Bill Gates’ name was mentioned multiple times in the newly released batch of Epstein files, and notes written by Jeffrey Epstein imply that the Microsoft cofounder contracted a sexually transmitted disease he wanted to hide from then-wife Melinda French Gates.
Among the files released January 30 are draft emails that the late sex offender wrote to himself, one of which seemed to be addressed to the 70-year-old billionaire and written on July 18, 2013.
In it, Epstein — who died by suicide in his prison cell in 2019 at age 66 — seemed to address a fallout between the two. “Dear Bill,” he began. “I cannot believe that you have chosen to both disregard and discard our friendship developed of over [sic] the last 6 years.”
Towards the end of the draft email (it is unclear if it was actually ever sent to Gates), the pedophile appeared to make claims about the businessman’s health.
“TO add insult to the injury you then subsequently with tears in your eyes, implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis,” it read.
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In a note to himself penned that same day with the subject “bill,” Epstein wrote, “I have decided to resign my position effective immediately with BG3 and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”
In the note, Epstein alleged that he helped “Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls” and facilitated “his illicit trysts, with married women,” among other claims.
A spokesperson for Gates called the claims from Epstein “absolutely absurd and completely false,” according to multiple reports, before Gates broke his silence in an interview with 9 News Australia that aired on Wednesday, February 4.
“Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent,” Gates said. “The email is false. I don’t know what his thinking was there. Was he trying to attack me in some way? But it just reminds me, every minute I spent with him, I regret, and I apologize that I did that.”
“It’s factually true that I was only at dinners. I never went to the island, I never met any women, so the more that comes out, the more clear it will be that, although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior,” he continued.
Gates insisted his relationship with Epstein was strictly about charity work. “The focus was always, he knew a lot of very rich people, and he was saying he could get them to give money to global health. In retrospect, that was a dead end,” Gates said. “I was foolish to spend time with him. I was one of many people who regret ever knowing him.”
Melinda, who filed for divorce in 2021 after 27 years of marriage, addressed the mentions of her ex-husband in the Epstein files during the Tuesday, February 3, episode of Wild Card with Rachel Martin and NPR.
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“I think we’re having a reckoning as a society, right?” Melinda, 61, began. “No girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with all of the various people around him.”
The mother of three said it’s “personally hard” when details regarding Epstein come up because she has “moved on” from the “painful” times in her marriage, adding: “I purposely pushed it away.”
She then said that the people mentioned, including her ex-husband, in the Epstein files “need to answer to those” questions about the scandal that “remain” unanswered.