Bill Gates talks about her friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, calling herself “stupid” and saying that spending any time with him is a “huge mistake”.
Gates talked to Wall Street Journal In an interview published on Friday, the remarks he presented in the past years, on the eve of his new edition of the book.
AND Microsoft co -founder, 69, author “Original Code: My Beginnings”, which will be published on February 4th.
“Retrospectively, I was stupid to spend anytime with him,” Gates said about Epstein. “I think I was pretty stupid. I thought it would help me with global health philanthropy. In fact, that didn’t work. It was just a huge mistake.”
Bill Gates repeatedly met Jeffrey Epstein, “admits it was a” huge mistake “
Bill Gates, left, publicly addressed his relationship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, to the right, several times over the years. (Getty/AP)
Epstein, the infamous predator, acknowledged the guilt of the acquisition of insufficient girls in 2008, and began to continue his relationship with Gates in 2010 to help repair his own disorder at that time, according to a New York post report.
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In this February 1, 2019, a photo, Bill and Melinda Gates laugh at each other during an interview in Kirkland, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file))
Gates and Epstein met several times before Epstein’s death in 2019, when Epstein hanged himself to a prison cell in 2019 while waiting for trial Sex trade fees.
Gates said the situation made him more careful than his relationships.
A billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Ma, September 8, 2024. Epstein was associated with several distinguished people, including politicians, actors and academics. Epstein was convicted of sex with an insufficient woman. (Rick Friedman/Corbis)
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Gates’s ex -wife, Melinda GatesShe said she was careful about his interactions with Epstein and once met him personally.
Said Gayle King in an interview in 2021 that Epstein was “evil personified”.
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
