Harvard University Professor Larry Summers has come under scrutiny after emails emerged revealing he sought romantic advice from Jeffrey Epstein.

The House Oversight Committee recently unveiled a substantial collection of emails from Epstein, including several from Summers, a prominent figure at Harvard, who referred to Epstein as his ‘wingman.’

In exchanges spanning from 2013 to 2019, Summers and Epstein discussed politics and current events, while also delving into Summers’ personal life.

The 70-year-old economist expressed frustrations to Epstein about feeling like “the friend without benefits” in a relationship that ended in 2019. He even solicited Epstein’s advice on how to respond to text messages from a woman who had rejected him.

These communications took place years after Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea for sex crimes involving minors, a period during which Harvard had already ceased accepting his donations due to the allegations.

The revelation of these emails has led Senator Elizabeth Warren to call for Harvard to sever ties with Summers, who previously served as the university’s president, as well as the U.S. Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton and Director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama.

Warren told CNN she believes Summers ‘cannot be trusted’ with young college students given his lengthy friendship with Epstein. 

The House Oversight Committee released a vast tranche of Epstein emails last week, including several sent by one of Harvard’s most distinguished professors Larry Summers (pictured)  

In email exchanges dated between 2013 and 2019, Summers and Epstein frequently shared their thoughts about current events and politics – while also delving into the married economics professor’s love life. (Pictured: Epstein smiling at Summers, pictured front right)

Summers is married to Elisa New, who is a professor emerita of American Literature at Harvard. It’s unclear whether they have an open relationship or if he was cheating on his partner of now-20 years. 

In one March 2019 email, Summers complained to Epstein that he was concerned that the attention he was giving one woman may not pay off in the form of sexual reward. 

‘I dint (sic) want to be in a gift giving competition while being the friend without benefits,’ he wrote. 

Summers analyzed his exchange with the woman in classic economic terms, by weighing up how he could maximize profit from what he gave. 

Epstein praised the hopeless professor for his efforts, writing that his lack of ‘whining’ to the woman ‘showed strength’. 

The economics professor then whined that the woman had abandoned plans with him for another man she was ‘really attracted’ to but was ‘unsuitable as a partner’. 

He told Epstein he could not criticize her for this due to their power dynamic, and because he had canceled on her thanks to ‘family and work constraints’ in the past.

‘Should I just wait for her to call?’ he asked the sex offender, while suggesting that he could alternatively tell the woman she had ‘used up 80 percent of what she was owed’ by making him change his plans. 

Epstein also referred to himself in some emails as Summers’ ‘wingman’, according to the Harvard Crimson.  

Summers analyzed his exchange with the woman in classic economic terms, by weighing up how he could maximize profit from what he gave in the exchange with Epstein

In November 2018, Summers also forwarded an email from a woman to Epstein in order to ask his advice on what he should write back. 

‘Think no response for a while probably appropriate,’ Summers wrote, according to CNN. 

‘she’s already beginning to sound needy 🙂 nice,’ Epstein replied in part. 

The previous year, in October 2017, Summers raged to Epstein that men could be banned from a social media site or a think tank because ‘they hit on a few women 10 years ago’. 

Summers told The Harvard Crimson on Wednesday that he regretted his friendship with Epstein. 

‘I have great regrets in my life. As I have said before, my association with Jeffrey Epstein was a major error of judgment,’ he said. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to Summers for comment.