I Regret Every Minute With Epstein – Bill Gates

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said he regrets “every minute” he spent with Jeffrey Epstein, after newly released court documents included claims about their past interactions.

The latest batch of files released last week by the U.S. Department of Justice contains emails and draft correspondence linked to Epstein and a number of prominent figures.

Epstein said in a draft email that was never sent that Gates had affairs, helped Bill get drugs to deal with the consequences of having sex with Russian girls, and allowed him to have illegal trysts with married women.

“From helping Bill to get drugs in order to deal with consequences of s** with russian girls, to facilictating his illicit trysts with married women, to being asked to provide adderall fro bridge toumamnts. as I am a medical doctor, but have no presriptions writing abiltiy,” Epstein wrote in an email to himself (with lots of typos), as per several reports.

Gates, however, has denied the claims during his interview with 9News Australia on Wednesday.

“Every minute I spent with him, I regret, and I apologise,” Gates said, noting that “That email was never sent. The email is false.”

The billionaire added that he did not know what Epstein was thinking, adding, “Was he trying to attack me in some way?”

A spokesperson for Gates had issued a similar statement following the document release, saying the material reflects Epstein’s frustration at not maintaining a relationship with Gates.

The spokesperson accused the now-deceased Epstein of attempting to defame the Microsoft co-founder.

“The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame,” the spokesperson wrote.

Bill Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates. Credit: NY Times.

Gates claimed that although he had multiple dinners with Epstein over the years after meeting him in 2011, their relationship did not extend further.

He also said he never visited Epstein’s private island and denied any inappropriate conduct.

“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,” he stated, adding that “in retrospect, that was a dead end.”

Gates’ former wife, Melinda French Gates, told National Public Radio (NPR) that the document release revived painful memories from their marriage.

The philanthropist, who divorced Gates in 2021, opened up about her reaction to the controversy, saying she was “happy to be away from all the muck.”

“Whatever questions remain there of what – I can’t even begin to know all of it – those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband. They need to answer to those things, not me,” Melinda said.

Epstein died by suicide in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.