Even as the disgraced financier’s crimes were revealed, newly released emails show how academics at top universities stuck by Jeffrey Epstein, often seeking his help and offering it in return.
Lawrence Krauss asked Jeffrey Epstein for advice when he was facing sexual harassment allegations in late 2017. Mr. Krauss was a professor at Arizona State University at the time.
The former Harvard president has come back from controversy before, but revelations in new Epstein emails are threatening his omnipresence in public life.
Lawrence H. Summers resigned from the Harvard presidency decades ago after he was criticized over statements about women. But he remained a powerful public figure.
The university is reviewing newly released emails between the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president, and others at the institution.
The student, the president of the school’s College Republicans club, said he reported immigrant carwash workers. Now he is facing online attacks after nine of the workers were detained.