Long-time Brookline Child Health Director Had Multi-year Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein

BROOKLINE, MA — A former prominent figure in the Brookline public schools district had long-term communication with convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to documents recently released by the Department of Justice.

Dr. Gloria Rudisch worked in the town for 49 years, beginning in 1972. She graduated from New York University's School of Medicine in 1949. She then trained in both the New York and Boston areas to become a pediatrician. Rudisch held the position of Director of School Health for 33 of those years before becoming the Child Health and Medical Director in 2006. Her position was eliminated after her retirement in 2021.

According to the documents, Rudisch exchanged emails, had phone calls, and met in-person with Epstein throughout multiple years. The files involving her featured an itinerary for Rudisch and her husband, former MIT Professor Marvin Minsky, to visit Epstein’s private island as well as an agreement for Rudisch to be paid $50,000 to work as a consultant for the J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation (also known as Enhanced Education) that had not been finalized.

Minsky was a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was involved in the school until his death in 2016. Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre said in a 2019 deposition that she was once forced to have sexual relations with Minsky. Rudisch denied those claims against her late husband at the time. Giuffre died last April in what was ruled a suicide.

The communication between Epstein and Rudisch in the documents begins in early 2010, not long after Epstein served more than a year in prison on the charge of soliciting prostitution from a child. The early exchanges involve Rudisch expressing sympathy toward Epstein and her desire to meet with him in the future.

“Thanks for your legup on Jeffrey (Epstein’s) visit. We will be returning from overseas (Marvin's award in Madrid) on Saturday the 21st, so we would like to schedule a visit with Jeffrey on Sunday the 22nd. Would early or midafternoon work?” Rudisch wrote in an email to Epstein assistant Lesley Groff in the summer of 2014. We look forward to seeing Jeffrey --- probably at Harvard as usual.. Just let us know time and place…… I guess brunch would be another possibility in case Jeffrey is leaving relatively early in the day on Sunday.”

Rudisch also goes by the name Gloria Minsky, which appears dozens of times in the documents.
Consistent communication continued until Epstein’s high-profile arrest in 2019, according to statements made by Epstein's assistants to him.

“Gloria Rudish called to say she is thinking about you...she hates (what) is going on...and if you come up to Martin's office (to) please let her know. She would love to see you,” Groff wrote to Epstein on Feb. 27, 2019.

Brookline Communications Officer Christina Metcalf said that a town review of the situation found no illegal activity or wrongdoing by Rudisch during her tenure aside from using her town email for communication, according to a report from Brookline News.

Rudisch could not be reached by Patch for comment.

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