Posted on 11/19/2025 1:38:14 PM PST by DFG
Bill Gates 'loved' Jeffrey Epstein, but his former wife Melinda banned him from speaking with the convicted sex offender, explosive text messages allege.
Several messages from the myriad Epstein files released this month have given an insight into the friendship between the disgraced financier and tech tycoon Gates.
Epstein spoke with Gates' adviser in 2017 about a venture that never materialized - partly because the Microsoft founder's spouse wanted them to stop speaking.
'He wants to talk to you but his wife won't let him,' Gates' adviser told Epstein, per CBS News.
The adviser followed up with a series of text messages, adding that 'he loves you', 'he says hi', and 'he feels bad' about having to abandon their business proposals.
'He thought great idea but his wife wouldn't allow,' the adviser wrote.
Melinda and Bill Gates divorced in August 2021 after 27 years of marriage, and Melinda said his friendship with Epstein was a key factor in their split.
'I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. I made that clear to him,' she told Vanity Fair at the time, adding that she met the sex offender 'exactly one time'.
Gates has not been charged with any crimes in connection with his friendship with Epstein, who died in his prison cell on August 10, 2019.
'Meeting with Epstein was a mistake that I regret deeply. It was a substantial error in judgement,' Gates told CBS News in a 2022 statement.
'I remain dedicated to my work at the Gates Foundation in partnership with Melinda, where our focus is to help reduce global inequities, giving every person the chance to live a healthy and productive life,' he added.
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I remain dedicated to my work at the Gates Foundation in partnership with Melinda, where our focus is to help reduce global inequities, giving every person the chance to live a healthy and productive life,’ he added.
Laughable!
That’s why he’s pushing deadly “vaccines” so d@m hard.
Well, Gates IS democrat.... OUT THEM ALL... EVERY LAST ONE OF THE ‘LOLITA EXPRESS FREQUENT FLYERS’... Bill Clinton rode on the Lolita Express 27 times. Hello Washington Post and New York Times. Why the bias? LOL
‘his wife won’t let him,’
‘ his wife wouldn’t allow,’
That Melinda Gates... such a buzzkill.
Seriously, though, long before Gates got married, I remember seeing stories hinting at what a decadent perv he was. Melinda didn’t care. She married a sleazeball billionaire for the money and then complained about him being a sleazeball. No sympathy.
Epstein was by all accounts a exceptional salesperson with a genius-level ability to mirror and ingratiate that rivaled Bill Clinton’s. He was able to convince people to entrust him with large sums of money at a very young age, and was able to get very powerful people to welcome him into their intimate circles and trust him.
I don’t live very far from Gate’s Seattle house so I’ve heard some gossip. There are stories of him visiting a certain house frequently during the day. This was reported by the neighbors of the women living in that house.
I don’t fault his wife for this. She has moved on to an ordinary neighborhood in Seattle.
All that money and still can’t cover the creep factor that is Gates.
Hardly explosive or new. All that was known at the time of Melinda’s divorce from Bill, that he hung out with the creep Epstein and that he also had an established long-term affair with another woman across the country from their home in the northwest..
I’ve heard that he was more of a voyeur than participant.
Wait wait wait...
I thought Bill knew a lemon when he saw one.
That three person tableau will never wear out!
We have all either seen or experienced it.
These twenty somethings are a new model of it.
Still works.
AT LEAST IT SEEMS MELINDA’S RADAR WAS WORKING
What was Melinda’s beef with Epstein?
Gates is PURE EVIL!!! he wants BILLIONS of PEOPLE to be NOT ON EARTH!! HE WANTS THEM DEAD!!!
Pretty sure that Melinda, upon meeting Epstein. said she KNEW HE WAS EVIL!!<P.I felt the same way when I met Larry Flynt, not even knowing anything about him!! I SENSED PURE EVIL!
He is an evil little man.
Like Peter Sellers in ‘Being There’.
I remain dedicated to my work at the Gates Foundation in partnership with Melinda, where our focus is to help reduce global inequities, giving every person the chance to live a healthy and productive life
is Bill saying
“Look! Squirrel!”
“Epstein made his fortune by providing tax and estate services to billionaires”
seems highly unlikely given that there are hundreds of LEGITIMATE other folks that could do exactly that same thing ... plus, how many billionaire accounts can one person take on? ... i read that he actually made his fortune by blackmail, which makes much more sense and that the blackmail payments were made under the guise of “tax and estate services” ...
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