Yale University has removed longtime computer science professor David Gelernter from teaching duties after newly released Department of Justice documents tied him to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, years after Epstein had already pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
The bombshell revelations emerged from the massive January 2026 DOJ document dump made possible under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in November 2025, which forced the federal government to release millions of pages of Epstein-related communications.
Among the millions of pages published were years of email correspondence between Gelernter and Jeffrey Epstein, spanning 2009 to 2015.
In one message from October 2011, years after Epstein’s conviction in Florida for soliciting a minor, the professor recommended a Yale undergraduate for a position to Epstein, describing her unambiguously in terms of looks as “a v small good-looking blonde.”
Gelernter defended the note to Yale administration as keeping “the potential boss’s habits in mind,” but university officials found the explanation unacceptable and removed him from teaching duties pending review.
In a defiantly unapologetic email to Yale Dean Jeffrey Brock, which Gelernter subsequently leaked to the Yale Daily News, he defended the description.
WRAL reported:
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.”
CT Insider reported that Gelernter stated that he was unaware Jeffrey Epstein had been convicted of a sex offense.
The emails between the men released by the Justice Department allegedly did not contain any indication that Gelernter was aware of Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme.
“Fondness for little girls is a perversion that runs way outside ordinary locker-room talk,” Gelernter wrote in the statement to CT Insider. “No one would ever introduce it into normal conversation.”
He also described Epstein as “one of the two (maybe three) smartest men I’d ever met” and a “brilliant and funny conversationalist.”
Gelernter himself noted the irony in a message to his students, calling the email a “personal, private email, dug out of the dump of Epstein files,” and asking, “If someone handed you a stack of other people’s private correspondence, would you dive in and read them?”
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