Larry Summers, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary, is resigning from Harvard University as fallout continues over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

In a statement issued Wednesday, Summers said, "I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the end of this academic year".

Summers has faced criticism since the U.S. House Oversight Committee released documents detailing ongoing personal correspondence between him and Epstein.

However, no evidence of wrongdoing has emerged from those documents or from subsequent releases of the so-called Epstein files by the Justice Department.

Summers had already stepped away from teaching roles at Harvard and taken leave as director of a business and government school at the university after Harvard announced in November that it would investigate individuals named in the files.

A spokesperson stated that Harvard’s Kennedy School accepted Summers’ resignation "in connection with the ongoing review by the University of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that were recently released by the government".

In November, Summers also resigned from the board of OpenAI.

At that time, he said he was deeply ashamed of his actions and stated he would step back from public commitments to repair relationships with those closest to him.