Epstein Hired as Teacher at Dalton School
Jeffrey Epstein, without a college degree, was hired as a mathematics and physics teacher at the Dalton School, an elite Manhattan private school, at approximately age 20. The position gave him crucial access to the families of New York's wealthy elite.
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Jeffrey Epstein was hired to teach mathematics and physics at the Dalton School in Manhattan in the fall of 1973, at approximately 20 years of age, despite having never completed a university degree.
The Dalton School, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, was among New York City’s most prestigious private schools. Its parent body included financiers, lawyers, business executives, and prominent cultural figures. For Epstein, teaching there provided not just a paycheck but a structural access point to elite New York society that his working-class Brooklyn origins would otherwise not have afforded.
His mathematical ability was described as genuine and impressive by colleagues. He taught there for approximately two to three years before his connections at the school directly led to his hiring at Bear Stearns.