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Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates has addressed his latest connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Gates’ name appeared in the latest batch of Epstein docs that were released by Congress last week.
Like essentially everyone else that has been listed in the Epstein files, Bill Gates has long denied any wrongdoing and continued to tow that line in his latest interview.
Speaking to an Australian news outlet, Gates said that the viral email from the files — which alleged that Gates gave an STI that he contracted from “Russian girls” to his ex-wife Melinda, leading him to ask Epstein for medicine he could slip her to cure it — is “false.”
“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 [French Gates], and the description of your p—-,” Epstein’s July 2013 email reportedly read.
Bill Gates denies the validity of email mentioning his name in the latest batch of the Jeffrey Epstein files
Gates, however, has come out publicly to say that the email was “never sent” and is “false,” while hypothesizing that the disgraced sex criminal drafted the email to “attack him.”
“Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent. The email is false,” Gates told Australia’s 9 News. “I don’t know what his thinking was there. Was he trying to attack me in some way?… Every minute I spent with him, I regret, and I apologize that I did that.”
Bill Gates speaks out for the first time after latest Epstein files revelations
‘Jeffrey wrote an email to himself…
I never went to the island, I never met any women’
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Back in 2011, while Gates admitted to having “several” dinners with Epstein, he claimed to have never visited his infamous island nor took part in any crimes.
“I was foolish to spend time with him. I was one of many people who regret ever knowing him. The more that comes out, the more clear it will be that, although the time was a mistake, it has nothing to do with that kind of behavior,” Gates said at the time.
On Friday, January 30, the United States Justice Department published over 3 million additional pages — with more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images — in compliance (albeit delayed) with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. In addition to Gates, other powerful men named in the files include President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Bill Clinton, Sergey Brin, Steven Tisch, Woody Johnson, Ehud Barak, Steve Bannon, Brett Ratner, and many more.