Disgraced ex-Harvard president Larry Summers reportedly spent his honeymoon on Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private island — flying from Massachusetts on the convicted billionaire pedophile’s jet with Ghislaine Maxwell, flight records show.
Summers flew to Saint James on Epstein’s infamous “Lolita Express” with his wife, Elisa F. New, shortly after their Dec. 11, 2005, wedding in Cambridge, and was accompanied by the disgraced financier’s infamous madam, who was later convicted on sex trafficking charges, the Harvard Crimson reported Thursday.
“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.
Larry Summers and his wife honeymooned on Jeffrey Epstein’s island back in 2005, according to flight logs. Leap Photography / Shutterstock
Epstein’s Little Saint James island, where he sex-trafficked young women and teenagers. SplashNews.com“As part of that trip, they made a brief visit of less than a day to Mr. Epstein’s island.”
The island getaway came six months after Palm Beach police began investigating Epstein for the rape of a 14-year-old girl, with a search warrant later executed on his mansion in October 2005.
Flight logs show Summers flew to the 72-acre Caribbean island on Dec. 21, 2005 — and took Epstein’s jet, allegedly used to ferry victims and accomplices in his sex-trafficking rings, three other times.
Three of the trips occurred while the 70-year-old was serving as Harvard’s president.
President Bill Clinton’s former Treasury secretary — who helmed the elite university between 2001 and 2006 and was a tenured economics professor there since 1983 — resigned from the board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, on Wednesday amid a firestorm over his ties to the infamous predator.
Summers left his teaching gig at Harvard after he was revealed in Epstein’s emails. REUTERS
Epstein’s madam and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell also traveled with Summers and his wife, according to a report. SDNY / SplashNews.comHours later, Summers went on leave from his teaching role and as head of Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center, a post he’s held since 2001.
The fallout comes after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released over 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate, showing Summers had a chummy relationship with the billionaire and exchanged thousands of emails between 2013 and 2019.
Epstein, who died by suicide in jail awaiting trial in 2019, was convicted of sex-trafficking minors in 2008.
The emails between Summers and the late creep, which continued until the day before Epstein’s 2019 arrest, showed the two men corresponding about a woman Summers was interested in, among other topics.
At the time, Summers was married to his second wife, New, a Harvard American literature professor.
Yale Budget Lab and the left-leaning Center for American Progress, two other institutions Summers was affiliated with, announced he was no longer associated with them in the wake of the emails surfacing.
