LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman visited Jeffrey Epstein’s non-public island, deliberate to go to NYC mansion
Billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman visited Jeffrey Epstein’s non-public island and had plans to remain at Epstein’s infamous Manhattan townhouse again in 2014, a brand new report revealed.
Hoffman, 55, paid a single go to to Epstein’s Caribbean island Little St. James — often known as “pedophile island,” the place Epstein and gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly abused underage ladies, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Joi Ito, the then-MIT Media Lab director, was additionally in attendance, and had requested Hoffman and Epstein to assist him elevate funds for MIT, in accordance new paperwork obtained by The Journal.
Ito confirmed Hoffman’s involvement within the MIT fundraising on Epstein’s island in an e mail to The Journal.
“Reid attended a couple of fundraising occasions at my request, together with one journey to Little St. James, after I confirmed to Reid that Mr. Epstein had been an authorised donor goal for MIT in accordance with college guidelines and laws,” he wrote.
Hoffman additionally penned an e mail to The Journal apologizing for ever assembly with the convicted intercourse offender. “Whereas I relied on MIT’s endorsement, finally I made the error, and I’m sorry for my private misjudgment,” Hoffman wrote.
The Submit has reached out to Hoffman for remark.
Hoffman and Ito had been planning to revisit Epstein Island in November 2014, the paperwork revealed. Following the journey, Hoffman and Ito had been scheduled to journey with Epstein from Palm Seashore to his tropical residence, after which from the island to Boston.
The intent behind the journeys weren’t revealed, though Epstein did own a Florida mansion the place he was mentioned to have sexually abused underage ladies and younger ladies.
The paperwork additionally detailed Hoffman’s plans to remain the night time in Epstein’s townhouse following a late-night flight to Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2014. Within the morning, the enterprise capitalist deliberate to attend a “breakfast celebration” the place the likes of Epstein and Invoice Gates had been scheduled to be in attendance.
Epstein’s former Manhattan residence, positioned at 9 E. 71st Avenue, since sold for just under $50 million in 2021, and the money was used to replenish Epstein victims’ compensation fund.
Hoffman, who’s now price $2 billion, confirmed to The Journal that his final interplay with Epstein was in 2015. That yr, he invited Epstein to a dinner in Palo Alto with Silicon Valley heads.
“It gnaws me that, by lending my affiliation, I helped his repute, and thus delayed justice for his survivors,” he wrote in an e mail to The Journal.
Ito, in the meantime, resigned from his place at MIT Media Lab following Epstein’s 2019 arrest, and apologized for accepting any cash from the disgraced financier. MIT later donated $850,000 to nonprofits helping sexual abuse survivors, The Journal reported.
