Larry Summers Abruptly Goes On Leave From Harvard After Epstein Email Drop

Tamara Ceaikovski

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers abruptly went on leave Wednesday from teaching at Harvard University, where he once served as president, over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein , Summers’ spokesperson said. Summers had canceled his public commitments amid the fallout of the emails being made public and earlier Wednesday severed ties with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT . Harvard had reopened an investigation into connections