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Former Harvard president Larry Summers will fully resign from Ivy League school over Epstein ties
New York Post ^ | nth | Anthony Blair

Posted on 02/25/2026 11:12:03 AM PST by nickcarraway

Jeffrey Epstein associate Larry Summers will resign from his Harvard University professorship over his associations with the late pedophile, a university spokesperson has said.

Summers, 71, who visited Epstein’s notorious private island, and took trips on his personal jet, “The Lolita Express,” will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, the Harvard Crimson reported Wednesday.

The former Harvard President also resigned Wednesday as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School following 15 years in the role, the spokesperson confirmed.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: epstein; fullyresign; harvard; larrysummers; resignation

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1 posted on 02/25/2026 11:12:03 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Ahhhh... he is not keeping the teaching position.


2 posted on 02/25/2026 11:14:52 AM PST by madison10
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To: nickcarraway

So many who would be our masters but in reality the worst of what humanity offers.

I pray they come to know Christ and for those who would deny Him that our Lord rain down the consequences of their desires for His Glory.


3 posted on 02/25/2026 11:15:22 AM PST by Skwor
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To: nickcarraway

And CLINTON cabinet secretary


4 posted on 02/25/2026 11:20:30 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: nickcarraway

I am the same age as Summers, though I am well into the autumn of my life. Never got invited to a pedophile island, never became friends with a sleazebag. In spite of all my own personal sins with which I have grieved my Lord over the decades, I have been protected by Him.


5 posted on 02/25/2026 11:25:59 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s fun to see the torpedos Democrat aimed at Trump circling back to sink big donors to their party. If I were them I wouldn’t donate another cent.


6 posted on 02/25/2026 11:36:53 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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Ok so he visited the island so did he or did he not have sex with underage girls?

Are we supposed to put 2 and 2 together?


7 posted on 02/25/2026 11:42:00 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: nickcarraway

Whatever happened to Weiner’s laptop?


8 posted on 02/25/2026 11:57:45 AM PST by dljordan (Yeah, I'm a Boomer and it's all my fault you whiny little bitch.)
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To: nickcarraway

The girls at Harvard aren’t young enough?


9 posted on 02/25/2026 12:13:43 PM PST by albie
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To: nickcarraway

Saw a picture of Dershowitz and Summers with Epstein.

It spoke volumes about “networking”.


10 posted on 02/25/2026 12:17:31 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: All

theharvardcrimson.com

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he sought guidance from a longtime associate: convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein. In a sequence of texts and emails between November 2018 and July 5, 2019, Summers turned to Epstein for advice on his pursuit of the woman. Epstein was quick to chime in with assurance and suggestions, describing himself in one November 2018 message as Summers’ “wing man.”

The messages became public after House Republicans released more than 20,000 files from the Epstein estate on Wednesday. Summers’ correspondence with Epstein, a financier who pled guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, ends just one day before Epstein was arrested on new sex trafficking charges. Together, the messages show Summers — who served as Treasury Secretary under former United States President Bill Clinton — placing an extraordinary degree of trust in Epstein, asking him for help in navigating a relationship that blurred the boundaries of his professional and personal lives.

Summers, who has been married since 2005, told Epstein he thought the woman was reluctant to leave him because she valued his professional connections. Epstein told him in one June 2019 text, “She is doomed to be with you.” “Think for now I’m going nowhere with her except economics mentor,” Summers wrote in November 2018. “I think I’m right now in the seen very warmly in rear view mirror category.”

“She must be very confused or maybe wants to cut me off but wants professional connection a lot and so holds to it,” Summers wrote in a March 2019 exchange to Epstein, explaining why he believed she continued to engage with him despite tensions. A spokesperson for Summers said that the woman described in the exchanges was never Summers’ student, but declined to comment further for this article.

In at least some of his exchanges with Epstein on the relationship, Summers appears to refer to macro-economist Keyu Jin ’04, a tenured professor at the London School of Economics at the time, who is mentioned in a series of late 2018 messages between the two men. In one, Summers forwarded Epstein an email from Jin asking for feedback on a paper. Summers mused to Epstein that it was “probably appropriate” to hold off on responding. “She’s already beginning to sound needy :) nice,” Epstein replied.

Jin, who earned her bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. at Harvard between 2000 and 2009, declined to comment on the months of messages between Summers and Epstein. In the messages released by the House, she does not refer to a romantic relationship with Summers. It is not clear whether she was aware that Summers shared her emails or discussed her with Epstein.

Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name “peril” but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin’s emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.

Summers’ long relationship with Epstein has been well documented, but the depth of their conversations, including over intimate matters, became public only this week. He traveled on Epstein’s private airplane on at least four occasions, including at least three times while serving as president of Harvard. Summers also met more than a dozen times with him and solicited donations from the disgraced financier for his wife, Harvard English professor emerita Elisa New. The messages released Wednesday show Summers organizing visits to Harvard on Epstein’s behalf and discussing contributions for New’s work.

“I have great regrets in my life,” Summers wrote in a Wednesday statement to The Crimson. “As I have said before, my association with Jeffrey Epstein was a major error of judgement.”

The exchanges concerning Jin’s messages and Summers’ relationship began shortly before a November 2018 investigation from the Miami Herald surfaced accusations from 80 girls and women that Epstein had abused them between 2001 and 2006, drawing on court records and interviews. Summers continued to correspond with Epstein about his relationship even after the Department of Justice opened an investigation in February 2019 into Epstein’s 2008 plea deal.

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11 posted on 02/25/2026 12:22:06 PM PST by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.)
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To: dljordan

Forget it Jake, it’s NYC .

SDNY, FBI NYC , NYPD , a trifecta of corruption .


12 posted on 02/25/2026 12:26:09 PM PST by OldHarbor
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To: Liz

Ahh. Regrets.


13 posted on 02/25/2026 12:50:11 PM PST by microgeek42
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To: microgeek42

A married Harvard type looking to score w/
an underling......that’s soap opera stuff....lol.


14 posted on 02/25/2026 12:57:01 PM PST by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.)
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To: nickcarraway

Perp walk now. Give up cooshy job - so what?


15 posted on 02/25/2026 1:05:09 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: nickcarraway

So, Summers and Dershowitz both at Harvard during the same time period.


16 posted on 02/25/2026 1:19:35 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
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To: nickcarraway

If he is resigning because he had forced sex with a 12 year old girl, plus or minus 6 years, resigning is not good enough. He needs to be prosecuted, and put out in the yard of a normal ole prison and face “the boys” everyday, many of whom have daughters.


17 posted on 02/25/2026 2:10:24 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: nickcarraway
This one of the many positive developments coming after the release of the Epstein files.

I don't see any downside to the files having been released.

18 posted on 02/25/2026 2:23:54 PM PST by Kazan
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