From the NY Times: Harvard has started a new review of ties that its former president, Lawrence H. Summers, and others at the institution had with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the university. The school will examine a newly released batch of Mr. Epstein’s emails that include communications with Mr. Summers and others, The Boston Globe and The Harvard Crimson first reported... Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Summers declined to comment about the review. Harvard released a report in 2020 about Mr. Epstein’s ties to the university, and Mr. Summers’s relationship with him was previously known. But the emails released last week show that Mr. Summers had corresponded regularly with Mr. Epstein for years, suggesting a far more intimate relationship than was previously known.
The new batch of emails include exchanges in 2015 between Mr. Epstein and Summers’ wife, Elisa New, a Harvard literature professor emeritus, in which Ms. New expresses gratitude for a donation arranged by Mr. Epstein: “Finally, Jeffrey, you have been such a wonderful supporter of my Poetry in America project. The Leon Black gift changed everything for me last year.” She added, “The gift woke up the Deans to the importance of Harvard’s role in producing the highest quality humanities content for the WORLD.” In a statement on Wednesday, Ms. New wrote that she regretted accepting Mr. Epstein’s donation and staying in contact with him...
Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/harvard-summers-epstein-investigation.html.
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