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A victim of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein testified that she was forced khổng lồ have sex with MIT professor Marvin Minsky, as revealed in a newly unsealed deposition. Epstein was registered as a sex offender in 2008 as part of a controversial plea giảm giá khuyến mãi. More recently, he was arrested on charges of sex trafficking amid a flood of new allegations.
Minsky, who died in năm 2016, was known as an associate of Epstein, but this is the first direct accusation implicating the AI pioneer in Epstein’s broader sex trafficking network. The deposition also names Prince Andrew of Britain & former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, aao ước others.
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The accusation against Minsky was made by Virginia Giuffre, who was deposed in May 2016 as part of a broader defamation suit between her và an Epstein associate named Ghislaine Maxwell. In the deposition, Giuffre says she was directed to lớn have sầu sex with Minsky when he visited Epstein’s compound in the US Virgin Islands.
A separate witness lent credence to lớn Giuffre’s account, testifying that she & Minsky had taken a private plane from Teterboro to Santa Fe & Palm Beach in March 2001. Epstein, Maxwell, chef Adam Perry Lang, và shipping heir Henry Jarecki were also passengers on the flight, according to lớn the deposition. At the time of the flight, Giuffre was 17; Minsky was 73.
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A pivotal thành viên of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, Marvin Minsky pioneered early self-training algorithms, most notably in his 1969 book Perceptrons. He also developed the first head-mounted display, a precursor to lớn modern VR & augmented reality systems.
Minsky was one of a number of prominent scientists with ties to lớn Jeffrey Epstein, who often called himself a “science philanthropist” and donated lớn research projects and academic institutions. Many of those scientists were affiliated with Harvard, including physicist Lawrence Krauss, geneticist George Church, and cognitive sầu psychologist Steven Pinker. Minsky’s affiliation with Epstein went particularly deep, including organizing a two-day symposium on artificial intelligence at Epstein’s private island in 2002, as reported by Slate. In 2012, the Jeffrey Epstein Foundation issued a press release touting another conference organized by Minsky on the isl& in December 2011.
That private islvà is alleged lớn have been the site of an immense sex trafficking ring. But Epstein associates have sầu argued that those crimes were not apparent to lớn Epstein’s social relations, despite the presence of young women at many of his gatherings.
“These people were seen not only by me,” Alan Dershowitz argued in a năm ngoái deposition. “They were seen by Larry Summers, they were seen by
“There was no hint or suggestion of anything sexual or improper in the presence of these people,” Dershowitz continued.
