According to US media, Bill Gates - co-founder of Microsoft - has admitted to having two extramarital affairs but affirmed that he was not involved in the crimes of a sex offender (Jeffrey Epstein).
Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier, child sex offender, serial rapist and human trafficker.
Epstein began his financial career at an investment bank, before establishing his own company. He was convicted of sexual offenses in 2008.
The relationship between Gates and Epstein has recently been scrutinized more closely by the Department of Justice's release of documents including emails that Mr. Epstein wrote for himself, in which he claimed that Bill Gates had sexually transmitted diseases and requested antibiotics to secretly give to his ex-wife - Mrs. Melinda. However, Mr. Gates denied this accusation.
Evidence files also contain images of Mr. Gates with women whose faces have been blurred.
However, Gates affirmed that he was not involved in any illegal acts by Epstein. "I did not do anything illegal and did not see any illegal acts," he said, according to a recording collected by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Mr. Bill Gates shared that Epstein asked him to take these photos with his assistants. "I would like to affirm clearly, I have never spent time with the victims - the women around him," Bill Gates said.
Although Gates affirmed that he had never spent time with Epstein's victims, he said that he had a romantic relationship with two Russian women - a bridge player at card games events and a Russian nuclear physicist at a business event.
The Wall Street Journal reported in 2023 that Epstein tried to blackmail Gates about his alleged affair with bridge player - Mila Antonova.
Besides the controversies related to Jeffrey Epstein, Melinda French Gates (Bill Gates' ex-wife) once admitted that Bill Gates' extramarital affair gradually cracked the trust between them; Mr. Gates himself also publicly admitted his mistake and took responsibility.
