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We brought you some of the prominent names that have come out from Jeffrey Epstein’s private calendar/schedules.

The Wall Street Journal reported that all these alleged meetings were scheduled after Epstein was convicted for solicitation of a minor and a lot of the news about Epstein was already out. They couldn’t guarantee that every one of the meetings in the schedule was kept. Most of the people listed claimed that the contacts with Epstein were about politics or financial matters. The notations in the calendar did not always outline the purpose of the meetings. As the WSJ noted, “Some of the documents show that their disclosures about contacts with Epstein were incomplete.” That’s one way to put it. But because people were still willing to meet with him, that helped his reputation, while he, in some of the cases, helped them with favors. A lot of the names hadn’t come out before, although some had.

Among the people they listed in their first story were William Burns, the current director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Obama official Kathryn Ruemmler, as well as leftist activist and professor Noam Chomsky. Burns’ spox said he didn’t know anything about Epstein. That says a lot about him — one way or the other — when the news was very public. So, of course, Joe Biden made him CIA head.

The WSJ is now revealing more names and/or details from the calendar including Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, and Woody Allen.

Larry Summers was the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama, and a former President of Harvard University. Even though Harvard stopped taking donations from Epstein after his guilty plea in 2008, Summers continued to meet with Epstein.

Mr. Summers didn’t solicit donations for Harvard from Epstein after his conviction and didn’t personally receive money from him, his spokeswoman said. “Their interactions primarily focused on global economic issues,” she said.

But he did solicit donations for Ms. New, his wife. In 2014, Ms. New, a professor of English, was hoping to expand to the general public her Harvard coursework about poetry. She established the nonprofit that received the Epstein donation and later created a public-television series, the spokeswoman said.

Summers wanted a million dollars for his wife’s project. Her nonprofit got $110,000 from a non-profit connected to Epstein.

A spokesperson for the couple said that they regretted knowing Epstein and New had donated more than what her non-profit got to a “group working against sex trafficking,”

Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, lived in the same neighborhood as Epstein and they were friends. Woody Allen invited Epstein to film screenings.

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Allen was a frequent guest at Epstein’s home. They got together “nearly every month in 2014 and 2015.” Allen’s spokesperson admitted Woody was “frequently invited to dinner parties at his townhouse,” but claimed “There were always other guests at those gatherings,” he never had a “business meeting with Epstein” and “not once spent time with him without Soon-Yi also being present.”

As I reported in the last story, Noam Chomsky was, according to the calendar, supposed to fly with Epstein to have dinner with Woody and Soon-Yi, and he got salty when asked about it by the WSJ. Chomsky said if there was a flight it would only have been “thirty minutes” from Boston to New York. “I am unaware of the principle that requires I inform you about an evening spent with a great artist.” Chomsky was disturbed that the WSJ dared ask him questions about Epstein and told them in his initial email it was none of their business.

Terje Rød-Larsen, a Norwegian diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo Accords, visited Epstein’s private island, visited the NY townhouse dozens of times from 2013-2017, so much that “the staff knew to have cucumbers on hand for his gin.” He also got a $130,000 personal loan from Epstein and accepted about $650,000 in donations from Epstein foundations for the International Peace Institute, a non-profit he was the president of. He resigned in 2020 after the news came out about his townhouse visits.

Ehud Barak the former prime minister of Israel had at least 36 meetings with Epstein between 2013 and 2017. At one point he had a meeting every month for 11 consecutive months.

“I flew only twice on his airplane, together with my wife and Israeli security detail,” Mr. Barak said. He said he remembers the trip in Florida was to visit a U.S. military installation in Tampa.

“I never participated in any party or any other improper event around [Epstein], and never met him with girls or minors, or even adult women in improper context or behavior,” Mr. Barak said.

Reid Hoffman the billionaire LinkedIn cofounder and Democratic donor, who has been in the news for reportedly bankrolling the E. Jean Carroll suit against former President Donald Trump, was also in the calendar. The fact that he was backing it tells you all you need to know about what it’s about — trying to incapacitate Trump. But Hoffman had to explain himself.

The calendar revealed that Hoffman planned to visit Epstein’s island in March 2014 and November 2014. He and the director of MIT’s Media Lab, Joi Ito, were scheduled to fly with Epstein on that second date from Palm Beach to the island for the weekend and then go to Boston.

When the venture capitalist had a flight scheduled to land late at night in New York on Dec. 4, 2014, Epstein arranged for Mr. Hoffman to stay overnight in his townhouse, the documents show. The following morning, Mr. Hoffman was scheduled to attend a “breakfast party” with Epstein, Mr. Gates and others, according to the documents.

Mr. Hoffman told the Journal he only once visited Epstein’s island residence, Little St. James, for an MIT fundraising trip with Mr. Ito. He said he regrets ever meeting with Epstein and his last interaction with Epstein was in 2015.

Hoffman said he was discussing science projects at universities, “While I relied on MIT’s endorsement, ultimately I made the mistake,” he said, “and I am sorry for my personal misjudgment.”

That, from Hoffman, just might be the understatement of the year.

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