Former Harvard President Larry Summers will fully resign from Ivy League over Jeffrey Epstein ties

Jeffrey Epstein associate Larry Summers will resign from his Harvard University professorship over his associations with the late pedophile, a university spokesperson has said.

Summers, 71, who visited Epstein’s notorious private island, and took trips on his private jet, “The Lolita Express,” will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, the Harvard Crimson reported Wednesday.

The former Harvard President also resigned Wednesday as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School following 15 years in the role, the spokesperson confirmed.

Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, the Harvard Crimson reported. Bloomberg via Getty Images

Calling the decision to resign “difficult,” the former US Treasury Secretary said he remained “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.”

“Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added in a statement to the Crimson.

Summers, a pal of both Obama and the Clintons, has seen his world and status collapse in just a matter of months, following November’s release of his extensive communications with convicted sex offender Epstein.

The pair regularly messaged each other about women, politics, and Harvard-linked projects, the emails released by the Department of Justice show.

Summers’s last correspondence with Epstein came in July 2019, a day before his arrest and just weeks after the former Wall Street financier was found dead in his New York prison cell.