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Former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers, who served as an official in the administrations of both former president Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, sought advice from the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on how to court women.
According to newly-released emails from 2018 and 2019 – long after Epstein’s interest in minors was known – Summers emailed his friend for advice on a woman he was interested in.
“Think no response for a while probably appropriate,” Summers told Epstein in 2018 after forwarding him an email from an unnamed woman.
“She’s already begining [sic] to sound needy 🙂 nice,” Epstein replied.
Emailing Epstein again the following year for advice on a woman’s involvement with another man, Summers wrote, “Tone was not of good feeling. I dint [sic] want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits.”
“Shes smart. making you pay for past errors,” counseled Epstein. “ignore the daddy im going to go out with the motorcycle guy, you reacted well.. annoyed shows caring., no whining showed strentgh [sic].”
Just a few months after the exchange, Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking minors, and a month after that, found dead in his jail cell.
While Summers’ relationship with Epstein was already publicly known, it was previously unclear just how intimate their relationship was.
Summers served as Obama’s director of the National Economic Council between 2009 and 2011. He also served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton between 1999 and 2001, and in other Treasury roles between 1993 and 1999. He has been married to Elisa New since 2005.
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