Jeffery Epstein Met with Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers and Woody Allen (opens in new tab)

What about the famous persons who met with him after he was a convicted sex offender?

"Jeffrey Epstein Was a Sex Offender. The Powerful Welcomed Him Anyway." - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...

One important thing is when the meetings took place. Epstein was convicted in 2008. It says a lot that they are willing to overlook it.

It sounds like the emails were 2013 to 2016.

Yes, there's a real "conspiracy theory" vibe to all of this - I think it seems like people want to imply all these people are part of some kind of sex-ring or something, when there's an obvious and benign explanation for all of it. You can plausibly accuse many of the people who took meetings of being greedy, but that's about it. This is just people trying to score cheap political points.

Non-customers were on his free tier and were simply acquaintances. It's likely that many didn't upgrade to his VIP (Very Important Pedo) tier.

Woody Allen seems to be the only sus guy in that list on the surface of it. lol. His name sticks out like a sore thumb.

I wish we could detach people from their work.

I was/am abrasive unfortunately, I'm working on it, but I still suck. I especially cannot handle when people give false knowledge, I will make a fool of myself if I see someone lying or misleading.

I also run a popular website, specifically educating people on a niche field of education. I've seen people write off all the data collected and conclusions because of my personal behavior. I don't even disagree about my personal behavior. Just leave my scientific contributions out of it.

I will be dead and people will be reading my conclusions, while I'm alive, it seems to always come up(in online discussions).

It's unfortunately an unwinnable situation, from an external perspective.

You shouldn't have to defend yourself by explaining personal details of your life just because you once met with a wealthy businessman who turned out to be a criminal, especially one who made a point of making as many connections as possible, and especially considering that people will furiously point the finger at you if you even so much as smell like you might be one of their political enemies.

On the other hand, that's also a convenient excuse if you really did happen to collude in his crime.

Given that MIT received a large donation from Eppstein, it wouldn't be too surprising that Chomsky, an MIT employee, had a meeting with him.

Given Chomsky's current age, I think it would be unfortunate and unprofitable to question him. He does not have the same vitality and lucidity now as he did when he was interviewing Foucault.

If you want to know more about Eppstein, you should go to Joichi Ito.

Yeah huge L for chomsky, bummer always enjoyed his stuff even if I almost never agreed with it

Yeah, despite all of the publicity, the Epstein story is really still underreported.

The only publicly known and documented source of Epstein's wealth is gifts of stock and real estate from Les Wexner. Any claims to the effect he was some sort of legitimate "financier" (which is still the widespread perception) are completely unsupported by evidence, which would be abundantly available in the form of trading and other financial records.

The Summers connection described in the article is a little more than a chance meeting at an event. In addition to their earlier ties, the article says that he and Epstein met more than a dozen times after Epstein's conviction and prison stint. Summers reached out to Epstein to raise money for his wife's $1M online poetry nonprofit (LOL) and Epstein donated $110k. The nonprofit eventually donated a large amount to an anti-sex-trafficking organization to make up for taking the Epstein money, but the fact that they solicited the money after Epstein's conviction suggests that their backtracking was more for PR than for actual concern about his history.

Or it suggests the victims have been silenced with a mix of out-of-court settlements and threats. Some victims have testified that Ghislaine Maxwell would explicitly and openly threaten their lives in the event they spoke with any authorities. Maria Farmer reported Epstein to the FBI in the 1990s and the investigation was spiked.