Overview
- Newly released Department of Justice records show David Gelernter corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein from 2009 to 2015, including planned visits and dinners.
- A 2011 email shows Gelernter recommending an alumna to Epstein and describing her as a "v small goodlooking blonde."
- In a Wednesday message to Dean Jeffrey Brock, Gelernter said he tailored the note to the "potential boss's habits" and asserted he did not know Epstein was a sex offender at the time.
- Yale Vice President of Communications Karen Peart said the university does not condone the language used by the professor.
- Students reacted during Gelernter’s class after the disclosures, and no formal disciplinary action has been reported.