Epstein files: Yale bars David Gelernter from teaching classes amid review of emails

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Epstein files: Yale bars David Gelernter from teaching classes amid review of emails

Published Wed, Feb 11 2026 3:31 PM EST
Updated Wed, Feb 11 2026 4:02 PM EST
Dan Mangan
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KEY POINTS

• Yale University said it has barred professor David Gelernter from teaching computer science classes, for now, as the university conducts a review of his contact with Jeffrey Epstein, which included mentioning a Yale student for a potential project.
• Gelernter's extensive email correspondence with Epstein came to light after the release of files related to Epstein by the Department of Justice in late January.
• "I have a perfect editoress in mind: Yale sr, worked at Vogue last summer, runs her own campus mag, art major, completely connected, v small goodlooking blonde," Gelernter wrote to Epstein.


Professor David Gelernter sits in his office at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on Aug. 28, 1997.
Brad Clift | Hartford Courant | AP

Yale University said Wednesday that it has barred professor David Gelernter from teaching computer science classes, for now, as the university conducts a review of his contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, which included mentioning a Yale student for a potential project.

Gelernter's extensive email correspondence with Epstein came to light after the release of files related to Epstein by the Department of Justice in late January.

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Among those files is an October 2011 email to Epstein, in which Gelernter mentions a software project to be built. ... "I have a perfect editoress in mind: Yale sr, worked at Vogue last summer, runs her own campus mag, art major, completely connected, v small goodlooking blonde," Gelernter wrote.

The email was sent three years after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. Epstein served 13 months in jail in that case. ... The Yale Daily News reported Tuesday that Gelernter had been barred from teaching classes pending a review.

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1. creep

I was a college Instructor ( never got the PhD so not a professor ). If I had ever written an email like that, I would have been fired on the spot and kicked out of the university.

I HAD young ladies ( I was all of 22 years old at the time ) who were 19 and 20 throwing themselves at me with suggestive moves. But they were in my class... I didn't date them, didn't have coffee with them, never went to a party they invited me to. I had already heard of "A for a lay"... and what might happen to the college instructor or professor or even TA or lab asst. if they entertain such activities. So it was strictly hands off. No contact. If I wrote a letter of recommendation for a student ( and I did a few of those ) it was strictly professional.

the "v small" either implies small breasts ( as in no cleavage - which was probably one of Epstein's many kinks ) OR it is a reference to her vagina ( indicating that he had some knowledge of that ). Either way - ewwwww - creep.

goodlooking blond... right. Pig!

Not a word about how talented she might be at being a publication editor. Just that she was an art major and worked at Vogue and ran her own student magazine.

Yale needs to fire his ass right on the spot.

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2. "Editoress"?

He sure wants to emphasize he's sending Epstein a "female".

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3. He is infamous for his views on women working outside the home

He doesn't like it. "Editoress" is probably meant to diminish the woman who holds that job