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I was foolish': Bill Gates says he deeply regrets spending any time with disgraced Epstein
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 04 Feb 2026 By | ASHLEY NICKEL and EMMA RICHTER

Posted on 02/04/2026 5:56:40 AM PST by V_TWIN

One of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, has broken his silence following allegations surfacing in the latest round of documents released regarding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

'The 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,' Gates said in an interview with Nine News on Wednesday.

Gates gave his 'only Australian TV interview' with the network during a trip to the country for the Australian Open, which ran from January 12 to February 1 at Melbourne Park.

The billionaire continued: 'You know, in retrospect that was a dead end and I was foolish to spend time with him. I am one of many people who regret ever knowing him.

'Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent. The email is, you know, false.

'I don't know what his thinking was there. Every minute that I spent with him, I regret and I apologise that I did that.

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To: V_TWIN
I was foolish

And horny. And lecherous. And creepy. And reckless. And lewd.

61 posted on 02/04/2026 7:49:21 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Owen
Does anyone rational believe Gates would need Epstein to get him antibiotics?

Doctors are required to report certain STDs. If trying to avoid mandatory reporting, such a perpetrator would likely reach out to the person he knew in the sex business.

62 posted on 02/04/2026 7:52:52 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Owen
Melinda likely has 6 month doc visits/checkups, because the rich do not want their life expectancy spending their money to be shortened. This would include bloodwork. One would think she could get that data from the relevant years to determine if she was getting antibiotics not prescribed.

Bill could have been trying to dose her before she showed symptoms and before her next physical. Depending on the infection, it could have been completely cured and undetected without her knowing.

63 posted on 02/04/2026 7:55:36 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Jonty30
One thing I’ve noticed about these guys is that almost all of them were the type of guys that didn’t have a chance for relationships in high school. It’s like they are trying to relive their school years when they do these things.

You're not the only one who noticed it. They were targeted by such blackmailers because they have it written all over them.

These predators are professional con men. They got to where they are because they can read a mark very well and know what to rope them in with.

64 posted on 02/04/2026 7:59:56 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
Bill’s apology should end with him turning state’s evidence, though.

He likely has little evidence to turn over other than his own actions. These perpetrators are professionals.

65 posted on 02/04/2026 8:02:39 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Does anyone rational believe Gates would need Epstein to get him antibiotics?

Doctors are required to report certain STDs. If trying to avoid mandatory reporting, such a perpetrator would likely reach out to the person he knew in the sex business.

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You do realize there is no requirement that antibiotics only be available in the US? His staff could pick some up literally anywhere in the world and have them to him on a Gulfstream V in a few hours.


66 posted on 02/04/2026 8:02:44 AM PST by Owen
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To: T.B. Yoits

He was powerdrunk. He forgot that the mighty usually end up falling harder than the ones they try to suppress.


67 posted on 02/04/2026 8:11:38 AM PST by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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To: Owen
You do realize there is no requirement that antibiotics sex victims only be available in the US on Epstein Island and through Jeffrey Epstein? His staff could pick some up literally anywhere in the world and have them to him on a Gulfstream V in a few hours.

If he was effective at carrying out his intentions, he wouldn't be in this situation to start with.

68 posted on 02/04/2026 8:11:40 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Bon of Babble

‘Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent...’

[The draft emails Epstein wrote to himself in July 2013, which allegedly describe Gates seeking antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife, Melinda, after an STI.”]

Wasn’t there an espionage case where someone would write email drafts and someone else had the password to log on and read them?


69 posted on 02/04/2026 8:22:20 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: Farmerbob

Found it.

Instead of actually sending email to each other, both Petraeus and Broadwell left unsent messages in a draft folder or in an electronic dropbox. The other person could then log into the same account and read the emails there, without creating an actual email trail.


70 posted on 02/04/2026 8:32:48 AM PST by Farmerbob
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To: V_TWIN

“How sorry is he for being friends with Al Gore and pushing Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Disruption and depopulation-ism? He could at least give us a chance against AI and bring back DOS...”

He can not, and will not do that. But I will

https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html


71 posted on 02/04/2026 8:41:49 AM PST by algore
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To: V_TWIN

So does your ex wife you reprobate.


72 posted on 02/04/2026 8:52:21 AM PST by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: Leaning Right
After what happened to Prince Andrew, Bill Gates must realize that he has further to fall. He seems to hope to avoid Fate if he apologizes for his Epstein ties. Yet it is hard to see how that can be enough.

Gates no doubt sees what threatens or is already happening. No more honorary degrees and public awards, with revocations perhaps of those that he has received. No university buildings named for him in return for big contributions. His foundation falling into question. His kids taking up their mother's maiden last name. Only a limited role in family gatherings and diminished contact with the grandchildren. A risk of getting heckled whenever he appears in public.

Gates must at times wonder how he could suffer such a turn. His immense wealth and success was supposed to make people always at least pretend to like him and to ignore or forgive his derelictions. Now Gates finds that his money and fame no longer give him immunity but make him a target. It is all so unfair that the rules seem to have changed -- but so fully deserved because the rules have not changed.

Gates should have paid more attention in that freshman Introduction to Western Civ course at Harvard. Not only is the God of the Jews and Christians not to be mocked, but as the Greeks knew, Nemesis, the just balancer of Fortune, may appear at a time of her choosing but usually toward the end. And apologies are never enough to stop her.

73 posted on 02/04/2026 8:55:17 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

> The whole thing stinks of the CIA, but we won’t talk about that.

Much popular speculation says Mossad, and it’s not worth talking about because 100% of the time on other forums conversation degrades from there.

For my part “almost certainly for one or more intelligence agencies” suffices — and at the least whether we ever get any of the marks/Johns on criminal charges, they need to be removed from any office or position of responsibility because of that. (At minimum!— if all was made known it’d probably be a pitchfork and torch situation unless that makes someone think those wacky 17th-letter-people were right. Ha. Ha.)

Remember when drugs, perversion and other ill behavior disqualified people from jobs because they might be put under blackmail? Now -unless- something can be blackmailed they are not able to ascend.


74 posted on 02/04/2026 9:20:15 AM PST by No.6
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To: V_TWIN

Not foolish. Evil.


75 posted on 02/04/2026 10:21:06 AM PST by navymom1 (God bless President Trump!)
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To: V_TWIN

Maybe he regrets spending time with Epstein, but he really enjoyed the underage puni he was getting.


76 posted on 02/04/2026 10:44:38 AM PST by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS )
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To: dforest
Melinda sure doesn’t give a rats arse about all the other evil doings of her ex husband. She still supports much of it.

Melinda didn't care about Bill consorting with a known child trafficker until Bill gave her an STD.

77 posted on 02/04/2026 12:19:01 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: V_TWIN
This is very ‘anti-semite’ of ol Bill (std) Gates!!!!!
78 posted on 02/04/2026 12:22:41 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, .......)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Yep, she sure is no saint.


79 posted on 02/04/2026 12:33:59 PM PST by dforest
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To: V_TWIN

“I was foolish...”

You ARE foolish!


80 posted on 02/05/2026 4:09:09 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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