Bill Gates Alleges Jeffrey Epstein Tried to Blackmail Him Over Infidelity

Gates—who categorically denied engaging in or witnessing any criminal contact Epstein had engaged in—previously shared insight into his infidelity during his 27-year marriage.

“I did have affairs,” he said in a town hall conversation with Bill Gates Foundation employees during a February town hall. “One with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist whom I met through business activities.”

For French Gates’ part, she had reacted to her ex-husband’s connection to Epstein in the docs.

“For me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage,” she said on NPR’s Wild Card podcast in February. “Whatever questions remain, those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband.”

The 61-year-old isn’t interested in speaking for anyone else, adding, “They need to answer to those things, not me.”