The latest release of the Epstein files give new insights about Epstein’s relationship with Bill Gates—which has dogged the billionaire for years, and we know now wreaked havoc on his marriage—including scandalous but unverified claims Gates denied Wednesday, while expressing regret for knowing the financier.
The Justice Department released three million documents on Epstein on Friday to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which include hundreds of emails, text messages and other documents that reference Gates.
But it was known Gates had a relationship with Epstein beginning in 2011—nearly three years after he was convicted for procuring a child for prosecution in Florida—meeting with the financier on multiple occasions to, at least at the beginning, try to start a donor-advised fund before Gates apparently cut ties with Epstein in late 2014.
The latest batch of Epstein files include communications about his professional relationship with Gates, but Epstein also made a number of allegations that have caused a firestorm, including allegations of Gates’ drug use and participation in “illicit trysts,” that Gates contracted a sexually transmitted disease and then "surreptitiously" gave antibiotics for the disease to then-wife Melinda French Gates. (On behalf of Gates, his charity Gates Foundation decried these allegations as “absolutely absurd and completely false.”)
In a rare public comment on the matter Wednesday, Gates told Australia’s 9 News,...
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