Overview
- The newly public tranche includes thousands of messages from 2013 to March 2019 showing Larry Summers in regular, congenial contact with Jeffrey Epstein about Harvard matters, politics, and personal topics.
- Exchanges include controversial remarks from Summers in 2017 about admissions and women, as well as a 2019 thread seeking Epstein’s advice on a romantic pursuit.
- Harvard professors publicly condemned the correspondence as disgraceful, while Summers reiterated that his association with Epstein was a major error of judgment.
- The broader release followed Democrats publishing separate emails earlier in the week, and President Trump said he would ask the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate Epstein’s ties to Summers and others.
- Advocacy voices urged institutions connected to Summers — including OpenAI, Harvard, Bloomberg, and the New York Times — to sever ties, while those organizations declined to comment or did not respond.