Professor defends recommending 'small good looking blonde' to satisfy Epstein's 'habits'

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Professor defends recommending 'small good looking blonde' to satisfy Epstein's 'habits'

David Edwards
February 5, 2026 11:14AM ET

Yale computer science professor David Gelernter defended recommending a young woman to Jeffrey Epstein because he was trying to satisfy the sex offender's "habits."

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On Wednesday, the professor attempted to explain the email to the Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, Jeffrey Brock

I was recommending her for a job I thought she'd like," Gelernter said in the email obtained by the Yale News. "When you do that--when you actually care about a rec letter--you keep the potential boss's habits in mind."

"This one was obsessed with girls (like every other unmarried billionaire in Manhattan; in fact, like every other heterosex male), and if I hadn't said what I did in that letter ten-odd years ago, he would certainly have called me & asked for a lot more aesthetic detail. (This is how men behave)," he added. "So 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!"

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