LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman joked about ice cream for the girls in gift to Jeffrey Epstein after staying at his island: report

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s private island and at his Upper East Side townhouse, sent the dead pedophile ice cream “either for yourself or for ‘the girls,’” and once hosted him at a dinner with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, emails and documents show.According to the trove of files recently released by the Department of Justice, Hoffman kept in contact with Epstein for years following the financier’s 2008 conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution — a relationship now drawing scrutiny as the billionaire venture capitalist has emerged as a major donor to the Democratic Party.In one 2014 email introducing Epstein to a foreign diplomat, Hoffman, who had previously downplayed his ties to the disgraced financier, praised his judgment, according to the documents, which were earlier reported on by Bloomberg News.“Jeffrey has exquisite taste in people (myself excepted),” Hoffman wrote.The recipient of the email, Hardeep Singh Puri, who served as India’s ambassador to the United Nations and is currently that country’s oil minister, is facing calls to step down in light of the Epstein revelations.Puri, who has denied any wrongdoing, was not immediately available for comment.Hoffman and MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito, who is said to have introduced the tech mogul to Epstein, boarded a private flight to Epstein’s island in the US Virgin Islands in November 2014, according to emails reviewed by Bloomberg News.Days later, Epstein paid for Hoffman to fly to New York, where he spent the night at Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse before attending a breakfast the financier organized with Bill Gates and other high-profile guests.On Christmas Eve, Hoffman told Epstein he had sent two gifts — a surfer statue for the island and ice cream “either for yourself or for ‘the girls,’” according to the report.Gates, who met several times with Epstein after his 2008 guilty plea, recently admitted to havin...