A MIT biology professor once tipped for a Nobel Prize is instead collecting unemployment after being fired when a younger colleague he had a consensual relationship with cried abuse.
Dr. David Sabatini, 54, stepped down in April after an MIT investigation concluded that his resignation would be the best course of action.
He had already been fired from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and forced to resign from the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research after a cancer researcher at the Whitehead raised sexual harassment claims against him.
The woman, identified in a Bari Weiss Common Sense substack as Kristin Knouse, was 29 years old when the two reportedly engaged in consensual sex in April 2018. He was 50 at the time, had split from his wife and was in the process of getting a divorce.
After Sabatini pulled the plug on the relationship in July 2019, his lover ‘continued to attempt to engage with him sexually and emotionally despite his repeated requests that she stop,’ according to the documents.
When Sabatini made it clear that he was pursuing a romantic relationship with another woman in Europe, his now-former girlfriend ‘became determined to destroy Dr. Sabatini’ and get him fired by falsely claiming that he had sexually harassed her, according to the complaint.
Dr. David Sabatini, 54, is collecting unemployment after he was forced to resign following allegations that he sexually harassed a younger colleague
