Larry Summers Got Affair Advice from Jeffrey Epstein
New email dump from the House Oversight Committee reveals that Larry Summers got dating advice on his wannabe affair from sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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How depraved do you have to be to ask for dating advice from a sex trafficker? You want to get lucky with the ladies, ask the convicted felon who coerced thousands of girls into sexual slavery! I mean, that’s a solid move for a former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president, right? You can trust the hedge fund, World Bank guy and still-currently-employed Harvard professor to not think with his dick, RIGHT?
No. Apparently, you cannot.
Which is really rich when you consider that before Jeffrey Epstein, Larry Summers was infamous for deriding women for their inferior lady brains. In a 2005 speech, when he was still Harvard President, he said that the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering was due to innate differences in “intrinsic aptitude” and women’s “unwillingness” to work long hours.
I don’t know, Larry. Say what you will about women in STEM, but at least we have enough mental cognition to not take life advice from rapists.
Jeffrey Epstein called himself Larry Summers’ ‘wingman.’
In email exchanges dated between 2013 and 2019, Summers and Epstein frequently shared their thoughts about current events and politics – while also delving into the married economics professor’s love life.
In one March 2019 email, Summers complained to Epstein that he was concerned that the attention he was giving one woman may not pay off in the form of sexual reward.
‘I dint (sic) want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits,’ he wrote.
Summers analyzed his exchange with the woman in classic economic terms, by weighing up how he could maximize profit from what he gave.
Wow. What a charmer.
You gave that bitch your attention. Which is so valuable! Did you buy her an appetizer at a Ruth Chris steak house then explain the economic theory of capability approach by Amartya Sen? Yet she still wouldn’t suck your dick? Demand a refund!
Epstein praised the hopeless professor for his efforts, writing that his lack of ‘whining’ to the woman ‘showed strength’.
The economics professor then whined that the woman had abandoned plans with him for another man she was ‘really attracted’ to but was ‘unsuitable as a partner’.
Speaking of unsuitable partners, aren’t you married, Larry?
(Yes, to his wife of 20+ years, Elisa New, an emerita Harvard literature professor.)
He told Epstein he could not criticize her for this due to their power dynamic, and because he had canceled on her thanks to ‘family and work constraints’ in the past.
Well, that’s big of you, Larry, to recognize a whiff of your own hypocrisy. I didn’t think you had the intrinsic aptitude for that.
Call me!
‘Should I just wait for her to call?’ he asked the sex offender, while suggesting that he could alternatively tell the woman she had ‘used up 80 percent of what she was owed’ by making him change his plans.
Why not just present her with a pie chart and a dick pic?
Epstein also referred to himself in some emails as Summers’ ‘wingman’, according to the Harvard Crimson.
What kind of bromance is this? Well, they do share a love of terrible grammar. #Dint
‘I think life as a stand by in case she needs leverage against another guy sucks.’
Oh, you poor sausage. Do you hate the pick me dance? I’m sure your wife Elisa New has no idea what triangulation feels like.
But Tracy, Larry wasn’t only thinking of himself. He was thinking of Elisa the whole time!
According to the New York Times, Larry Summers sought money from Jeffrey Epstein for his wife’s poetry foundation.
I wonder what Elisa’s pie chart looks like? Does she owe 80 percent? Is there a wife appliance discount?
Well, if today’s column depressed you, that institutional misogyny lives on, that powerful men treat women like used cum tissues. That wandering dick entitlement is the same for cheaters and sex traffickers… take heart! There is this to depress you further.
Larry Summers is STILL EMPLOYED.
Summers, a former president of Harvard University who still teaches courses at the school, added that he will continue “to fulfill my teaching obligations,” but “will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
Oh okay, we’re supposed to interpret your silence as “trust rebuilding.” Isn’t that like dousing a dumpster fire with gasoline and calling it arson control? But whatever. My lady brain probably lacks the sophistication to understand this.
Daddy must fulfill his obligations! And keep teaching those comely co-eds with their inferior brains! Sit on Daddy’s lap and let him explain macro theory to you. Don’t be a tease.
The extent to which certain sections of society “normalised” and were comfortable with whom Epstein really was (and there is no way that the didn’t know what he was doing) is truly unsettling.
Monsters live amongst us.
LFTT
Monsters and their minions abound. Summer’s wife was also sucking up to Epstein by recommending literature with pedophilic themes.
I wonder if Epstein’s Harvard-y connections are the reason that, in 2019– several years after Ghislaine Maxwell’s name and photos started appearing in the news in association with Epstein– grade schools in posh New England neighborhoods were inviting her to give presentations to the kiddies about some ocean conservation project she involved herself in.
Basically these schools were either letting her shop for pedo snacks or letting her wipe her blood-soaked hands on the souls of minor kids. Whatever the case, there’s no chance school administrators and boards didn’t know exactly who Maxwell is. But, from the time I was in LA, I realized that certain types of rabid status seekers/social climbers very carefully avoid forming strong views, opinions or ethical principles because this might get in the way of cuddling up to and flatteringly emulating someone in power who, say, eats babies for lunch and invested in Krugerrands during Apartheid.
I mean, what a disaster it would be if you’re seated next to some master of the universe with the clout to make or break you and you blurt out something positive about Nelson Mandela or, God forbid, diss cannibalism! So they just keep themselves vapid blank slates ready to be imprinted by the next hand that feeds them.
It’s really quite shocking when the curtain is pulled back, isn’t it. I’ve been watching the new Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, and learning about the motivations and machinations of so many of the Founders (land speculation, as well as their efforts to assure any efforts to secure “liberty” did not extend to enslaved persons) has been eye-opening, and not in a good way.
I started watching this last night and was impressed. When I was getting my US History degree 40+ years ago this idea about the Revolution was pretty fringe. But then, as now, “it’s about the economy stupid” rules the day.
Adelante,
Sadly, many of those that would have portrayed themselves as “the great and the good” at various points throughout history would appear to have been neither “great” nor “good” when subjected to scrutiny.
LFTT
Gosh. Just horrid. Indeed, when someone becomes entangled in this filth, what we initially know becomes just the tip of the iceberg.
This is the big, public version, but that whole tip of the iceberg theory strikes a chord. When what you see is bad enough, there’s usually something worse lingering behind. These pigs really must think they’re above it all, or it’s a sick sunk cost thing where once they’re in, there’s no coming back. Certainly true of ex FW and his hooker habit. I think what boggles my mind is that sex is this much of a motivator, but then again it’s probably the power trip that’s the real turn on. Why are these people allowed to remain in positions of power remains the biggest question though.
I always thought the saying that “power is the greatest aphrodisiac” meant that people who gain too much power become frenzied pervs, not that others would necessarily be attracted to them.
At least that was my experience working in media– that, though I felt completely repulsed by the types who abuse power, these masters of the universe types often seemed perpetually on the prowl. It was mostly men but not only men. I’ve seen middle aged she-pervs in power putting the moves on young turnips of both genders.
I imagine these people were always like that but just began letting their freak flags fly higher as they gained more power.
Yes, I worked in government policy in DC, and it was rife. All of the office affairs, affairs with government contractors, and more were just disgusting. I shared a consultant on retainer who had connections to Capitol Hill that would get inside information for me at times, and her stories were wild too.
If you’ve had the bad luck of actually meeting the people involved in the “wild stories,” have you noticed they always turn out to be these musty human mushrooms? 😛
Yes, exactly. I once had a group lunch with an Assistant Secretary who truly was one of the coldest people I’ve ever met. Everything he talked about was black-and-white with no nuance. No personality, and he completely dominated the conversation.
I mentioned that to a work friend afterwards, and he noted that the Assistant Secretary had been married five times and was reportedly living with one of his admin people, a woman thirty years younger than him. Ick!
Eek, yes! I’ve seen the same boggling thing– when doughy ciphers turn out to be sexually incontinent behind the scenes.
One close friend’s whoremongering ex husband comes to mind. The original “Nowhere Man.” When she told me all the disgusting things he’d been caught doing, I believed every word but simply couldn’t wrap my head around it.
Then there was a big child sexual abuse scandal that blew up at my kids’ former school which, aside from exposing two predators on staff, opened a Pandora’s box of gossip about which members of staff were screwing each other or which might also be secret pedos. But, again, I had difficulty imagining any of these blank, nondescript dorks ever expressing strong opinions much less having sex.
But then I read a study on rapists which reported that many present as extremely bland and “asexual.” Authors hypothesize that this might be part of a predatory strategy so that prospective victims don’t sense any danger. That finally made a bit of made sense of the perverted nebbishes I’d observed.
I appreciate your insight. One of my three adult kids lived in DC post college and I never liked visiting because I got weird ‘power’ vibes. My daughter said that she stopped dating when she lived there. Very glad she lives elsewhere.
Well no surprise he had to beg, I mean who would be attracted to him? Trump is calling loud and clear for all of the files to be made available now that he has had a team of people purging his name from every file or destroying them. He can now allow the humiliation of all of these men in power knowing he is not going to be implicated further, Then when the names of all his fellow “pigs” are revealed he won’t feel so lonely. This is how you Make America Great Again. The world is holding its nose again America.
Agree. It’s no use insisting on the files. They will be thoroughly scrubbed before any public knowledge.
Yes, but with today’s surveillance technology and ability to out facts, the truth will eventually prevail. There’s no way that every FBI or DOJ employee is completely loyal to Trump and Bondi. And Lauren Boebert’s future book will undoubtedly feature the Situation Room.
Larry only looked to Jeffrey because they’re both big proponents of STEM (Sex Trafficking Education Mafia).
Love this! And credit to the women who came up with the better WWE* acronym: World Without Exploitation. Saw their PSA last night.
*what kind of crazy are we living in when wrestling takes center stage in the political world
Guiltily guffawing– thanks for that. I have to share this with my kids who’ve been avidly following related news and using gallows humor to wave away the soul-killing stench of it all.
Retired academic here. Oh, that old dodge of appearing to take the high road! “I will continue to fulfill my teaching obligations!” What a noble sad sausage he is! Give him a bitch cookie! Wonder whose advice he sought to manage this hit to his already tarnished reputation. Wonder whether this time around Harvard will see the light and “allow” him to resign/retire at the end of the term.
The real fact is Larry doesn’t want to give up his salary and title and all the access and prestige it brings him to be attached to Harvard, and wants to hold onto his tenure as long as he can, because you can be sure he doesn’t give a flying fig about his “teaching obligations.” I was surprised to see from the Harvard Crimson that he is listed as teaching five courses this semester, as a five course load in one semester is more than the teaching load at many community colleges. Two of these courses are large undergraduate courses–no doubt with mostly “guest lecturers” to provide the actual content, grad student TAs to do the grading andlead any discussion sections. Pretty sure his contribution to any of those those courses is not much more than an occasional lecture or even just his name in the course catalog and on the syllabus, which would allow his nominal students to cite him as an influence or mentor. Oops! He’s nothing but a liability now!
Harvard didn’t care then that a man who made his misogynist pronouncement that women just don’t have the smarts or dedication to do science just might have some other dismissive attitudes about women. Let’s see if they care now.
To add to my already long comment, I do want to say that I saw the noble sad sausage in action myself, when my now-ex became angry that our university (we were both tenured profs there) was phasing out the faculty dining room, a perk my ex availed himself of daily to lunch with a younger woman colleague who had the dubious distinction of being one of his many and serial crushes. (True to form, he made sure to tell me all about how wonderful she was.) He wrote a letter to the admin decrying the loss of collegiality that was “fostered” by the dining room, making it sound that rather than closing down his hunting ground they were damaging a valuable, vibrant intellectual exchange to which benefits to the university itself accrued.
No matter how smart they are they are all ruled by what’s in their pants, not their head.
I thank god on the daily that I am a moral person (even if I did not realize it is vanishingly rare to be so). For one thing, it spares me from having to go through all these gyrations to manipulate people. “So I told her X, and now she may have leverage,” etc — Jesus! Is this really how you interact with people!?!? It’s not a chess match!
Also, I won’t ever be needing advice from a rapist criminal, thanks.
Oh, and Epstein did not kill himself. He was way too entitled and connected to do such a thing. He knew his contacts would get him out of prison, as they had done before.
“Is this really how you interact with people!?!? It’s not a chess match!”
But it is. To these types of people it’s just a game. “I need to capture the queen (or the king, depending). Where are my pawns, my knights…? What’s my next move?” And when the game is done and the afterglow fades it’s time to start another one, because they are bored again. There is nothing in their hearts and minds except domination and score keeping.
Yes, I would sit in front of my attorney at times and comment that I didn’t have it in me to behave so badly. All of the lies and deception, and then the game-playing just isn’t who I am at all. His attorney would be lobbing allegations that made me cry, and my attorney would say, “In these cases, allegations are often admissions…” My attorney became like a big brother to me, but having to keep going in the midst of all that nearly broke me.
What a relief when the judge signed off! The messiness afterwards paled in comparison because I was no longer my ex’s wife. Anything he did, particularly his pro se attempts to get at me, was just noise.
I agree that Epstein did not kill himself. He was too powerful and disordered to do that. He was scheming to get out and keep on with his horrible life. Whoever did it was very high-level, though, and knew exactly how to cover their tracks.
He was murdered and so was his accuser Virginia, no way that was a suicide sorry, not buying it, just like Marilyn Monroe who knew too much. You don’t fight like hell to get someone locked up and then off yourself. Could have been British intelligence MIA because Andrew was about to be exposed yet again. He is being stripped of all his titles before the other shoe drops, they have no idea what is in those tapes, or maybe they do.
“…they have no idea what is in those tapes, or maybe they do.”
It would be shocking if they did NOT know.
From The Observer, Nov. 16, 2025:
“In November 2018, three days before the Miami Herald published a bombshell investigation into Epstein that led to his eventual arrest, Elisa New, a professor of American literature at Harvard, emailed him with a request. She wanted Epstein’s advice on how to persuade Serena Williams, the tennis superstar, to take part in her Poetry in America TV series.
“But that was not the strangest aspect of her message. “I’m going upstairs to hunt for my copy of Lolita,” she told Epstein, according to an email transcript released by the committee. Lolita, the 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, details the protagonist’s sexual obsession with and abuse of a 12-year-old girl. Nabokov was reportedly Epstein’s favourite writer and he kept a copy of Lolita next to his bed.”
Elisa New is Larry Summers’ second wife.
Some prominent feminists have defended Nabokov on the grounds he wasn’t promoting pedophilia but quite the opposite.
In any event, to quote Margaret Atwood, “An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.” I knew a few flaming misogynists who loved the 90s movie “In the Company of Men,” a film which was profoundly critical of misogynistic sexual dominance. I thought it was kind of like the meme saying “Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four wasn’t meant as a manual” though obviously some political authoritarians seem to think it is.
For another example, David Chase, creator of the Sopranos series, described being tormented by the fact that, no matter how disgusting he made the Tony Soprano character, there were still people who admired the character. Chase might have learned a thing or two from Bertholdt Brecht and (Brechtian fan) James Ellroy who were so cynical about the public’s tendencies to worship the most violently psychopathic characters that they created “traps” to kind of lure readers into admiring the charisma of a particular character before pulling the rug and exposing the character as completely repugnant.
Brecht, who described how he liked to “trap the enemy [audience] at close quarters and cause in them a seismic reaction,” called this entrapment/prank tactic “gestics” and it’s been used over and over by many artists. One famous example is the scene in Cabaret where the fresh-faced blond teen sings a beautiful folk song but, as the camera pans back, the kid is revealed to be wearing the uniform of a Nazi youth and doing the heil gesture so that anyone in the audience who’d found themselves swaying along with the lovely song might be pulled up short and embarrassed by how easily they can be tricked by pretty window dressing.
Anyway, I’ve wondered if Lolita has an element of “gestics” and entrapment in it. In any case, I’m among those who aren’t convinced that Nabokov was promoting pedophilia because it seems Humbert Humbert was deliberately written as the most brazenly repulsive, nauseatingly wormy character in literary history.
Nabokov was also a huge fan of Kafka and emulated Kafka’s tendency to characterize political authoritarians as clownish rabid pervs (as opposed to Orwell, whom Nabokov hated, who depicted authoritarians as almost magically omniscient, dignified and puritanical). In the novel Bend Sinister, the lackeys to the dictatorship are all characterized as frantically sexually incontinent and the dictator himself is a sexually demented freak.
I’ve always wondered if Lolita was really a metaphor for the cold war battle over Cuba but Nabokov loved riddling readers and frustrating academic literary analysts by denying that he ever had humanist or sociopolitical intent in his writing. He even denied that blatantly prescient and timely political novels like Invitation to a Beheading or Bend Sinister had any profound political meaning. I kind of suspect he just hated the critics and “literary experts” he encountered in US academia and liked to foil them.
I’ve always wondered that about Scarface and The Godfather, which people often cite as their favorite movies. Wait — did you not understand that this wasn’t some kind of anti-hero? This was a depiction of an awful, amoral, psychopathic murderer.
Elisa New and Ghislaine Maxwell sicken me as much as the men do. They were each once 13 year old girls, did they learn nothing about protecting themselves and others from predators?
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I’m almost old but new to intentionally learning and reading about Feminism. I’ve learned much so far from my 2 grown daughters. Any recommendations as to required reading? Also, is there any hope?
The hope lies in decent people banding together to stand up to perverted power. The hope lies in one decent person standing up to perverted power. The hope lies in clear eyed values that are righteous and true and respectful of others, and unapologetic behavior that demonstrates the same.
In the ‘90s, I attended a nonprofit event featuring Gloria Steinem as keynote speaker. Prior to attending I read her book, “Revolution from Within”. What she wrote about power dynamics was eye opening. I was fortunate to grow up in an environment in which I was taught I could do or be whatever i wanted – in hindsight, pretty naive. Steinem’s book helped me see, in a way I’d never been taught, how power works. It’s not just about feminism, it’s about life.
During my last semester as an academic, I took a class in the history department that used the text, Through Women’s Eyes. That text is one of the very few college books that I’ve kept around because it goes step-by-step through the major milestones in American history that affected women. It uses a number of primary sources. It was a sophomore-level class.
If you know the history, you see how very important the women’s rights movement is.
I have that song 18+ by Scene Queen in my head…
“Target spotlight on the abusers
Half my idols are FUCKING LOSERS
If I’m the bitch just starting rumors
What about the dogs turned into groomers?
Good bands save their fans, oh, I laugh at the irony
Shitheads get off on blatant misogyny
I’ll go full ice pick lobotomy
If I see one more notes app apology
I’m sick of good people getting overlooked
If a bitch wants to be famous
Tell em write a better hook pussy
Pink wristbands on the guest list
Bras hanging on the bus
Yeah you get a lotta girls when not ONE IS 18+
18+ 18+
Get those children off your
BUSTED”
Ooh, ferocious and funny. I appreciate the gallows humor as well as the all-out rage screaming at the end.
Right?
“AHHHHH IT’S NOT THAT FUCKING HAAARDD!!”
Because it really is NOT HARD to stay away from damn teenagers. If you’re looking at someone and you are actually not sure what their age even is, then it is off. Limits.
If you know they’re under 18 then it’s definitely off the table.
Jfc I manage to leave my home every day and not touch teenagers. It’s not hard.
Yes, and I somehow manage not to strangle kittens. Most people do.
Considering the ancient truism of no honor among thieves, I have been wondering about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor turning snitch.
No child wants to be the only one to miss recess for misbehaving when there were so many other guilty parties…..
“Summers, a former president of Harvard University who still teaches courses at the school, added that he will continue ‘to fulfill my teaching obligations.'”
Imagine having this dude as your professor……
There was a dude like that when I was in graduate school. It was STEM field with very few women in general. At the time, there were a few female graduate students, but no female professors.
So the sisterhood warned me about a particular professor, saying that he had been the subject of multiple sexual harassment investigations but always overcame them because he had family wealth and always hired the best attorneys. One graduate school friend of mine had even been hugely pregnant when he was repeatedly proposing an explicit relationship.
I hit a semester where I had to take a particular class with that wreck, or it would significantly waylay my academic progress. I knew the graduate program head very well, and that he was married to a female PhD metallurgist who was in research elsewhere. So I took a female friend who needed the same class and proposed a directed study so that we wouldn’t have to be subjected to that professor. The graduate program head just shook his head, saying, “I get it. My wife went through this sort of thing too. It would be my honor.”
I don’t think that rotten professor ever did get his due, but who knows. He retired in 2001.
They better be working on firing him and they better get him fired quick!
And …. quel scandale !
They’re now discovering that the Miss Universe pageant has been …. rigged ! 😱 Gee, wonder what certain contestants had to do to get picked?
It is so frickin’ tiresome how people exploit young women and girls for their own perverted ends.