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Former Harvard University President Larry Summers has announced he will step back from public commitments, according to the Ivy League college’s student newspaper.
In a statement released Monday to The Harvard Crimson, Summers said it was part of an effort to “rebuild trust and repair relationships with those closest to me.”
The announcement comes after the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released seven years of correspondence between Summers and disgraced financier Jeffrey E. Epstein.
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Former Harvard president Larry Summers is withdrawing from public commitments amid revelations of his continued communications with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The documents revealed that the two men continued to exchange messages until July 5, 2019, just a day before Epstein’s arrest on new sex-trafficking charges.
In hundreds of messages released, Summers also appeared to confide in Epstein and tell him about exploring a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a protégé.
One of the messages released was from November 2018 in which Epstein describes himself as Summers’ “wing man”, as he advised Summers on the relationship for months.
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Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04. Epstein has been linked to a number of prominent people, including politicians, actors and academics. Epstein was convicted of having sex with an underage woman. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)
“I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused,” Summers wrote in his statement to the Crimson.
“I take full responsibility for my wrong decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” he said.
Summers has many roles in her professional life. He is a senior fellow at the think tank Center for American Progress, a paid columnist for Bloomberg News, and a board member at OpenAI.
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Larry Summers, President Emeritus and Professor of Harvard University, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (Stephen Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He also remains a university professor at Harvard and serves as director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, which he will continue to oversee, his spokesperson said, according to the outlet.
In a Monday statement, the former Harvard president said: “While fulfilling my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as part of my broader effort.”
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