Harvard economist and former University President Larry Summers has announced his resignation from teaching and other academic roles at the university, effective at the end of the current academic year. This decision follows an ongoing Harvard review triggered by recently released Department of Justice documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, which revealed a closer and more sustained relationship between Summers and the late convicted sex offender than previously known—including hundreds of mentions of Summers’ name, email exchanges on topics ranging from politics and economics to personal matters like relationships, and communications that continued even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction.