Former Harvard University president Larry Summers reportedly visited Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous private island, Little Saint James, during his 2005 honeymoon. Newly surfaced flight records indicate that Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traveled from Massachusetts on Epstein’s private jet, with Ghislaine Maxwell accompanying them.
Shortly after their December 11, 2005 wedding in Cambridge, the couple flew to the island—widely referred to by critics as “Pedo Island.” Maxwell, later convicted on sex-trafficking charges, was also aboard, according to The Harvard Crimson.
A spokesperson for Summers confirmed that the couple made a stop at the island but insisted it was brief and unrelated to Epstein’s later criminal exposure. “Mr. Summers and Ms. New spent their honeymoon in St. John and Jamaica in December 2005, well before Mr. Epstein’s first arrest,” the spokesperson said. “As part of that trip, they made a brief visit of less than a day to Mr. Epstein’s island.”
The visit took place roughly six months after police in Palm Beach began investigating Epstein for the assault of a 14-year-old girl. Flight logs further reveal that Summers traveled on Epstein’s plane—often dubbed the “Lolita Express”—three additional times after the honeymoon trip. Three of the four documented flights occurred while Summers was still serving as Harvard’s president.
The renewed scrutiny has intensified backlash over Summers’ ties to the disgraced financier. Summers, who previously served as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton and led Harvard from 2001 to 2006, resigned from the board of OpenAI on Wednesday as the controversy escalated.
He subsequently stepped away from his tenured teaching position in Harvard’s economics department and took leave from his role as director of the Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center.
Two affiliated organizations—the Yale Budget Lab and the Center for American Progress—also announced that Summers is no longer connected to their programs.
His departure from multiple posts follows the release of more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The files reveal extensive email exchanges between Summers and Epstein from 2013 to 2019, with communication continuing up until the day before Epstein’s arrest in 2019. Epstein was convicted of sex-trafficking minors in 2008 and died by suicide in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.
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