On August 10, 2019, Epstein died by suicide at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City following his arrest on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. 'Gates recognizes that entertaining Epstein's ideas related to philanthropy gave Epstein an undeserved platform that was at odds with Gates' personal values and the values of his foundation.' 'Bill Gates regrets ever meeting with Epstein and recognizes it was an error in judgment to do so,' Arnold said. The same spokesperson told Insider in 2019 that: 'Epstein misrepresented the nature of his meetings with Gates while also working to insert himself behind-the-scenes without Gates's knowledge,' and said that Gates and Epstein never socialized together and that the disgraced financier actively pursued a relationship with her client. 'There were people around him who were saying, hey, if you want to raise money for global health and get more philanthropy, he knows a lot of rich people.'īill and Melinda Gates in September, 2018 LUDOVIC MARIN 2019 'I didn't go to New Mexico or Florida or Palm Beach or any of that,' he explained. I didn't have any business relationship or friendship with him,' Gates told the Wall Street Journal in 2019. 2018īill Gates' meetings with Epstein were publicized and reported on in 2018, prompting a spokesperson for the tech mogul to say at the time that the meetings had focused on philanthropy. That plane is the infamous 'Lolita Express' that gained notoriety due to it being purposely designed for mid-air sex, per The Sun. In this same year, Bill Gates is reported to have flown with Epstein on his private jet from New Jersey to Palm Beach, Florida. The meeting was reportedly on the same day that the couple accepted the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.

Gates' Divorce Documents Include Order to Keep Both From Selling Propertyīill and Melinda Gates met with Epstein at his Upper East Side mansion in September 2013, according to The Daily Beast.Ģ013 was four years after Epstein was sentenced to prison for soliciting a minor under the age of 18 for sex.

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Staley, at the time a senior JPMorgan executive, and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and Boris Nikolic, who was the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's science adviser. The two men met again in 2011, on May 3 and were photographed along with James E. Gates.'Īrnold also said of this meeting: 'Gates recognizes that entertaining Epstein's ideas related to philanthropy gave Epstein an undeserved platform that was at odds with Gates's personal values and the values of his foundation.'

She said that Gates was 'referring only to the unique décor of the Epstein residence-and Epstein's habit of spontaneously bringing acquaintances in to meet Mr. However, Bill Gates' spokesperson Bridgitt Arnold told the newspaper that the email 'was in no way meant to convey a sense of interest or approval.'

He also said that he stayed late into the night on this occasion, writing in the email: 'A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late.' The New York Times also claimed that Bill Gates sent an email about Epstein to colleagues in 2011, saying: 'His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me.' Eva Andersson-Dubin, a former Miss Sweden who Epstein had once dated, and her 15-year-old daughter. On this occasion, Gates and Epstein were joined by Dr. Rick Friedman/Paul Best/Corbis via Getty Images 2011īill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein reportedly first met in January 2011 in New York City. Bill Gates attends the Telluride Film Festival 2019 on Augin Telluride, Colorado. Epstein was convicted of having sex with an underaged woman. Epstein was connected with several prominent people including politicians, actors and academics. Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on 9/8/04.

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