Bill Gates has admitted to having affairs with Russian women as he apologised for his previous association withJeffrey Epstein.The microsoft co-founder spoke at length about his connection to Epstein at a town hall for Gates Foundation employees on Tuesday February 24.
The billionaire,70, said that hemet with Epstein multiple times, but told his staff that he never stayed overnight, never went toEpstein’s notorious island, and neither engaged in nor witnessed any “illicit” activity. “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates said in the town hall meeting. “To be clear, I never spent any time with the victims, the women around him.”
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Gates then went on to discuss the two women he had affairs with while he was married to Melinda, his wife of 27 years.
“I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” he had told staff, according toThe Wall Street Journal.
The US newspaper reported that the billionaire said images of him with women, whose faces are redacted, included in the so-called Epstein files were pictures that the late financier asked him to take with his assistants after their meetings.
In a message to his staff, he said: “I apologise to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake that I made.”
A spokesperson for the Gates Foundation said in a statement: "This was a scheduled town hall with employees, which Bill does twice a year.
"In the conversation, Bill answered questions submitted by foundation staff on a range of issues, including the release of the Epstein files, the foundation's work in AI, and the future of global health.
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
