India, Nov. 18 -- Larry Summers, the former United States Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president, has stepped away from public life after his email exchange with Jeffrey Epstein surfaced in the recently released emails of the disgraced financier.

What has particularly caused a ruckus is a supposed 2018-2019 exchange between Summers and Epstein about Keyu Jin, a Chinese economist who was Summers' mentee at the time.

Summers, a regular communicator with Epstein over emails, stayed in touch with him till before his arrest in 2019. Starting in November 2018, Epstein and Summers discuss Summers' romantic interest in a woman, seemingly Keyu Jin, a tenured professor at the London School of Economics at the time of the emails, acco...