Wendi Adelson On Her 'Ill-Fated Romance' With Dan Markel

A fellow law professor calls her comments "chilling."

Wendi Adelson

Wendi Adelson

I screwed up fantastically and ended up with a dream job as a clinical law professor. I fell in love with the wrong man, and he got a job in Tallahassee. I had wanted to be in DC or become a foreign service officer, or in the previous few years, live closely to my family in South Florida. So, ill-fated romance took me to Tallahassee, and love for my children keeps me here.

Wendi Adelson, discussing her relationship with ex-husband Dan Markel in a Truman Scholar profile published a few months before his July 2014 murder.

(This comment was just highlighted on TaxProf Blog by Professor Paul Caron, who called it ‘chilling,’ although those obsessed with the case may have seen it before in message-board threads. It’s consistent with Adelson’s podcast musings about her marriage: ‘I thought I could cheat the system by marrying a man I lacked passionate love for.’)


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