November 23, 2025 • 12 mins
In December 2005, ten days after their wedding, Summers and New embarked on their honeymoon, travelling first to the Caribbean and then—according to publicly available flight logs—to Epstein’s private island. They departed from Bedford, Massachusetts, on December 21 on Epstein’s plane bound for St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, a typical staging point to transfer onward to Little Saint James. The records indicate that Summers and New, along with Epstein’s pilot and Ghislaine Maxwell as co-traveller, made a short stop on the island for less than a full day. A spokesperson for Summers later confirmed the brief visit, noting it took place “long before” Epstein’s first formal federal criminal charges.
Although Summers has never been charged with any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, this honeymoon stop has become a focal point of scrutiny because it occurred while Epstein was already under investigation for alleged sexual crimes and because the island later became infamous for sex-trafficking allegations. The trip is now viewed as one of multiple documented occasions Summers flew aboard Epstein’s aircraft, including three flights during his tenure as president of Harvard University.
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Although Summers has never been charged with any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, this honeymoon stop has become a focal point of scrutiny because it occurred while Epstein was already under investigation for alleged sexual crimes and because the island later became infamous for sex-trafficking allegations. The trip is now viewed as one of multiple documented occasions Summers flew aboard Epstein’s aircraft, including three flights during his tenure as president of Harvard University.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Imagine being such a weirdo that you thought
it would be a good idea to spend your honeymoon
on Jeffrey Epstein's island. Now, really think about that. Of
all the places on planet Earth, Paris with the Eiffel
Towers shimmering at night, venice gliding through moonlit canals, a
(00:20):
quiet beach in Maui. Hell, even a roadside holiday inn
with lukewarm continental breakfast would have been more sane. This
man decides the most romantic destination to celebrate eternal love
and commitment is Little Saint James, the international headquarters of
the Pravity, the place already whispered about in elite circles
(00:41):
long before the public caught on. You look your brand
new wife in the eyes and say, sweetheart, I've got
the perfect spot. The private Caribbean island owned by a
sex offender who traffics miners to billionaires. Like who does that?
What kind of fried circuit wiring in your skull produces
that idea and with approval? But that's exactly what happened.
(01:03):
That fever dream scenario is real life for Larry Summers,
mister big shot finance guy, mister economic SuperBrain, mister president
at every meltdown of the last thirty years, the same
guy who parachutes into financial catastrophes like an economic arsonist
holding a gas can, shrugs at the wreckage, and then
lectures everyone else about discipline and expertise. And as if
(01:27):
the honeymoon destination wasn't deranged enough, it wasn't just the
two of them. Reports showed that Larry Summers and his
wife flew down to Little Saint James in two thousand
and five with Glayn Maxwell herself. You remember Glenn Maxwell, right,
Jeffrey Epstein's right hand co conspirator, fixer, and recruiter. Imagine
that flight, Imagine the conversations. Imagine the tone, death level
(01:49):
of comfort you'd have to possess to think, Yeah, this
is fine, totally normal, nothing weird about honeymooning with Glay
Maxwell on Epstein's island. It's like choosing to sell lebrate
your marriage at the Bates Motel with Norman Bates offering
complimentary towel service. For years, summrs has slunk away from
real scrutiny about his Epstein ties slipping out of accountability,
(02:12):
like a grease ferret down a drain pipe. Every time
someone tried to shine a light on the relationship, he
vanished behind institutional protection and media bodyguards. The legacy press
stood shoulder to shoulder around them, dutifully parroting the same script.
These claims are exaggerated, overblown, fringe conspiracy. Don't be ridiculous.
(02:34):
They repeated it until it calcified into a shield. That
was the playbook. Repeat that lie long enough, and hope
that people get bored and look away. But the only
thing that turned out to be exaggerated was the media's
willingness to defend them. Because once you actually dig into
the receipts, the logs, the correspondence, the timeline, Larry Summers
was in some casual acquaintance or a passive passer by.
(02:57):
He wasn't the guy that happened to meet Epstein out
of fun razor once and then waved politely from a distance. No,
these two were welded at the hip. They were operating
in sync. They were thicke as thieves, treading influence, money, access,
and favors like Wall Street baseball cards and the two
thousand and five Honeymoon flight with Epstein and Glenn Maxwell
to the island isn't just some footnote. It's the beating
(03:20):
heart of truth. It tells you exactly how close these
people really were, And the vast majority of major news
outlets knew all of this. They chose silence, not out
of ignorance, but out of loyalty to the machine. They
prioritized protecting one of their own over informing the public.
They made the decision that their political tribe mattered more
(03:40):
than honesty. They calculated that exposing them would crack open
doors they desperately wanted sealed. So they downplayed, dismissed, mocked,
and obscured, not out of confusion, of course, but out
of self preservation. Now the receipts are unavoidable, The excuses
are gone. The credibility shield has shattered, and the spotlight
(04:01):
is blazing. And it isn't soft and warm, it's searing
white heat, the kind you don't stand under without losing flesh.
Larry Summers is standing out in the storm now, and
the clouds overhead aren't rain clouds. They're dumping radioactive Epstein rain.
His time hiding behind institutional protection is finished. The walls
have fallen, and the bill is due, and now Larry
(04:24):
is left to dance in the radioactive Epstein rain. Today's
article is from the New York Post and the headline
Larry Summers and his wife flew to Epstein's Pedal Island
on two thousand and five honeymoon with Glenn Maxwell. This
article was authored by Anna Young. Imagine having that story
(04:44):
to tell now you see here, Sonny, I went on
our honeymoon with your grandmammy and we went to Epstein's
Petal Island. Isn't that cute? Isn't that great? Now? Imagine
being their kids or his kid or her kid, whatever,
and knowing your parents were in gay aging in this
sort of bullshit, hanging out with these people. It's all
so disgusting. And if anybody out there wants to act
(05:07):
like Larry Summers had no idea who Epstein was cool,
go ahead, live in your fever dream, but you're not
going to make the rest of us do it with you.
Disgraced ex Harvard president Larry Summers reportedly spent his honeymoon
on Jeffrey Epstein's notorious private island, flying from Massachusetts on
the convicted billionaire Pedophiles Jet with Glenne Maxwell flight record show.
(05:29):
It was just all, you know, a big mix up.
Nobody knew that Glaine was going to be on the jet.
She wasn't really our friend. We just happened to, you know,
sit next to her. That's the kind of bullshit they'll say.
That's the kind of excuse they'll use. Summers flew to
Saint James on Epstein's infamous Lolita Express with his wife
Elisa F. K New shortly after their December eleventh, two
(05:51):
thousand and five wedding in Cambridge, and was accompanied by
the disgraced financier. You mean pedophile, infamous madam, you mean trafficker, right,
you mean bipedal serpent, You mean fellow child abuser, You
mean all around scumbag who was later convicted on sex
trafficking charges. The Harvard Crimson reported on Thursday mister Summers
(06:12):
and miss News spent their honeymoon in Saint John and
Jamaica in December of two thousand and five, which was
long before mister Epstein was arrested for the first time.
A spokesperson for Somers told the outlet, and that's always
the excuse. Oh, we had no clue. All these young
girls running around, no idea what that was about. I'm
sure that you guys didn't have any kind of intimate conversations,
(06:33):
mister Summers. And here's the hardest part, right we can't
for sure say who knew what and who didn't know what,
And of course they'll use that as a shield, as
an excuse. But in any investigation, it all starts with
circumstantial evidence. You build a foundation out of the circumstantial evidence,
and you build the house, if you will, the case
(06:54):
on top of it. And that's what all of this
stuff is. Circumstantial evidence, not conclusive, not one smoking gun.
But when you add it all together, the picture becomes
very very clear. And if you're just trying to piece
it together one piece at a time, it's never going
to make sense to you. The island getaway came six
months after Palm Beach police began investigating Epstein for the
(07:17):
rape of a fourteen year old girl with a search
warrant later executed at his mansion in October of two
thousand and five. Flight log show Summers flew to the
seventy two acre Caribbean island on December twenty first, two
thousand and five, and took Epstein's jet allegedly used to
ferry victims and accomplices in his sex trafficking rings three
(07:38):
other times, and there's no doubt that's what the jet
was used for. But look, I'm not going to sit
here and tell you that anybody that was on the
jet was taking part in the abuse. What I will
say is that they should answer questions about what they
were doing on the jet. And if you don't want
to be embarrassed, you don't want your name coming out
in these core documents, get ahead of it. Yeah, Look,
(07:58):
I was contacted by so and so. They said that
my name is in these files. And this is why.
Because if you run from it, if you try to
avoid any kind of exposure, then that's only going to
make the net tighten up on you. People are going
to want to know more, people are gonna want to
dig deeper. So if you come out and you just say, look,
(08:18):
this is what was going on at the time, this
is why I was there, this is you know, the
reasoning behind it. And that might be uncomfortable and you
might get, you know, a whole bunch of flack, but
in the long run, that's the proper way to do
it because The longer these people run from their relationship
with Jeffrey Epstein, the deeper the questions get Three of
(08:41):
the trips occurred when the seventy year old was serving
as Harvard's president, President Bill Clinton's former Treasury secretary, who
held the elite university between two thousand and one and
two thousand and six and was tenured economics professors there
since eighty three, resigned from the board of Open AI,
the company behind chat GPT, on Wednesday, amid a firestorm
(09:02):
over his ties to the infamous predator. Well, I call
that just desserts. All these years you were hanging out,
avoiding your relationship with Epstein, not stepping forward when everything
was brewing, not saying to the authorities, Look, I know
that you haven't contacted me, but I was around. Maybe
I saw something, Maybe I know something. That's what a
(09:23):
good decent person would do, right. How many of these
people have done that? How many of these people have
offered themselves up to be examined, to be talked, to,
to be looked at, and to say I have nothing
to do with it, and here's why. And obviously I
don't speak for anybody but myself, but I'd be much
more receptive to some shit like that than you trying
(09:43):
to hide from it. Hours later, Summers went on to
leave from his teaching role and his head of Harvard
Kennedy School. Most of our ROCKMANI center A posts held
since two thousand and one. These are the consequences that
come along with your bullshit. These are the consequences that
should have happened years ago when you were outed as
(10:04):
Epstein's guy. The fallout comes after the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee released over twenty thousand pages of documents
from Epstein's estate showing Summers had a chummy relationship with
the billionaire and exchanged thousands of emails between twenty thirteen
and twenty nineteen. So again, look, you can't act like
(10:24):
you didn't know what he was. And when you lie
about it and you try and act like the relationship
was not as deep as it really was, then people
are going to question everything you have to say why
should we believe you about anything? So that's where I'm at.
I'm not saying that Larry Summers was out here diddling
kids with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm saying that he probably knew
(10:45):
a lot more than he's letting on, and I don't
think that's that big of a jump to make now.
Of course, the question is how do you approve it? Well,
the only way to get to the bottom of it
is to get this guy under oath. Epstein, who died
by suicide in jail awaiting trial in twenty nineteen, was
convicted of sex trafficking miners in two thousand and eight.
(11:08):
The emails between Summers and the Late Creep, which continued
until the day before Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest, showed the
two men corresponding about a woman Summers was interested in,
among other topics, why are you interested in another woman?
You're married already. What are you doing? Why are you
out here creeping? That's another thing I'll never understand. What
(11:31):
is wrong with people who are out here cheating on
their wives or their husbands and acting like everything's all good.
If you don't want to be with somebody, break up
with them, yell. Budget Lab and the left leaning Center
for American Progress, two institutions Summers was affiliated with, announced
that he is no longer associated with them in the
(11:52):
wake of the email surfacing. They knew already, they just
ignored it, But now that you know, they have to
act like they're doing something right, like they can. But look,
the truth is, the relationship between Larry Summers and Jeffrey
Epstein was not some secret, was not something that was
kept in a vault in Langley, and plenty of people
(12:12):
knew just how deep these ties ran, and now after
the emails have been revealed, so does everyone else. All
of the information that goes with this episode can be
found in the description box.
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. Imagine being such a weirdo that you thought
it would be a good idea to spend your honeymoon
on Jeffrey Epstein's island. Now, really think about that. Of
all the places on planet Earth, Paris with the Eiffel
Towers shimmering at night, venice gliding through moonlit canals, a
(00:20):
quiet beach in Maui. Hell, even a roadside holiday inn
with lukewarm continental breakfast would have been more sane. This
man decides the most romantic destination to celebrate eternal love
and commitment is Little Saint James, the international headquarters of
the Pravity, the place already whispered about in elite circles
(00:41):
long before the public caught on. You look your brand
new wife in the eyes and say, sweetheart, I've got
the perfect spot. The private Caribbean island owned by a
sex offender who traffics miners to billionaires. Like who does that?
What kind of fried circuit wiring in your skull produces
that idea and with approval? But that's exactly what happened.
(01:03):
That fever dream scenario is real life for Larry Summers,
mister big shot finance guy, mister economic SuperBrain, mister president
at every meltdown of the last thirty years, the same
guy who parachutes into financial catastrophes like an economic arsonist
holding a gas can, shrugs at the wreckage, and then
lectures everyone else about discipline and expertise. And as if
(01:27):
the honeymoon destination wasn't deranged enough, it wasn't just the
two of them. Reports showed that Larry Summers and his
wife flew down to Little Saint James in two thousand
and five with Glayn Maxwell herself. You remember Glenn Maxwell, right,
Jeffrey Epstein's right hand co conspirator, fixer, and recruiter. Imagine
that flight, Imagine the conversations. Imagine the tone, death level
(01:49):
of comfort you'd have to possess to think, Yeah, this
is fine, totally normal, nothing weird about honeymooning with Glay
Maxwell on Epstein's island. It's like choosing to sell lebrate
your marriage at the Bates Motel with Norman Bates offering
complimentary towel service. For years, summrs has slunk away from
real scrutiny about his Epstein ties slipping out of accountability,
(02:12):
like a grease ferret down a drain pipe. Every time
someone tried to shine a light on the relationship, he
vanished behind institutional protection and media bodyguards. The legacy press
stood shoulder to shoulder around them, dutifully parroting the same script.
These claims are exaggerated, overblown, fringe conspiracy. Don't be ridiculous.
(02:34):
They repeated it until it calcified into a shield. That
was the playbook. Repeat that lie long enough, and hope
that people get bored and look away. But the only
thing that turned out to be exaggerated was the media's
willingness to defend them. Because once you actually dig into
the receipts, the logs, the correspondence, the timeline, Larry Summers
was in some casual acquaintance or a passive passer by.
(02:57):
He wasn't the guy that happened to meet Epstein out
of fun razor once and then waved politely from a distance. No,
these two were welded at the hip. They were operating
in sync. They were thicke as thieves, treading influence, money, access,
and favors like Wall Street baseball cards and the two
thousand and five Honeymoon flight with Epstein and Glenn Maxwell
to the island isn't just some footnote. It's the beating
(03:20):
heart of truth. It tells you exactly how close these
people really were, And the vast majority of major news
outlets knew all of this. They chose silence, not out
of ignorance, but out of loyalty to the machine. They
prioritized protecting one of their own over informing the public.
They made the decision that their political tribe mattered more
(03:40):
than honesty. They calculated that exposing them would crack open
doors they desperately wanted sealed. So they downplayed, dismissed, mocked,
and obscured, not out of confusion, of course, but out
of self preservation. Now the receipts are unavoidable, The excuses
are gone. The credibility shield has shattered, and the spotlight
(04:01):
is blazing. And it isn't soft and warm, it's searing
white heat, the kind you don't stand under without losing flesh.
Larry Summers is standing out in the storm now, and
the clouds overhead aren't rain clouds. They're dumping radioactive Epstein rain.
His time hiding behind institutional protection is finished. The walls
have fallen, and the bill is due, and now Larry
(04:24):
is left to dance in the radioactive Epstein rain. Today's
article is from the New York Post and the headline
Larry Summers and his wife flew to Epstein's Pedal Island
on two thousand and five honeymoon with Glenn Maxwell. This
article was authored by Anna Young. Imagine having that story
(04:44):
to tell now you see here, Sonny, I went on
our honeymoon with your grandmammy and we went to Epstein's
Petal Island. Isn't that cute? Isn't that great? Now? Imagine
being their kids or his kid or her kid, whatever,
and knowing your parents were in gay aging in this
sort of bullshit, hanging out with these people. It's all
so disgusting. And if anybody out there wants to act
(05:07):
like Larry Summers had no idea who Epstein was cool,
go ahead, live in your fever dream, but you're not
going to make the rest of us do it with you.
Disgraced ex Harvard president Larry Summers reportedly spent his honeymoon
on Jeffrey Epstein's notorious private island, flying from Massachusetts on
the convicted billionaire Pedophiles Jet with Glenne Maxwell flight record show.
(05:29):
It was just all, you know, a big mix up.
Nobody knew that Glaine was going to be on the jet.
She wasn't really our friend. We just happened to, you know,
sit next to her. That's the kind of bullshit they'll say.
That's the kind of excuse they'll use. Summers flew to
Saint James on Epstein's infamous Lolita Express with his wife
Elisa F. K New shortly after their December eleventh, two
(05:51):
thousand and five wedding in Cambridge, and was accompanied by
the disgraced financier. You mean pedophile, infamous madam, you mean trafficker, right,
you mean bipedal serpent, You mean fellow child abuser, You
mean all around scumbag who was later convicted on sex
trafficking charges. The Harvard Crimson reported on Thursday mister Summers
(06:12):
and miss News spent their honeymoon in Saint John and
Jamaica in December of two thousand and five, which was
long before mister Epstein was arrested for the first time.
A spokesperson for Somers told the outlet, and that's always
the excuse. Oh, we had no clue. All these young
girls running around, no idea what that was about. I'm
sure that you guys didn't have any kind of intimate conversations,
(06:33):
mister Summers. And here's the hardest part, right we can't
for sure say who knew what and who didn't know what,
And of course they'll use that as a shield, as
an excuse. But in any investigation, it all starts with
circumstantial evidence. You build a foundation out of the circumstantial evidence,
and you build the house, if you will, the case
(06:54):
on top of it. And that's what all of this
stuff is. Circumstantial evidence, not conclusive, not one smoking gun.
But when you add it all together, the picture becomes
very very clear. And if you're just trying to piece
it together one piece at a time, it's never going
to make sense to you. The island getaway came six
months after Palm Beach police began investigating Epstein for the
(07:17):
rape of a fourteen year old girl with a search
warrant later executed at his mansion in October of two
thousand and five. Flight log show Summers flew to the
seventy two acre Caribbean island on December twenty first, two
thousand and five, and took Epstein's jet allegedly used to
ferry victims and accomplices in his sex trafficking rings three
(07:38):
other times, and there's no doubt that's what the jet
was used for. But look, I'm not going to sit
here and tell you that anybody that was on the
jet was taking part in the abuse. What I will
say is that they should answer questions about what they
were doing on the jet. And if you don't want
to be embarrassed, you don't want your name coming out
in these core documents, get ahead of it. Yeah, Look,
(07:58):
I was contacted by so and so. They said that
my name is in these files. And this is why.
Because if you run from it, if you try to
avoid any kind of exposure, then that's only going to
make the net tighten up on you. People are going
to want to know more, people are gonna want to
dig deeper. So if you come out and you just say, look,
(08:18):
this is what was going on at the time, this
is why I was there, this is you know, the
reasoning behind it. And that might be uncomfortable and you
might get, you know, a whole bunch of flack, but
in the long run, that's the proper way to do
it because The longer these people run from their relationship
with Jeffrey Epstein, the deeper the questions get Three of
(08:41):
the trips occurred when the seventy year old was serving
as Harvard's president, President Bill Clinton's former Treasury secretary, who
held the elite university between two thousand and one and
two thousand and six and was tenured economics professors there
since eighty three, resigned from the board of Open AI,
the company behind chat GPT, on Wednesday, amid a firestorm
(09:02):
over his ties to the infamous predator. Well, I call
that just desserts. All these years you were hanging out,
avoiding your relationship with Epstein, not stepping forward when everything
was brewing, not saying to the authorities, Look, I know
that you haven't contacted me, but I was around. Maybe
I saw something, Maybe I know something. That's what a
(09:23):
good decent person would do, right. How many of these
people have done that? How many of these people have
offered themselves up to be examined, to be talked, to,
to be looked at, and to say I have nothing
to do with it, and here's why. And obviously I
don't speak for anybody but myself, but I'd be much
more receptive to some shit like that than you trying
(09:43):
to hide from it. Hours later, Summers went on to
leave from his teaching role and his head of Harvard
Kennedy School. Most of our ROCKMANI center A posts held
since two thousand and one. These are the consequences that
come along with your bullshit. These are the consequences that
should have happened years ago when you were outed as
(10:04):
Epstein's guy. The fallout comes after the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee released over twenty thousand pages of documents
from Epstein's estate showing Summers had a chummy relationship with
the billionaire and exchanged thousands of emails between twenty thirteen
and twenty nineteen. So again, look, you can't act like
(10:24):
you didn't know what he was. And when you lie
about it and you try and act like the relationship
was not as deep as it really was, then people
are going to question everything you have to say why
should we believe you about anything? So that's where I'm at.
I'm not saying that Larry Summers was out here diddling
kids with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm saying that he probably knew
(10:45):
a lot more than he's letting on, and I don't
think that's that big of a jump to make now.
Of course, the question is how do you approve it? Well,
the only way to get to the bottom of it
is to get this guy under oath. Epstein, who died
by suicide in jail awaiting trial in twenty nineteen, was
convicted of sex trafficking miners in two thousand and eight.
(11:08):
The emails between Summers and the Late Creep, which continued
until the day before Epstein's twenty nineteen arrest, showed the
two men corresponding about a woman Summers was interested in,
among other topics, why are you interested in another woman?
You're married already. What are you doing? Why are you
out here creeping? That's another thing I'll never understand. What
(11:31):
is wrong with people who are out here cheating on
their wives or their husbands and acting like everything's all good.
If you don't want to be with somebody, break up
with them, yell. Budget Lab and the left leaning Center
for American Progress, two institutions Summers was affiliated with, announced
that he is no longer associated with them in the
(11:52):
wake of the email surfacing. They knew already, they just
ignored it, But now that you know, they have to
act like they're doing something right, like they can. But look,
the truth is, the relationship between Larry Summers and Jeffrey
Epstein was not some secret, was not something that was
kept in a vault in Langley, and plenty of people
(12:12):
knew just how deep these ties ran, and now after
the emails have been revealed, so does everyone else. All
of the information that goes with this episode can be
found in the description box.
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