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哈佛大学向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻证实，前财政部长拉里·萨默斯将因与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的关联，辞去其在哈佛大学的剩余职务。
哈佛大学发言人在一份声明中表示，萨默斯将在本学年结束时退休，但在此之前将继续休假。
去年11月，萨默斯与已故性犯罪者爱泼斯坦的往来信息公布后，他已暂停了公开职务。他还辞去了人工智能公司OpenAI的董事会职务，以及在彭博新闻社、《纽约时报》和美国进步中心等机构担任的众多其他职位。
萨默斯在周三的声明中说：”我已做出艰难决定，将在本学年结束时辞去哈佛教授职务。自50年前作为研究生来到哈佛以来，我有幸与数千名学生和同事共事并教学，对此我将永远心怀感激。”
自2006年萨默斯卸任哈佛校长以来，他一直担任该校描述为”最杰出教授职位之一”的查尔斯·W·艾略特大学教授，并担任哈佛大学肯尼迪学院Mossavar-Rahmani商业与政府中心联合主任。
萨默斯表示：”卸任正式职务后，作为名誉校长和退休教授，我期待日后能投身于对一系列全球经济问题的研究、分析和评论。”
2025年9月17日，拉里·萨默斯在纽约接受采访时就座。Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images
萨默斯在1999年至2001年担任比尔·克林顿总统的财政部长后，于2001年至2006年担任哈佛大学校长。2009年至2011年，他还担任奥巴马政府国家经济委员会主任。
2025年11月，众议院监督委员会公布的爱泼斯坦遗产文件中包含了数十条萨默斯与爱泼斯坦的往来信息。尽管萨默斯未被指控不当行为，但邮件显示，两人在爱泼斯坦2008年因佛罗里达州卖淫指控认罪后、2019年因联邦性交易指控被捕前，仍保持定期沟通。
爱泼斯坦2019年在纽约联邦监狱自杀身亡。近几个月来，司法部已公布数百万份爱泼斯坦相关文件。在英国，这些文件导致前安德鲁王子和英国前驻美大使彼得·曼德尔森因涉嫌公职不当行为被捕。安德鲁否认与爱泼斯坦关系中存在任何不当行为，曼德尔森的律师事务所Mishcon de Raya表示，他希望配合警方以洗清自己的名誉。
格雷厄姆·凯茨、卡罗琳·林顿和乔·沃尔什对本报道有贡献。
Larry Summers resigning from Harvard University over Jeffrey Epstein ties
Updated on: February 25, 2026 / 2:12 PM EST / CBS News
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from his remaining roles at Harvard University over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the school confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday.
Summers will retire at the end of the academic year but will remain on leave until then, a Harvard spokesperson said in a statement.
Summers stepped back from his public commitments in November after the release of messages between him and the late convicted sex offender. He also resigned from the board of AI company OpenAI and numerous other positions at such places as Bloomberg News, The New York Times, and the Center for American Progress.
“I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the end of this academic year,” 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.”
Since 2006, when Summers stepped down as Harvard’s president, he held what the university described as one of its most distinguished professorial positions, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor. He was also co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
“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,” Summers said.
Larry Summers sits during an interview in New York, Sept. 17, 2025. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Summers was Harvard’s president from 2001 to 2006 after serving as treasury secretary for then-President Bill Clinton between 1999 and 2001. He was director of the National Economic Council in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011.
Dozens of messages between Summers and Epstein were among documents from Epstein’s estate that were released by the House Oversight Committee in November. Summers has not been accused of wrongdoing, but the emails showed that the two communicated on a regular basis, even after Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida, but before he was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019.
Epstein died by suicide at a federal jail in New York City in 2019. In recent months, the Justice Department has released millions of documents from its Epstein files. In the U.K., the files have led to the arrest of former Prince Andrew as well as the country’s former ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson, on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Andrew has denied any wrongdoing in his relationship with Epstein, and Mandelson’s law firm Mishcon de Raya said he wants to cooperate with police and clear his name.
Graham Kates, Caroline Linton and Joe Walsh contributed to this report.
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