Bill Gates says Epstein’s bizarre STD email about him is ‘false,’ but he still had to address the claim about secretly giving his ex-wife something

Tech titan Bill Gates has finally spoken out, forcefully denying the wild claims made in a bizarre email written by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as reported by ABC News. Mr. Gates addressed the allegations publicly for the first time in an interview, following the release of a massive batch of documents by the US government. The documents suggest Mr. Gates met with Epstein on multiple occasions after Epstein’s 2008 prison sentence to discuss expanding his philanthropic efforts.

The most shocking claim comes from a 2013 email Epstein sent to himself. In that message, Epstein appears to suggest that Mr. Gates had contracted a sexually transmitted disease from trysts with women and sought help to secretly give his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, antibiotics.

Mr. Gates stated that the email was completely false and was never actually sent. “Jeffrey wrote an email to himself, that email was never sent,” he said. “The email is, you know, false. So I don’t know what his thinking was there.” He added that the whole situation just reminds him that “every minute I spent with regret and I, you know, apologise that I did that.”

The question is whether we have a judicial system capable of pursuing powerful men like Bill Gates if the allegations actually hold some merit

The documents show Epstein was apparently “dismayed” that Mr. Gates was ending their friendship over the “accident.” The typo-ridden email included a deeply disturbing passage where Epstein wrote: “TO add insult to injury you them implore me to please delete the emails mails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis.”

He made it clear that while he was only at dinners with Epstein, he never visited Epstein’s infamous island and never met any women in connection with the sex offender. “The more that comes out, the more clear it will be that although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behaviour,” Mr. Gates said.

Epstein’s internal communication didn’t stop with the STD claims. In another email from that same year, he accused Mr. Gates of involving him in activities he deemed “morally inappropriate” and “ethically unsound.” These claims ranged from helping Gates secure drugs to dealing with “consequences of sex with russian girls,” facilitating trysts with married women, and even providing Adderall for bridge tournaments.

Epstein claimed he ultimately resigned from a Gates-founded think tank, BG3, and the Gates Foundation because he got caught up in a “severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill.” Melinda French Gates had recently called on her ex-husband to answer these exact claims.

Ms. French Gates had previously said the questions about the documents were for Mr. Gates to answer, not her. She also mentioned feeling “unbelievable sadness” when she learned of the allegations detailed in the documents, noting that the allegations of child sexual abuse were “beyond heartbreaking.”