Julian Assange has his own embarrassing e-mails.
The lovesick WikiLeaks founder sent a 19-year-old girl a series of gross-out messages for 10 days until he finally heeded her pleas to go away.
Assange also tracked down the girl’s phone number and license plate in a futile attempt to date her in 2004, long before he became famous.
Assange, then 33, met her at a bar near Melbourne, Australia, and tried to flirt by explaining complex math equations.
“I didn’t think he was sexy or anything” — but rather “quiet and nerdy,” the woman, identified only as Elizabeth, told Gawker.com.
She said he walked her home after the bar closed, kissed her and exchanged e-mail addresses with her. But Elizabeth said she didn’t encourage Assange when he asked if she was busy the next Monday.
She said “it scared me” when Assange called the next day and refused to say how he got her phone number.
He responded to her brush-off by writing her like a smitten schoolboy: “Your reaction to my phone call lacked dignity and has stung me.”
Again, she replied coolly, so Assange took a new tone, saying, “When I first wrote the heat of your breast pressed against me was still vivid in my mind.”
Assange tried calling her a few days later, but Elizabeth pretended she was someone else.
After she rebuffed further attempts — and sent an e-mail with the subject line “don’t call me” — he sent one last wounded message.
It ended with: “You pulled a tiny petal off my world just when I thought you were to add one but all around is the meadow, where I shall again dance and skip and sing till some fool girl should brush my wing. Julian.” Andy Soltis, Wires