Bill Gates Affair highlights:
- A Wall Street Journal investigation reveals that Jeffrey Epstein attempted to blackmail Bill Gates after learning about Gates’ affair with a Russian bridge player.
- Epstein met the woman in 2013 and paid for her software development classes, while Gates supposedly met her in 2010.
- In 2017, Epstein emailed Bill Gates requesting payment for the classes and hinted at exposing Gates’ affair if he didn’t stay in touch.
- Bill Gates’ representative stated that Epstein failed in using their friendship as leverage against Gates.
- Bill Gates started meeting with Epstein in 2011 to collect money for global health programs but later expressed regret for continuing their friendship.
- Mila Antonova, introduced to Epstein by Gates’ confidant Boris Nikolic, sought funding for her online bridge teaching idea but ended up attending a programming bootcamp sponsored by Epstein.
- Epstein had a prior conviction as a sex offender and was imprisoned in Florida in 2008. He was arrested again in 2019 for sex trafficking and died by suicide while awaiting trial in his New York prison cell.
A Wall Street Journal investigation claims that after learning that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player years earlier, renowned sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein tried to blackmail the co-founder of Microsoft. While Epstein met the lady in 2013 and paid for her to take software development classes, Gates supposedly first met the woman in 2010 when she was in her 20s. In an email to Gates in 2017, Epstein requested payment for the course and hinted that if he didn’t keep in touch with the convicted sex offender, he may reveal Gates’ affair. A representative for Gates said that Epstein had attempted, but failed, to use their prior friendship as leverage against Gates.
Despite Epstein’s prior sex crime conviction and status as a registered sex offender, Gates started meeting with him in 2011. According to Gates, the goal of these gatherings was to collect money for global health programs that complemented the aims of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But in January, Gates admitted that he had made a mistake by going out to dinner with Epstein and expressed sorrow for continuing their friendship.
Bridge player Mila Antonova claimed that when Gates’ confidant Boris Nikolic introduced her to Epstein, she was not aware of his tarnished reputation. Epstein provided funds for Antonova’s attendance at a coding boot camp, but she was unable to convince him to support her online bridge teaching venture. Epstein agreed to make a direct payment to the school, stating that he intended to use his money to assist others when he could.
Jeffrey Epstein was charged in 2008 with soliciting and obtaining a juvenile for prostitution after being accused of sexually assaulting underage females in 2006. He was jailed in Florida after registering as a sex offender. Epstein was detained once more on sex trafficking charges in 2019 as a result of a thorough investigation by the Miami Herald that identified a large number of additional victims. He was found dead in his New York jail cell while awaiting trial, and the medical examiner’s office determined that he committed suicide.
