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   Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and   
   faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year,   
   relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty   
   distinction — and remaining on leave until that time, a Harvard   
   spokesperson confirmed to The Crimson.   
      
   Summers also resigned Wednesday from his role as co-director of the   
   Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard   
   Kennedy School, a position he has held since 2011, according to the   
   spokesperson. He will not teach or take on new advisees.   
      
   The resignation marks an extraordinary unraveling for Summers, long one   
   of the most influential figures in American economics. His career   
   spanned prize-winning research, service as United States Treasury   
   Secretary, and the presidency of Harvard.   
      
   In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave   
   was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of   
   students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with   
   since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.”   
      
   “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,” he added.   
      
   Summers’ standing began to collapse after a cache of emails disclosed in   
   November revealed details of a long-standing personal relationship   
   between Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.   
      
   The correspondence revealed that Summers regularly exchanged messages   
   with Epstein about women, politics, and Harvard-linked projects over at   
   least seven years — staying in contact as late as July 2019, the day   
   before Epstein’s final arrest.   
      
   The blowback was immediate and fierce. After the initial release of the   
   emails, Summers said he would continue teaching. But as more   
   correspondence was reviewed, he announced he would step back from public   
   commitments and leave his teaching post. In the days that followed,   
   Summers stepped down or parted ways with a slew of organizations,   
   including the New York Times, Bloomberg, and OpenAI.   
      
   Shortly thereafter, the American Economic Association — the profession’s   
   foremost academic organization — issued a lifetime ban against Summers.   
      
   In response to the revelations, Harvard launched a formal review of   
   Summers’ ties to Epstein as part of a broader re-investigation into the   
   University’s historical connections to the disgraced financier. The   
   probe also encompasses other University affiliates and donors implicated   
   in the documents.   
      
   In late December, a second tranche of Epstein-related records released   
   by the Justice Department revealed that Summers had been designated as a   
   successor executor in a 2014 draft of Epstein’s will, positioning him to   
   oversee the financier’s estate if the primary executors were unable to   
   serve. (A spokesperson for Summers told The Crimson at the time that   
   Summers “had absolutely no knowledge that he was included in an early   
   version of Epstein’s will.”)   
      
   The correspondence between Summers and Epstein — which tallies thousands   
   of emails and phone calls — revealed an intimacy that far exceeded the   
   bounds of a professional relationship. Across dozens of threads, Summers   
   sought Epstein’s advice on personal matters, including his pursuit of a   
   romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee.   
      
   This is a developing story and will be updated.   
      
   https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/2/25/summers-retire-harvard-epste   
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