Bill Clinton’s former Treasury secretary, Larry Summers, traveled to Jeffrey Epstein’s well-known private island, according to flight records.
Newly released government emails show that the 70-year-old economist maintained a cordial relationship with Epstein up until the financier’s death.
Flight logs indicate that Summers flew on Epstein’s private jet four times, including a December 21, 2005 trip to Charlotte Amalie, the capital of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Jeffrey Epstein is pictured with law professor Alan Dershowitz (left) and Larry Summers (right) at a dinner he hosted at Harvard in 2004.
Because Little St. James has no runway, Epstein’s private jet typically landed in Charlotte Amalie, with the island reachable by a short helicopter trip.
According to flight records, three of Summers’ flights on Epstein’s jet — often referred to as the “Lolita Express” due to allegations that it was used to transport individuals involved in Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation — occurred while he was serving as president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006.
The 2019 federal indictment against Epstein alleged that he sexually exploited dozens of underage girls between roughly 2002 and 2005 at multiple locations, including his 72-acre private island.
Epstein had a close relationship with Alan Dershowitz, who has said Epstein would read his books in manuscript form before publication.
Epstein also reportedly used Little St. James to cultivate relationships with scientists, academics, and other intellectuals he hoped to impress.
There is no available record of what, if anything, was planned on the island at the time of Summers’ visit, and no suggestion of wrongdoing by Summers. A spokesperson for him did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
According to the flight logs, the same trip also listed a passenger named “Lisa Summers,” a name similar to that of his now-wife Elisa, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in his sex-trafficking operation.
Jeffrey Epstein is seen speaking with Larry Summers at Harvard University in 2004.
Epstein—who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial—was openly enthusiastic about Harvard. He contributed more than $9 million to the university and its affiliated programs between 1998 and 2008, and was granted a position as a “visiting fellow” for the purpose of conducting research.
The university later stated that Epstein, who did not complete college, “lacked the academic qualifications visiting fellows typically possess.”
Flight records also show that Summers traveled on Epstein’s jet on April 15, 2004, on a trip from New York to Bedford, Massachusetts, alongside Epstein and Sarah Kellen—an assistant who worked for Epstein beginning in the early 2000s and was described by a judge as a “knowing participant” in his scheme.
The newly released documents indicate that Summers exchanged light-toned messages with Epstein and, at one point, asked him about “girls,” according to the records.
A photo from March 12, 2020 shows Jeffrey Epstein’s Boeing 727—nicknamed the “Lolita Express”—which could seat 29 passengers.
According to the flight logs, on September 14, 2005, Summers, Epstein, and Maxwell flew from Bedford, Massachusetts—where Summers was working at Harvard—to New York.
The records also show that Summers’ first documented flight on Epstein’s jet was a trip from Aspen, Colorado, to Washington, D.C., in September 1998, before he became Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Clinton the following year.
A 2020 report released by Harvard noted:
“A number of the Harvard faculty members we interviewed also acknowledged that they visited Epstein at his homes in New York, Florida, New Mexico, or the Virgin Islands, visited him in jail or on work release, or traveled on one of his planes.”
The report added that faculty members said they engaged in these activities “primarily in their personal capacities rather than as representatives of Harvard.”
Newly released emails indicate that Epstein had soured on Donald Trump after previously maintaining a friendly relationship with him.
According to the report, any additional meetings between Summers and Epstein did not appear to violate Harvard’s rules or policies.
Thousands of documents made public by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday shed further light on Epstein’s interactions with Summers, including hundreds of emails exchanged between 2013 and 2019.
The messages—largely focused on women, politics, and Harvard—show that Summers continued corresponding with the convicted sex offender well into 2019, despite Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor and the numerous lawsuits accusing him of sexually abusing underage girls.
Their final documented email exchange took place in March 2019, just months before Epstein’s July arrest.
In that conversation, Summers — married since 2005 — told Epstein he had replied to an unnamed woman who brushed him off by writing, “awfully coy u are,” and then added: “Did u really rearrange the weekend we were going to be together because guy number 3 was coming.”
Summers went on to say he “didn’t want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits,” adding that the woman “must be very confused or maybe wants to cut me off but wants professional connection a lot and so holds to it.”
The passage concludes with a claim that President Donald Trump on Friday directed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Epstein’s ties to former President Bill Clinton, other prominent Democrats, and financial institutions, as stated in the source text.
