Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is stepping back from his duties at Harvard University amid renewed scrutiny of his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers will take a leave from his role leading a Harvard research center and co-instructors will take over his courses for the rest of the semester, a spokesperson said Wednesday. The university confirmed the decision.

It was the latest fallout from emails released last week that included embarrassing revelations about the relationship between Summers and the late convicted sex offender.

Jeffrey Goldberg, a spokesperson for Summers, told POLITICO in a statement that Summers will leave his role as director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government as Harvard investigates his ties to Epstein.

Summers, a tenured professor at the university, is not scheduled to teach next semester, Goldberg said.

The Harvard Crimson first reported Summers’ decision to step away from his duties at the university, which has said it will investigate his ties to Epstein.

Summers’ connections to Epstein, a donor to Harvard, were previously known, but the emails released last week added new details — including that the former Cabinet secretary sought Epstein’s advice while pursuing a romantic relationship with a mentee in a series of messages exchanged in 2018 and 2019.

Summers, who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, left his role as president of Harvard in 2006 after facing criticism for a 2005 speech in which he cited a controversial theory that supposes men are more prone to extremely high or low IQs than women.

Summers told POLITICO in a statement Monday that he is “deeply ashamed” of his actions and takes “full responsibility” for continuing to communicate with Epstein. He also resigned from the board of directors of the OpenAI Foundation in the wake of the revelations after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and a senior Trump administration official called on institutions to cut ties with Summers.

President Donald Trump remarked on Summers’ decision in a Wednesday evening social media post, writing that Epstein “was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures, such as … Larry Summers.”

Trump, who signed a bill on Wednesday ordering the Justice Department to release its unclassified files related to Epstein, has repeatedly sought to tie the disgraced financier to Democrats.