
Larry Summers Visited Epstein Island On Honeymoon
Former Harvard professor Larry Summers spent part of his 2005 honeymoon with his new bride, Elisa F. New, on a private island owned at the time by disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Publicly available flight logs examined by the Harvard Crimson show that on Dec. 21, 2005 ― about 10 days after their wedding ― Summers and New flew south from Bedford, Massachusetts, on Epstein’s private plane to Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas.
The U.S. Virgin Island’s city is the place where visitors would grab a helicopter before heading off to Epstein’s island, the Crimson noted.
The honeymoon flight was confirmed by Summers’ spokesman Steven Goldberg, who claimed it was just a brief visit long before Epstein was ever arrested.
“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,” Goldberg told the paper. “As part of that trip, they made a brief visit of less than a day to Mr. Epstein’s island.”
HuffPost reached out to Summers for comment on the vacation, but no one immediately responded.
Summers and New weren’t the only passengers on the flight. The logs also show Epstein’s partner-in-crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, was there as well as the financier’s longtime pilot, Larry Visoski.
The Crimson notes that Summers and New’s visit came months after Florida officials opened an investigation into Epstein and days after the convicted sex trafficker had started assembling a legal team that included Summers’ Harvard colleague Alan Dershowitz.
The story about the honeymoon trip to Epstein’s island is just the latest revelation about Summers that has popped up since last week’s Epstein email dump, which showed their friendship went on longer and was deeper than previously known.
Not only did Summers stay in contact with Epstein for years after the billionaire financier’s guilty plea for soliciting sex from underage girls in Florida in 2008, but he sent his last message to Epstein just one day before Epstein was arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking minors in July 2019.
Among the cringiest revelations: The Harvard professor even asked Epstein for dating tips with a woman he described as a “mentee.”
The outcry over the emails has been bad for Summers’ career, especially after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) demanded he resign from Harvard and warned that he “cannot be trusted” with students.
In addition, President Donald Trump ― who also appears in the Epstein files ―demanded that the Justice Department and FBI investigate Epstein’s ties to powerful Democrats like Summers and former president Bill Clinton.
Summers tried to deal with the fallout by announcing on Monday he would step back from all public commitments so he can “rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
On Wednesday, he said he would be exiting the board of OpenAI.
Still, Summers hoped to at least keep teaching, and told students attending a class on Wednesday that he thought that it was “very important to fulfill my teaching obligations.”
Later in the evening, Summers changed his mind and announced he will no longer be teaching classes and that his co-teachers would finish out the term.
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