AI pioneer accused of having sex with trafficking victim on Jeffrey Epstein’s island
Jeffrey Epstein with Professor Marvin Minsky | Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images
A victim of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein testified that she was forced to 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 deal. More recently, he was arrested on charges of sex trafficking amid a flood of new allegations.
Minsky, who died in 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 and former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, among others.
The accusation against Minsky was made by Virginia Giuffre, who was deposed in May 2016 as part of a broader...