Yale University SUSPENDS Professor Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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Yale University has suspended a prominent computer science professor, David Gelernter, from his teaching position.

This comes after Gelernter’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein came to light in the Trump DOJ’s latest Epstein files release.

Here are the details:

This professor didn’t just message Epstein once or twice.

No, the pair had six years worth of regular correspondence through email — all of which occurred after Epstein was convicted for underage sex crimes in 2008.

In one email, Gelernter recommended a “goodlooking blonde” to Epstein.

Forbes explained:

Yale computer science professor David Gelernter is defending almost six years of email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, including a recommendation for a student he described as a “completely connected, v small goodlooking blonde,” reportedly saying that he was only trying to “keep the potential boss’s habits in mind.”

Epstein, Gelernter reportedly wrote in an email sent Wednesday to the dean of Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science, would have asked for “a lot more aesthetic detail” if he had not already included information about the student’s appearance.

He added, “As long as I said nothing that dishonored her in any conceivable way, I’d have told him more or less what he wanted. She was smart, charming & gorgeous. Ought I to have suppressed that info? Never!”

The story gets even weirder, though.

In the 90s, David Gelernter was infamously injured by an explosive in the mail sent by the “Unabomber.”

AP News has more:

Messages between David Gelernter — who made headlines in 1993 when he was wounded by a mail explosive sent by “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski — and the late, disgraced financier were among the trove of Epstein-related documents released by the U.S. Justice Department in late January. The documents show Gelernter and Epstein corresponding on a variety of topics including business and art.

In an email to Epstein in October 2011 — several years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl — Gelernter wrote that he had an “editoress” in mind for a job — a Yale senior whom he described as a “v small good-looking blonde.”

Gelernter defended that message in an email last week to Jeffrey Brock, dean of Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science, according to the Yale Daily News, which reported that Gelernter also forwarded the email to the student newspaper.

He noted that Epstein was “obsessed with girls” — “like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male” — and he was keeping “the potential boss’s habits in mind.”

“So long as I said nothing that dishonored her in any conceivable way, I’d have told him more or less what he wanted,” Gelernter wrote to Brock, the paper reported. “She was smart, charming & gorgeous. Ought I to have suppressed that info? Never!”

He added: “I’m very glad I wrote the note.”

Students in Gelernter’s computer science class were notified that he would not be teaching on Tuesday.

“The university does not condone the action taken by the professor or his described manner of providing recommendations for his students,” Yale said in a statement. “The professor’s conduct is under review. Until the review is completed, the professor will not teach his class.”



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