Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard University amid a campus review of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Harvard University announced Wednesday.
Summers, who has been on leave since November and whose name appears hundreds of times in newly released Epstein files, will leave at the end of the academic year, according to a statement from Harvard spokesman Jason Newton.
“Professor Summers has announced that he will retire from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of this academic year and will remain on leave until that time,” Newton said.
A message to Summers was not immediately returned.
Summers served as Secretary of the Treasury under former President Bill Clinton and went on to lead Harvard University as president for five years beginning in 2001.
It’s the latest fallout from the Justice Department’s recent release of millions of pages of records related to Epstein and his ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. Resignations were widespread in academic, legal and business circles.
In Britain, former Prince Andrew and former diplomat Peter Mandelson were arrested over their links to Epstein and Maxwell.
Copyright © 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.