A top economic official in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations sought advice from convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein about his relationship with an unidentified woman, bombshell emails released by the House Oversight Committee show.

Lawrence Summers, who served as Clinton’s final Treasury secretary and director of the National Economic Council under Obama, routinely picked Epstein’s twisted brain about how to interact with the woman, who apparently lived in London at the time of the exchanges.

On March 16, 2019, less than four months before Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, Summers wrote that he and the woman had “talked on the phone.”

“Then [she said] ‘I can’t talk later’. Dint [sic] think I can talk tomorrow,” the former president of Harvard University continued in the correspondence tucked in 20,000 pages of documents made public by the panel Wednesday.

“I said what are you up to. She said ‘I’m busy’. I said awfully coy u [sic] are,” Summers complained. “And then I said. Did u [sic] really rearrange the weekend we were going to be together because guy number 3 was coming’. She said no his schedule changed after we changed our plans. I said ok I got to go call me when u feel like it.

“Tone was not of good feeling,” the now-70-year-old summed up. “I dint [sic] want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits.”

“[S]hes smart,” Epstein told Summers in a responding email 11 minutes later. “[M]aking you pay for past errors. [I]gnore the daddy im [sic] going to go out with the motorcycle guy, you reacted well.. annoyed shows caring., no whining showed strentgh [sic].”

Epstein, 66, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell 147 days later, on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial.

The March 2019 exchange was not the only time Epstein and the married Summers discussed the fairer sex.

In November 2018, Summers forwarded Epstein an email from a different woman with the comment: “Think no response for a while probably appropriate.”

“She’s already begining to sound needy :) nice,” Epstein replied.

The emails shed new light on the closeness of the relationship between Epstein and Summers, who serves on the board of directors at OpenAI.

In 2014, Summers had sought advice from Epstein about how to raise $1 million to help his wife, Harvard professor Elisa New, create an online educational project about American poetry.

The exchange was reported in 2023 by the Wall Street Journal, which noted that a nonprofit linked to New had received a $100,000 donation from Epstein.

Three years later, in October 2017, Summers went on a bizarre rant to Epstein about the case of Michelle Jones, whose admission to a Harvard PhD program had been rescinded after university officials learned she had spent time in prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son decades earlier.

“I’m trying to figure out why American elite think if u [sic] murder your baby by beating and abandonment it must be irrelevant to your admission to Harvard,” Summers wrote in apparent reference to the “Me Too” movement, “but hit on a few women 10 years ago and [you] can’t work at a network or think tank.”

Summers then added, in all caps: “Do not repeat this insight.”

When approached for comment by the New York Times on Wednesday, Summers referred the outlet — to which he contributes opinion pieces — to statements in which he has been “regretting my past associations with Mr. Epstein.”

Epstein and Summers also discussed President Trump in their newly revealed correspondence, with the former telling Summers on Feb. 8, 2017, that the commander-in-chief has “[n]ot one decent cell in his body.”

“I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump,” the disgraced financier added in the same message.

“[Y]our world does not understand how dumb he really is,” Epstein warned Summers in a May 28, 2017, email. “[H]e will blame everyone around him … for bad results.”

In December 2018, Epstein described Trump to Summers as “borderline insane,” adding that prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz, who represented both Epstein and Trump in various legal proceedings, was “a few feet further from the border but not by much.”

Epstein and Trump, now 79, enjoyed a warm friendship in the 1990s and early 2000s, but reportedly fell out in the middle of the latter decade amid a bidding war over a since-demolished Palm Beach, Fla., mansion.

This past July, Trump told reporters that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago over his and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell’s penchant for plucking young girls who worked at the resort’s spa to groom and abuse.

“[T]rump said he asked me to resign,” Epstein told discredited author Michael Wolff in a Jan. 31, 2019, email released by Democrats on the Oversight Committee ahead of the larger release. “[I was] never a member ever.”

“[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked [G]hislaine to stop,” Epstein added.

Democrats pointed to the emails — from 2011, 2015, and 2019 — suggesting that Trump had more detailed knowledge of Epstein’s perversions than previously claimed.

In the April 2, 2011, email, Epstein claimed to Maxwell that a victim “spent hours at my house with him [Trump, and] he has never once been mentioned.”

The White House promptly revealed that the victim in question was Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly denied Trump had ever committed any wrongdoing with her before taking her own life this past April.

At some point in 2000, Giuffre, then 16, met Maxwell, who offered her a job working for Epstein as a traveling masseuse. In her posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl,” Giuffre described being introduced to Trump by her father shortly before Maxwell and Epstein entered her life.

“Trump couldn’t have been friendlier,” Giuffre wrote, “telling me it was fantastic that I was there.”
Far from implicating Trump in any illegal activity, Giuffre recounted that he helped her make some extra money as a baby-sitter for wealthy families who rented out homes the real estate mogul owned on the Palm Beach property.