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Former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Larry Summers resigned from OpenAI’s board amid fallout from his correspondence with disgraced late financier Jeffery Epstein.
OpenAI’s board responded to the announcement, saying, “Larry has decided to resign from the OpenAI Board of Directors, and we respect his decision. We appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brings to the board.”
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Summers’ decision to step back from multiple public roles comes after the publication of seven years of correspondence with Epstein.
In a statement released Monday to The Harvard Crimson, Summers said his decision to step away from public positions was part of an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me.”
American economist and Harvard University professor Lawrence H. Summers during an interview at Taj Place on September 30, 2024 in New Delhi, India. (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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The documents revealed that Summers and Epstein did not correspond until July 5, 2019, the day before the disgraced financier was arrested on sex trafficking charges. In the messages, Summers confided in Epstein about his pursuit of a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee.
Among the messages released was one from November 2018, in which Epstein describes himself as Summers’ “wing man” as he continued to advise Summers about the relationship for months.
People walk through the gates of Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on June 29, 2023. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images/Getty Images)
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On Tuesday, The Harvard Crimson reported that the Ivy League university opened an investigation into Summers’ relationship with Epstein.
“The University is conducting an investigation into information about individuals at Harvard contained in the recently released Jeffrey Epstein documents to evaluate what actions may be justified,” Harvard spokesman Jonathan L. Swain wrote in a statement to the student newspaper.
Harvard had its lawyers conduct an in-depth investigation into the Ivy League university’s ties to Epstein in 2020. The new investigation will also include investigation into Harvard affiliates involved in the documents, including Summers’ wife, according to the student newspaper.
