New Delhi, July 15 -- In one of the more striking details to emerge from the Epstein files, Lawrence Summers - former United States Treasury Secretary, former Harvard University president, and until November 2025 a board member of OpenAI - emailed Jeffrey Epstein asking for advice on how to pursue a relationship with a woman he described as a mentee. Epstein, by then a convicted sex offender more than a decade into his post-plea existence, replied that he would serve as Summers' "wing man."

eleven years after Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida.

What distinguished Summers from many others named in the files was the nature of the relationship the emails described. Epstein functioned, by the a...