Overview
- Summers will stop teaching immediately and is taking leave as director of Harvard’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center, with co‑teachers completing the remaining classes and no courses scheduled for him next semester.
- He resigned from OpenAI’s board as part of stepping back from public commitments following disclosure of his emails with Jeffrey Epstein.
- House Oversight Committee materials show years of messages through 2019 in which Summers sought relationship advice and Epstein described himself as a “wing man.”
- Multiple affiliations have been ended or paused, including roles with the Center for American Progress, Center for Global Development, Yale’s Budget Lab, and contributor arrangements with the New York Times and Bloomberg, with other advisory ties also dropped.
- A new law signed by the president requires the Justice Department to release additional Epstein files within 30 days, and reporting to date indicates no public evidence links Summers to Epstein’s sex‑trafficking crimes.