Bill Gates has opened up about his past affairs and association with Jeffrey Epstein during a recent town hall. He confessed to cheating on ex-wife Melinda with two Russian women, while denying any illicit involvement with Epstein. The revelations come amid resurfaced 2013 emails from Epstein.
Oh honey, Bill Gates is serving up some serious tea at his Gates Foundation town hall in Seattle—straight from the Wall Street Journal and The Shade Room reports. The Microsoft co-founder didn't hold back, admitting he cheated on Melinda Gates with a Russian bridge player he met at events and a Russian nuclear physicist from business circles. "To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him," Gates insisted, per WSJ. And those women? Not Epstein victims, he stressed.
But let's talk that Epstein mess—Gates called his time with the convicted sex offender a "huge mistake." They linked up in 2011, three years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea for soliciting a minor. Gates flew on Epstein's jet and met in spots like Washington, New York, Germany, and France, with other big names tagging along, making it feel "normal," he said. Still, "I did nothing illicit and saw nothing illicit," Gates maintained. His reps slammed Epstein's 2013 emails bragging about Bill as his "right hand" and ethically shady stuff as "absurd" and "completely false."
Those emails? Messy AF. Epstein allegedly emailed himself about meddling in Bill and Melinda's marriage, demanding two years' severance for covering up alleged STDs and slipping antibiotics to Melinda. Gates shut that down: "The email is false. I don't know what his thinking was there," he told 9 News Australia. Melinda? Reading the docs hit her with "unbelievable sadness," bringing back "very, very painful times," she shared. Her heart goes out to Epstein's young victims—"my God, how did that happen to those girls?"
Bill and Melinda's 27-year marriage ended in divorce in 2021, with her reportedly disgusted by his Epstein ties. Gates apologized: "I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake that I made."
So, is Bill's full confession closing the book, or just fanning more flames? 🔥
