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Selected excerpts from article published by UKThe Week,May 3, 2022.
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Bill Gateshas admitted that fundraising meetings held with the late-billionaire paedophileJeffrey Epsteinwere a “huge mistake”.
Discussing the role that his relationship with Epstein played in his divorce from Melinda Gates, the Microsoft billionaire toldThe Sunday Timesthat “at the time” he “didn’t realise that by having those meetings it would be seen as giving [Epstein] credibility”.
“You’re almost saying, ‘I forgive that type of behaviour’, or something,” he added. “So clearly the way it’s seen, I made a huge mistake not understanding that.”
Speaking publicly about her separation from Gates for the first time in March, Melinda toldCBS Newsthat although “many things” contributed to her decision to end the pair’s marriage,she “did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no”.
She also told the broadcaster that journalists should ask Bill whether he had cheated on her during the course of their marriage. Asked by The Sunday Times’ associate editor Alice Thomson whether he would answer that question, he refused, saying: “No.”
According toThe Daily Beast, Melinda was present for a meeting between her husband and Epstein at the latter’s Upper East Side mansion in September of that year, and afterwards told friends that “she was furious at the relationship between the two men”.
Melinda described “how uncomfortable she was in the company of the wealthy sex offender”, the site said, and “told friends she wanted nothing to do with him”.
Source: Global Research
