Overview
- Harvard Kennedy School Dean Jeremy Weinstein accepted Summers’ resignation from the Mossavar‑Rahmani Center for Business and Government in connection with the university’s review.
- Summers will remain on leave through the end of the academic year and will not teach or take new advisees before retiring from his faculty appointments.
- Documents released by the Justice Department and Congress show years of personal correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, including emails seeking romantic advice and exchanges through July 5, 2019.
- A spokesman said Summers and his wife made a brief visit to Epstein’s private island during their 2005 honeymoon.
- Summers has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing; he apologized in November and had already stepped back from outside roles, including the OpenAI board, after receiving a lifetime ban from the American Economic Association.