Bill Gates Jeffrey Epstein Melinda Gates The relationship between billionaires Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein remains the subject of much speculation, as information continues to emerge tying the two together.
From reports of secretive meetings and dinner with a group that included a teen girl, here’s a look at the relationship between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein.
Bill Gates Jeffrey Epstein Melinda Gates
Because as much as the Microsoft founder tried to downplay it this week on Australian television (see below), the two Billionaires had a relationship that potentially went beyond dinner.
ABC 7.30 presenter Sarah Ferguson asked Gates if he “regrets the relationship he maintained” with Epstein, going against his ex-wife Melinda Gates’ advice.
“You’re going way back in time,” Gates said, adding he’s said this “over the hundredth time.”
“I shouldn’t have had dinners with him.”
Bill Gates Jeffrey Epstein Melinda Gates
In fact, it is speculated Epstein was one of the reasons behind the Gates divorce.
“Friends of the couple told the Daily Beast that Melinda (Gates) is still haunted by the encounter with Epstein,” according to Page Six.
Gates maintains the contact was purely business.
“I had several dinners with him, you know, hoping that what he said about getting billions of philanthropy for global health through contacts that he had might emerge,” Gates told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“When it looked like that wasn’t a real thing, that relationship ended.”
In addition, there are also admiring references to Epstein in some of Gates’ emails to third parties.
The Microsoft founder emailed associates about the contact, commenting on Epstein’s “charm and intelligence.”
“His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me,” Mr. Gates emailed colleagues in 2011, after his first get-together with Mr. Epstein.
The New York Times, 2019
The two men also met several times beginning in 2011, just three years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl in Florida.
Bill Gates Jeffrey Epstein Melinda Gates
Sources close to one meeting reportedly heard discussions surrounding projects close to Gates’ heart such as philanthropy.
While Gates said it was just a business dinner, reports indicated there were many more such events..
Mr. Gates met with Mr. Epstein on numerous occasions — including at least three times at Mr. Epstein’s palatial Manhattan townhouse, and at least once staying late into the night, according to interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the relationship, as well as documents reviewed by The New York Times.Bill Gates Jeffrey Epstein Melinda Gates
The New York Times, 2019
Read more about the two billionaires, their dynamic, and how it ended in controversy, here.
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