June 17, 2019. Jeffrey Epstein sends Larry Summers an iMessage:

"davos is set for you."1

Summers replies: "Thx re davos. Happy to help re g20."

Nineteen days later, Epstein is arrested at Teterboro Airport.

But before that happens — in the same thread, the same three-week window — Summers tells Epstein he is "being asked for 3 names to replace mnuchin."2 Steven Mnuchin. The sitting Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. And the former Harvard president is asking a registered sex offender for input on the shortlist.

This is not a peripheral relationship. This is the relationship. And Davos is where it was built.

1,747 Documentslink

The Epstein archive contains 1,747 full-text documents and 355 email threads mentioning Davos or the World Economic Forum. That's more than Bilderberg, more than the Council on Foreign Relations, and nearly as many as the Trilateral Commission — organizations where Epstein held actual membership.

At Davos, he held something more useful: the guest list.

2018: "Davos Can Really Replace the UN"link

September 2018. Epstein is exchanging messages with Borge Brende — not a minor contact, but the sitting President of the World Economic Forum. Brende writes:

"Exactly — we need a new global architecture. World Economic Forum (Davos) is uniquely positioned — public private."3

Epstein responds:

"at the trilateral. davos can really replace the UN. cyber, crypto. genetics... intl coordination."4

Brende's reply: ":-) trust me."

A convicted sex offender is discussing the institutional future of global governance with the president of Davos. And the president is smiling.

That same month, Epstein forwards the full mission statement of the Trilateral Commission to Brende with a pitch: "bring this into the 21st century. making davos a permanent place. for discussion. not a one trick pony."5

He wasn't attending Davos. He was redesigning it.

2018: "Could You Ask Him?"link

January 25, 2018. Terje Roed-Larsen — president of the International Peace Institute, diplomat, Epstein's close associate — sends an iMessage from Davos:

"Bill Gates is here. Could you ask him if I could see him tomorrow or on Saturday morning? Trump is speaking at 2 pm tomorrow."6

Epstein replies: "I will send bill a message."

Seven years after conviction. Epstein is still the switchboard. You want Gates at Davos? You go through Epstein.

2015: The Rothschild Introductionlink

January 2015. Summers is at Davos. Epstein sends a message:

"ariane rothschild is with you at davos any chance to say hello?"7

Summers: "Yes. Tell her to email here."

Epstein is tracking who is at Davos, in real time, and brokering introductions between a former Treasury Secretary and the Rothschild banking family. At the World Economic Forum. While on the sex offender registry.

2014: "Is She Smart? Attractive?"link

July 2014. Epstein asks Summers for a favor. He wants a second nomination for the WEF Young Global Leaders program — the feeder system for Davos, the pipeline that mints the next generation of the global elite.

The nominee: Nicole Junkermann, a German businesswoman Epstein describes as "my very good friend you met once, tall german woman, 39 years old."8

Summers' first question:

"Is she smart? Attractive? To what virtues am I to attest?"9

Epstein provides the resume: organized a sports-related hedge fund, made a couple hundred million. Then asks about Kazakhs in the same breath — a consulting payment thread that would later produce wiring instructions to "LHSummers Economic Consulting."10

Summers reviews Junkermann's materials and renders his verdict:

"She is very hot."11

Three weeks later, Summers' assistant sends Epstein's office a finished recommendation letter. "I am delighted to recommend Nicole Junkermann as a Young Global Leader... She has my highest recommendation. You will not go wrong by including her."12

The subject line of the internal email: "Jeffrey asked Larry to write a recommendation."

Jeffrey asked. Larry wrote.

2014: Gates Schedules Through Epsteinlink

January 2014. Epstein emails Bill Gates directly:

"terje will be in davos if you have some time for an update."13

Gates replies, CC'ing his personal staff Robert Rosen and Larry Cohen:

"I am there Thursday through Saturday. I will ask Rob to figure out if our schedules match up."14

The tone is routine. Familiar. A man who runs the world's largest philanthropic organization is scheduling his Davos meetings through a convicted sex offender, and everyone on the CC line treats it as business as usual.

2012: The JPMorgan Asklink

January 4, 2012. Lesley Groff — Epstein's executive assistant — receives a call from Rosa in Jes Staley's office at JPMorgan:

"Rosa from Jes' office called asking if we might be able to help Jes get a one on one with Bill Gates while they are both at Davos."15

Jes Staley. The head of JPMorgan's investment bank. One of the most powerful men on Wall Street. And he can't get a meeting with Bill Gates on his own.

Two weeks later, Groff confirms: "Jeffrey said yes but he did not give any details."16

The CEO of JPMorgan needed a convicted sex offender to get access to Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum. That's not a social relationship. That's a dependency.

2011: Boris Reports from the Floorlink

January 2011. Boris Nikolic — Bill Gates' science advisor — is at Davos, sending Epstein real-time intelligence:

"In 30mn bill is meeting sarkozy to discuss various things."17

Then later:

"Just listening sarkozy plenary. The main focus is on the currency ;) Great mind thinks alike ;)"18

Epstein coaches from New York: "bills and your next big hit should be to re think the world financial system. IT is antiquated. govt can print new currency, it is still paper."

Boris also reports: "Bill is right now in UAE with a crown prince (a brother of your friend). They are signing a deal."

Epstein's response: "Tell his protocol person that bill would like you to make the invitation in person."

A sex offender is directing Gates' science advisor on what to say at Davos, how to pitch currency reform to world leaders, and when to use Gates' name for introductions. From his townhouse in Manhattan.

2011: The Guest Listlink

That same month, Epstein organizes the guest list for a Bill Gates dinner at Davos. He emails Terje Roed-Larsen:

"would you like to ask abdullah, if he would want to be invited to the bill gates dinner on wed. in Davos"19

Abdullah. As in King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Epstein is not attending as a guest. He is curating the guest list for a dinner with Bill Gates and a sitting head of state.

Boris, meanwhile, is organizing logistics: "I am organizing a cool dinner with Bill on Wednesday." Epstein reviews the Davos attendee list and responds: "jes, will be there, andrew, summers? lets talk about it."20

Andrew. As in Prince Andrew.

The proposed seating: Jes Staley. Prince Andrew. Larry Summers. At a dinner with Bill Gates. Organized by Jeffrey Epstein's people. At the World Economic Forum.

Boris also secures a private dinner — "Monday January 31 at 8:30pm @ your house. Dinner — just three of us." Three: Gates, Nikolic, Epstein.21

Later that year, Boris hunts for Davos housing. He finds a villa. Putin's people take it first:

"She found a villa in Davos that was cool but it was snatched in the front of her face by Putin's people (he will be staying there!)."22

The company Epstein kept at Davos: Gates, kings, princes, and Putin's advance team competing for the same real estate.

2010: "She'd Have an Orgasm"link

January 2010. Epstein emails Peter Mandelson — the Baron, Bilderberg attendee, former EU Trade Commissioner:

"Bill Gates would like to meet with Lady Judge the nuclear power woman, in davos.. can you organize?"23

Lady Judge: Barbara Judge, Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Mandelson's assessment:

"She's daffy, boring and phoney. She wd have an orgasm. Do you want her cell number?"24

Epstein: "He wants to meet, not me."

A convicted sex offender directing a former EU Trade Commissioner to arrange meetings for the richest man on earth with nuclear energy officials. At the World Economic Forum. Mandelson doesn't question the request. He just asks for the cell number.

The Pipelinelink

What the documents show is not a social climber who showed up to Davos parties. It's a pipeline — a system built over a decade for brokering access, placing people, and controlling the flow of power through the world's most exclusive gathering.

The system had components:

  • Boris Nikolic — the eyes inside the room, live-reporting to Epstein from the Davos floor
  • Terje Roed-Larsen — the diplomatic channel, connecting heads of state to Gates dinners
  • Peter Mandelson — the European operative, arranging meetings with nuclear officials
  • Lesley Groff — the scheduler, processing requests from JPMorgan CEOs
  • Larry Summers — the credibility engine, writing recommendation letters on command and brokering Rothschild introductions

And at the center: Epstein. Not attending. Not speaking. Operating.

He curated the guest lists. He scheduled the meetings. He placed people in the WEF Young Global Leaders program. He directed who sat where and who met whom. He proposed replacing the Treasury Secretary.

He did all of this while on the sex offender registry.

And on July 5, 2019 — one day before his arrest — Larry Summers sent him a final iMessage from Cape Cod:

"At cape w mother brothers kids and nephews nieces. Bit of an Ibsen play."25

Epstein replied: "Better than Chekov."

It was.

This article draws on the Secret Societies & Elite Power Networks research dossier. It is the ninth in the Secret Societies series.

For Epstein's role brokering access through the COUQ Foundation and CFR, see The Placement Machine. For his relationship with Henry Kissinger, including the Davos-bound flight with Pritzker, see The Kissinger Table.

Sources & Documentslink

  1. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027777 — Epstein-Summers iMessage chat, Jun 14–Jul 5, 2019. View →
  2. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026329 — Summers-Epstein email chain, Nov 2018–Jan 2019. "Replace Mnuchin" first appears Dec 25, 2018; repeated Jun 2019. View →
  3. EFTA02622851 — Borge Brende-Epstein email exchange, Sep 15–17, 2018. View →
  4. EFTA02622851 — Epstein to Brende: "davos can really replace the UN." View →
  5. EFTA02622851 — Epstein forwards Trilateral Commission mission statement to Brende. View →
  6. EFTA02669508 — Terje Roed-Larsen iMessage from Davos, Jan 25, 2018. View →
  7. EFTA02360595 — Epstein brokers Rothschild-Summers introduction at Davos, Jan 2015. View →
  8. EFTA02584951 — Epstein-Summers WEF Young Global Leader nomination thread, Jul 5–6, 2014. View →
  9. EFTA02584951 — Summers: "Is she smart? Attractive?" View →
  10. EFTA02114656 — Wiring instructions for LHSummers Economic Consulting, Mongolian Davos meeting. View →
  11. EFTA02584951 — Summers: "She is very hot." View →
  12. EFTA01750457 — Summers recommendation letter for Junkermann, Jul 25, 2014. View →
  13. EFTA01942866 — Epstein emails Gates directly re: Davos, Jan 11, 2014. View →
  14. EFTA01941700 — Gates reply: "I will ask Rob to figure out if our schedules match up." View →
  15. EFTA02016384 — Lesley Groff: Jes Staley's office requests Gates meeting at Davos, Jan 4, 2012. View →
  16. EFTA02176969 — Confirmation: "Jeffrey said yes." Jan 17, 2012. View →
  17. EFTA00902981 — Boris Nikolic live-reporting from Davos, Jan 26–27, 2011. View →
  18. EFTA00902981 — Boris on Sarkozy plenary: "The main focus is on the currency." View →
  19. EFTA01835411 — Epstein invites King Abdullah to Gates dinner at Davos, Jan 24, 2011. View →
  20. EFTA00903064 — Boris organizing Gates dinner; Epstein proposes Staley, Andrew, Summers. Jan 21–22, 2011. View →
  21. EFTA00903064 — "Monday January 31 at 8:30pm @ your house. Dinner — just three of us." View →
  22. EFTA01740827 — Boris Nikolic: Davos villa snatched by Putin's people, Nov 5, 2011. View →
  23. EFTA01821265 — Epstein to Mandelson: "Bill Gates would like to meet Lady Judge." Jan 2010. View →
  24. EFTA01821265 — Mandelson: "She's daffy, boring and phoney. She wd have an orgasm." View →
  25. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027777 — Summers: "Bit of an Ibsen play." Jul 5, 2019 — one day before arrest. View →