In 2014, Epstein named Summers as an alternative executor to his will, according to an email written by a Manhattan prosecutor.

Two years before that, Epstein had named Andrew Farkas, a Harvard graduate and chair of the Hasty Pudding Institute, as an alternate executor, the DOJ documents show.

In an email to the Globe Tuesday, a spokesperson for Summers said: “Mr. Summers had absolutely no knowledge that he was included in an early version of Epstein’s will and had no involvement in his financial matters or the administration of his estate.”

The DOJ records also show that Epstein referred Summers to JP Morgan as a potential client and arranged for him to meet with an executive at the bank.

According to a 2023 legal filing, JP Morgan was asked to identify “all clients or potential clients” that Epstein referred or “introduced” to the bank.

Epstein and Summers communicated frequently. Emails show that their relationship continued for a decade after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 to federal charges for soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.

Summers has never been accused of wrongdoing related to Epstein but recent public repercussions over his relationship with Epstein has resulted in Summers stepping down from teaching at Harvard and being expelled from the American Economic Association.

While negotiating his plea deal in Florida in 2008, Epstein mentioned funding grants at Harvard. He said his Florida Science Foundation had supported many initiatives.

“There is a full program of Evolutionary Dynamics, Neuro Science Institute of California, the Physics Institute, MIT,” Epstein said.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a photo from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that shows Epstein and Alan Dershowitz.House Oversight Committee

Famed former Harvard Law professor, Alan Dershowitz, who was on Epstein’s legal team in Florida, also surfaces many times in the newly released documents.

In a 2016 legal filing, Dershowitz noted Epstein’s ties to Summers. At the time, Dershowitz was accused of sexually abusing one of Epstein underage survivors, allegations he has adamantly denied.

Dershowitz, according to the DOJ documents, said he was being falsely accused because of his association with Epstein, something shared by many leading scholars.

“Jeffrey Epstein was heavily involved in funding academic research at Harvard and kept an office there, and he was consequently friendly with many academics, including David Gergen, Marvin Minsky, Larry Summers, Stephen Kosslyn, Henry Rosovsky, Howard Gardner, and Stephen Jay Gould, among others,” Dershowitz said in the filing.

“Many of these academics engaged in the same behavior that apparently led [an attorney] . . . to believe Ms. [Virginia] Giuffre’s allegations that I had abused her,” Dershowitz said.

All “the ‘evidence’ that Ms. Giuffre and her lawyers claim implicates me is equally applicable to dozens of other academics and public figures who were associated with Mr. Epstein,” Dershowitz said.

Dershowitz filed a defamation lawsuit against Giuffre’s lawyers, and she eventually withdrew her claim against him.

The newly released DOJ filings also show that Dershowitz wrote to someone in 2009 about Epstein’s jail sentence in Florida.

“I greatly appreciate your willingness to call the sheriff and advise him that your office would take no position on how he handled Epstein’s sentence as long as he didn’t get special treatment, but let’s put any call off for a while, Dershowitz wrote.

Tonya Alanez can be reached at tonya.alanez@globe.com. Follow her @talanez.