India, Nov. 19 -- Harvard is initiating an inquiry into the relationship between former university president Larry Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, following the release of a substantial number of emails last week that revealed years of personal communication between the two individuals, a Harvard spokesperson told the university's newspaper, The Crimson, on Tuesday.

The probe will also investigate the involvement of other individuals connected to the university who are mentioned in the tens of thousands of documents released by the House Oversight Committee. This includes Summers' spouse, a professor emerita of American literature at Harvard, as well as nearly a dozen current and former affiliates of the university, a...