In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates admitted that his association with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a “huge mistake.”
Epstein, who allegedly died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal conspiracy and sex trafficking charges, had multiple meetings with Gates to discuss philanthropic collaborations.
During the interview, Gates said he was foolish to spend time with the late financier.
“In retrospect, I was foolish to spend any time with him,” the 69-year-old billionaire told the Wall Street Journal Friday.
“I think I was quite stupid. I thought it would help me with global health philanthropy. In fact, it failed to do that. It was just a huge mistake.”
Gates admitted that he is now more cautious about forming connections with people, “Definitely. I mean, are you kidding?”
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Bill Gates now alleges that Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed and threatened him over an alleged “affair.”
Gates claims their meetings were solely to discuss global health philanthropy and admits it was “foolish and stupid” to spend any time with Epstein.
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The Wall Street Journal also reported in 2023 that Epstein attempted to leverage his connection with Gates by threatening to expose an alleged affair between Gates and Russian bridge player Mila Antonova.
According to sources familiar with the matter, convicted pedophile Epstein, approached Gates with the proposal to contribute to a multibillion-dollar charitable fund in 2017.
Epstein allegedly threatened to reveal Gates’ extramarital affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova unless Gates agreed to the proposal.
“Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates,” said a spokeswoman for Gates.
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The affair and Gates’ association with Epstein were significant factors in his divorce from Melinda Gates, according to reports.
Melinda Gates slammed her ex-husband Bill Gates for continuing his longtime friendship with deceased pedophile Jeffery Epstein despite her warnings to him about having “nightmares” about him.
After Bill repeatedly met with Epstein, Melinda demanded her husband introduce her to the billionaire hedge fund manager in 2011.
“I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffery Epstein. I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffery Epstein exactly one time. I wanted to see who this man was and I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door,” Gates told CBS mornings host Gayle King, in her first interview since divorcing the vaccine touting billionaire philanthropist.
“He was abhorrent, evil personified,” Melinda said. “I had nightmares about it afterward. That’s why my heart breaks for these young women. That’s how I felt, and I am an older woman. He was awful.”
Sarah Ferguson from ABC Australia confronted Bill Gates about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein during a live television interview.
Ferguson asked the billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft if he regretted the relationship that he “maintained” with Epstein “against Melinda’s advice and wishes.”
“You’re going way back in time, but yeah, I will say it for the over 100th time, yeah, I shouldn’t have had dinners with him,” Gates said.
“Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people. Is that what Melinda was warning you about?” asked Ferguson.
“No, I mean its…(pause) No, I had dinner with him, and that’s all,” Gates responded.
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