Ex-Harvard President Resigns Over Close Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein

Former Harvard president Larry Summers is resigning from his professorship over his widely reported relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers issued his resignation and will take leave through the rest of the academic year, relinquishing all duties from the university afterwards, a Harvard spokesman confirmed to the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation. The former university president and Clinton administration Treasury Secretary also confirmed the resignation in a statement to The Harvard Crimson on Wednesday.

Emails released by Congress show Summers remained in close contact with Epstein even after his 2008 guilty plea for solicitation, and even until his 2019 arrest. Summers co-directs Harvard’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, but had already stepped back from teaching after students circulated a video of him apologizing for his relationship with Epstein, saying it was “misguided.”

“Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” Summers told