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Former Harvard president Larry Summers is retreating from his high-profile public roles after new disclosures revealed years of personal correspondence with disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The move was first reported by The Harvard Crimson, which obtained Summers’ statement amid growing fallout from the House Oversight Committee’s release of seven years of emails between the former Treasury secretary and Epstein — a man deeply embedded in Democratic donor circles for decades.
Summers, a fixture in establishment Democratic politics, told The Crimson his decision to withdraw from public life is part of a personal effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
The newly released communications show that Summers maintained contact with Epstein as recently as July 5, 2019 — literally one day before Epstein was arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges and long after Epstein’s earlier conviction for procuring a minor for prostitution. The hundreds of messages reveal a troubling relationship in which Summers appeared to confide in Epstein and even sought his guidance regarding a romantic pursuit involving a young woman he referred to as a mentee, according to Fox News.
In one message from November 2018, Epstein casually referred to himself as Summers’ “wing man,” and the exchanges suggest he continued advising the former Harvard president for months.
Summers acknowledged the severity of the revelations in his statement. “I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused,” he wrote. “I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein.”
Despite the scandal, Summers still holds influential positions across the left-leaning policy and corporate world. He remains a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, serves as a paid columnist for Bloomberg News, sits on the board at OpenAI, and continues as a University Professor at Harvard. His spokesperson confirmed that Summers will retain his academic and administrative duties at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
However, Summers announced he would be stepping back from the more public-facing aspects of his career. “While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort,” he said Monday.
The controversy comes as Democrats face fresh scrutiny over their connections to Epstein and his network — a network that continues to ensnare prominent figures. At the same time, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is facing serious backlash after releasing private prison emails written by Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime accomplice and convicted human trafficker.
Attorney Leah Saffian, representing Maxwell, accused Raskin of weaponizing congressional authority. She condemned his actions as “a gross abuse of power,” noting that multiple employees at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas were fired for leaking the emails — emails that were reportedly obtained unlawfully before being funneled into Raskin’s office and then made public.
“The congressman is a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, an attorney and law professor,” Saffian said Friday. “He must be aware that his conduct undermines the whole legal process. His action should be a matter for professional disciplinary action.”
The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the termination of several staff members who accessed the messages without authorization. Saffian argued that both the leak and Raskin’s publication violated “constitutional protections, including the First, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments afforded to all prisoners.”
The emails themselves depict a surprisingly upbeat Maxwell describing her experience at the Bryan facility — a stark contrast to her previous conditions in Florida. “The food is legions better, the place is clean, the staff responsive and polite,” she wrote. “I have not seen a single fight, drug deal, passed-out person or naked inmate running around. I am much, much happier here and more importantly, safe.”
In another email, Maxwell mocked the squalor of her former facility: “The kitchen looks clean too — no possums falling from the ceiling to fry on ovens and mingle with the food being served.”
Saffian argued that the leak of the messages is “just the latest example of Ms. Maxwell’s constitutional and human rights being ridden roughshod over,” noting that the Justice Department’s inspector general has already documented severe deficiencies in the Tallahassee facility where Maxwell was once housed.