Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is among the many powerful people who appear in the Epstein Files, which detail (among other things) their meetings and communications with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. For Bill, they also describe unpleasant outcomes, including a sexually transmitted infection, a putatively diseased penis, and a suggestion (from Epstein) that Bill considered feeding his then-wife, Melinda Gates, medication without her knowledge.
Gates denies it all through a spokesperson ("these claims are absolutely absurd and completely false") but the renewed attention to his association with Epstein remined me of this 2021 interview with PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff. Asked by Woodruff if there was a lesson for him or anyone else in looking back on his "mistake" to associatie with Epstein, he was then more talkative.
philanthropist Bill Gates addressed his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein a decade ago, after Epstein had already been convicted of sex crimes. Gates said Epstein had promoted himself as having relationships with people who would contribute money toward global health initiatives — a focus of Gates' foundation. "Those meetings were a mistake," Gates said. "They didn't result in what he purported and I cut them off."
Melinda French Gates has confirmed that the allegations found in the Epstein Files led to their divorce: "I am so happy to be away from all the muck that was there," she told Rachel Martin in an interview for NPR's Wild Card earlier this week, later adding: "I had to leave my marriage, I wanted to leave my marriage … I've been able to move on in my life, and I hope there's some justice for those women."
Previously:
• NYT finds 38,000+ Trump references in released Epstein documents
• Director of 'Melania' in the latest Epstein Files drop
