Bill Gates has voiced regret over \u201cevery minute\u201d he spent with Jeffrey Epstein, even as the Microsoft co-founder\u2019s former wife Melinda said he still had questions to answer over his relationship with the convicted sexual offender.<\/p>\n
The latest tranche of documents released by the US Justice Department last week contained emails between many prominent figures and Epstein, often revealing warm friendships, illicit financial dealings and private photos.<\/p>\n
In a draft email among the documents, Epstein alleged Gates engaged in extramarital affairs, writing that his relationship with Gates ranged from \u201chelping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery minute I spent with him, I regret, and I apologize,\u201d Gates, a billionaire philanthropist, told 9News Australia in an interview broadcast Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat email was never sent. The email is false,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what his thinking was there. Was he trying to attack me in some way?\u201d<\/p>\n
A Gates spokesperson issued a similar denial after the fresh cache of millions of files related to the investigation into Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019, were released.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein\u2019s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Melinda French Gates told US National Public Radio in an interview that the document dump brought back \u201cmemories of some very, very painful times in my marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it\u2019s personally hard whenever those details come up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever questions remain there of what \u2014 I can\u2019t even begin to know all of it \u2014 those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband. They need to answer to those things, not me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple divorced in 2021.<\/p>\n
Bill Gates told 9News that he met Epstein in 2011 and had several dinners with him over three years, but never visited his Caribbean island and didn\u2019t have relations with women.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe focus was always, he knew a lot of very rich people, and he was saying he could get them to give money to global health. In retrospect, that was a dead end,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Someone\u2019s name in the Epstein files does not imply any wrongdoing but the documents revealed connections between Epstein and public figures who have often downplayed \u2014 or even denied \u2014 such ties.<\/p>\n
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