Larry Summers will resign from Harvard amid Epstein fallout

“I will always be grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with,” he said.

Larry Summers took a step back from his teaching duties late last year amid a review into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. | Michel Euler/AP

Larry Summers, the embattled former Treasury secretary and Harvard president, is leaving his teaching post at the higher education institution at the end of the academic year, as the fallout over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein continues to spill into public view.

“I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship,” Summers said in a statement Wednesday. “I will always be grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.“

Summers took a step back from his teaching duties late last year — and also left his job as director of Harvard’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government — amid a review into his ties to the late convicted sex offender.

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