But emails released last week showed a cozier relationship that included Mr. Summers seeking romantic advice and trading banter with Mr. Epstein over several years. The communications stretched to 2019, long after Mr. Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges related to soliciting a minor for prostitution. In 2018, The Miami Herald published a deeply reported article about Mr. Epstein’s abuse of young girls. Mr. Epstein died while in custody in 2019, which was ruled a suicide.
Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.