooned on Epstein’s island with Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Former Harvard president Larry Summers reportedly spent part of his honeymoon on Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious Caribbean hideaway, taking off from Massachusetts on the latter’s jet with Ghislaine Maxwell tagging along for the ride.
Summers and Harvard lit professor Elisa F New had tied the knot on December 11, 2005, in Cambridge. Not long after, they hopped aboard Epstein’s infamous “Lolita Express” and headed for Saint James with Epstein's longtime confidante Maxwell listed right there beside them in flight records reviewed by the Harvard Crimson.
A spokesperson for Summers told the outlet in a statement, “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. As part of that trip, they made a brief visit of less than a day to Mr. Epstein’s island.”
The pit stop reportedly happened just six months after Palm Beach cops launched an investigation into Epstein for abusing a 14-year-old and just two months after they ransacked his mansion with a search warrant.
Larry Summers 'steps away' from OpenAI board, Harvard after emails emerge
Flight logs show Larry Summers touched down on the 72-acre island on December 21, 2005, and rode Jeffrey Epstein’s jet three other times, allegedly the same jet used to shuttle underage victims and associates around the world. Three of those trips reportedly went down while Summers was still serving as Harvard’s president.
The former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, Harvard boss from 2001 to 2006, and a tenured professor since 1983, abruptly quit the OpenAI board on Wednesday, November 19, as outrage over his ties to Epstein escalated.
"In line with my announcement to step away from my public commitments, I have also decided to resign from the board of OpenAI," Summers told Axios in a statement. "I am grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about the potential of the company, and look forward to following their progress."
Harvard announced shortly after that Summers was going on leave from teaching and from his longtime perch at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center at the Kennedy School, a position he’s held since 2001.
Larry Summers says he’s ‘deeply ashamed’
On Monday night, Larry Summers tried to get ahead of the avalanche as he declared on CNN that he was “deeply ashamed” of ever keeping contact with Jeffrey Epstein. He said he plans to pause public engagements while he attempts to “rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
“I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” Summers said. “While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
This comes after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unloaded more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate.
Exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein
The trove showed Larry Summers had a cozy relationship with the billionaire, exchanging thousands of emails between 2013 and 2019.
Those emails covered everything from small talk to Summers allegedly discussing a woman he was interested in while he was married to his second wife, New.
The emails show that he reportedly communicated with Summers right up until the day before his arrest in July 2019 on federal trafficking charges.
Both the Yale Budget Lab and the left-leaning Center for American Progress, two groups he’d been associated with, announced they were cutting ties with him after the email dump surfaced.
