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New Epstein files: Larry Summers dined 12× with Epstein post-2008 conviction. Epstein gave Harvard $9M+ while Summers was president, securing 40+ campus visits.
Summers personally asked Epstein for $1M+ to fund his wife’s poetry project. Epstein gave dating advice after Summers got rejected.
👀Epstein repeatedly pitched his eugenics fantasy -impregnating dozens of women at his NM ranch with “genius sperm” from Nobel winners (himself included) to breed a super-race. Summers’ Harvard platform and donations helped legitimize Epstein’s access to scientists.
Summers now says he’s “deeply ashamed” and is stepping back from public roles.
Money, intimacy, and a pedophile’s master-race delusion -all in one friendship.
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>Summers personally asked Epstein for $1M+ to fund his wife’s poetry project. Epstein gave dating advice after Summers got rejected.
>Lol. Anybody want to give me a million or so for my wife's poetry project?
Who Is Larry Summers' Wife? All About Elisa New
Recently released emails between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein show that the former Harvard president sought money from the convicted sex offender for his wife's poetry foundation
By Jordana Comiter
Published on November 18, 2025 05:07PM EST
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Larry Summers at FOX Studios on May 24, 2017, in New York City ; Larry Summers and Elisa New during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 6, 2022, in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Larry Summers at FOX Studios on May 24, 2017, in New York City ; Larry Summers and Elisa New during the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 6, 2022, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Credit :
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NEED TO KNOW
Former Harvard President Larry Summers married his wife, Elisa New, in 2005
On Nov. 17, the former Treasury secretary stepped back from his public commitments following the release of emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein
One of the emails revealed that Summers had sought money from the late convicted sex offender for a poetry foundation led by New
New details are surfacing about Larry Summers' relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, including a favor Summers requested in support of his wife’s work.
The former Treasury secretary and Harvard president met his wife, Harvard professor Elisa New, through a colleague at the university. During a February 2021 conversation with the Harvard Independent, New shared that she and Summers are very different, saying, "Larry is an extrovert and I’m an introvert; he likes sports and competition and I do not."
"We are in many ways a dramatic illustration of how opposites attract," she said, before going on to explain how they found common ground. "Larry and I are both really passionate about the work we do. We both work long hours and have big goals and we support each other in those."
More recently, the pair made headlines when Summers announced on Nov. 17 that he would be stepping back from his public commitments following the release of emails between him and Epstein, which revealed that the former university president had sought romantic advice from the convicted sex offender over the years, per The New York Times. According to the outlet, the emails also revealed that Summers had sought money from the disgraced financier for a poetry foundation led by New. PEOPLE reached out to New for further comment.
Here's everything to know about Larry Summers' wife, Elisa New.
She was born in Philadelphia
Elisa New.
Elisa New.
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New was born in Philadelphia in 1958, though grew up in suburban Maryland.
Her mother, Joan New, was a party planner in Washington, while her father, Ronald New, a physicist and computer scientist, retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, where he specialized in underwater acoustics, per The New York Times.
New studied at Brandeis and Columbia University
Larry Summers during an interview on Sept. 17, 2025, in New York.
Larry Summers during an interview on Sept. 17, 2025, in New York.
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New received her bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 1980, per Harvard's faculty website.
After graduation, she went on to receive her master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1982, followed by her master's degree in philosophy in 1985, per her LinkedIn. From there, she received her Ph.D in English from the university in 1988.
>Who Is Larry Summers' Wife? All About Elisa New
New was already writing poetry when she got to Brandeis, but told the school's alumni section of their site that she felt further influenced by poetry Professor Allen Grossman.
"I was in awe of his largeness of thought and presence and generosity as a teacher. I spent hours absorbing the difficult concepts he presented," she said. "He said poetry’s highest calling is that people speak to each other across time, that we galvanize our human community by writing poetry, all the way back to the ancient poets."
New added, "I got my ambition to pursue that kind of impact from him."
She is a professor and poet
Elisa New.
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According to the Brandeis site, New has held a lot of professional titles over the years, including director of the Center for Public Humanities at Arizona State University and the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Emerita at Harvard.
New is also the host and director of PBS’ Poetry in America, a television series that is "dedicated to making poetry accessible on screens of all kinds—from public television and streaming platforms to classrooms and airlines," per her LinkedIn bio.
In addition to advocating for more poetry around the world, New has published several books of her own, including Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore: A Memoir in Five Generations, published in 2009, and New England Beyond Criticism: In Defense of America’s First Literature, published in 2014.
They were introduced by a friend
New was already writing poetry when she got to Brandeis, but told the school's alumni section of their site that she felt further influenced by poetry Professor Allen Grossman.
"I was in awe of his largeness of thought and presence and generosity as a teacher. I spent hours absorbing the difficult concepts he presented," she said. "He said poetry’s highest calling is that people speak to each other across time, that we galvanize our human community by writing poetry, all the way back to the ancient poets."
New added, "I got my ambition to pursue that kind of impact from him."
She is a professor and poet
According to the Brandeis site, New has held a lot of professional titles over the years, including director of the Center for Public Humanities at Arizona State University and the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Emerita at Harvard.
New is also the host and director of PBS’ Poetry in America, a television series that is "dedicated to making poetry accessible on screens of all kinds—from public television and streaming platforms to classrooms and airlines," per her LinkedIn bio.
In addition to advocating for more poetry around the world, New has published several books of her own, including Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore: A Memoir in Five Generations, published in 2009, and New England Beyond Criticism: In Defense of America’s First Literature, published in 2014.
They were introduced by a friend
According to the Harvard Independent, then-president Summers and New were introduced by two fellow professors from the Economics department — Natasha Lance-Rogoff and Ken Rogoff — in the fall of 2001.
New told the outlet that she had bumped into Lance-Rogoff, who told her she would find Summers "funny and irreverent," as New recalled to the outlet in February 2021. They both had recently separated (and eventually divorced) from their previous spouses in the last few months, and were both parents of three.
With some words of encouragement from Lance-Rogoff, New sent Summers an email to ask him out, and they spent several nights on the phone before meeting at a restaurant called Lala Rokh
Summers and New got married in 2005
After a few years of dating, Summers and New got engaged in October 2005, per The Harvard Crimson. Shortly after, they got married in December 2005, per The New York Times.
According to The Harvard Crimson, the ceremony took place at Elmwood — the Harvard president's residence — while the reception took place in the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Mass.
Friends, family members and colleagues — including deans from each of Harvard's schools — were in attendance.
Summers sought money from Epstein to support New's poetry foundation
In May 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that Summers previously sought $1 million from Epstein to fund an online poetry project that his wife was developing.
"I need small scale philanthropy advice. My life will be better if i raise $1m for Lisa," Summers said in an email to Epstein in April 2014, referring to New, per the outlet. "Mostly it will go to make it a pbs series and for teacher training. Ideas?"
According to the outlet, a nonprofit linked to Epstein donated $110,000 to New's nonprofit — which develops video content about poetry — in 2016, according to tax records.
The exchange between Summers and Epstein led to outrage among campus, with one professor telling The Harvard Crimson that their "cozy friendship" on display in the emails — which spanned from 2013 through 2019, the year Epstein died — is "disgusting and disgraceful."
More emails between the two surfaced in November 2025, including some in which Summers sought romantic advice from Epstein. In response, Summers announced on Nov. 17 that he would step back from public engagements, though continue to teach at Harvard.
"I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein," Summers said, per CNN. "While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me."
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Elisa New
is an American academic and the creator and host of the public television series Poetry in America, which is a multi-platform educational initiative that has been featured by the Poetry Foundation. New herself does not lead the Poetry Foundation organization.
The user's query may also be related to recent news that Elisa New's non-profit, Verse Video Education, which funds Poetry in America, received donations from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Poetry in America Initiative
Poetry in America, which first aired in 2018, aims to bring poetry into living rooms and classrooms globally through a PBS series and online courses offered in partnership with institutions like Harvard University and Arizona State University. In each episode, New, a Professor of American Literature, Emerita, at Harvard, leads discussions on American poems with diverse guests including politicians, artists, academics, and musicians.
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Elisa New: Poetry in America | InDepthNH.org
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Distinction from the Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation is an independent private foundation based in Chicago that publishes Poetry magazine and provides grants to other non-profit organizations that support the literary arts. While the Foundation has featured content related to New's series, it is a separate organization. The current President and CEO of the Poetry Foundation is Michelle T. Boone.
Recent Developments
Recent emails released by the House Oversight Committee in November 2025 show that New and her husband, Larry Summers (former Harvard president and Treasury Secretary), corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein regarding donations to New's non-profit organization. Epstein donated $110,000 to Verse Video Education in 2016 and had planned a future donation of $500,000. A spokesperson for the non-profit reported that New "regrets accepting funding from Epstein" and that the group later made an equivalent contribution to an anti-sex trafficking organization
Jeffrey Epstein donated $110,000 directly to Verse Video Education, a nonprofit organization run byElisa New (Larry Summers' wife) that funds her Poetry in America project — an educational initiative involving a PBS television series, digital courses, and video productions on American poetry.
This donation occurred around2016, years after Epstein's 2008 conviction. Reports indicate that Larry Summers sought philanthropic advice from Epstein in 2014,aiming to raise about $1 million (sometimes referenced as needing help for "$1m for Lisa" — a nickname for Elisa). Discussions involved potential larger gifts (e.g., $500,000 proposals), and Epstein also helped brokera significant donation from billionaire Leon Blackto the same project, which New described as life-changing for her work at Harvard.
The funding went specifically to support Poetry in America via New's nonprofit, not to the unrelated Poetry Foundation (a Chicago-based organization that supports poetry publication and events, with no documented Epstein ties in this context). Sources, including emails released in 2025 by a House committee, tax filings, and reporting from The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Harvard Crimson, and The Wall Street Journal, confirm the details. New has since expressed regret over accepting the funds and stated that her organization donated an amount exceeding the gift to an anti-sex-trafficking group.