Bill Gates caught a sexually transmitted disease after sleeping with “Russian girls”, Jeffrey Epstein claimed in files released by the US Justice Department.
Epstein, who died in prison in 2019, also claimed the Microsoft founder asked for antibiotics he could “surreptitiously give” to his then-wife Melinda, from whom he is now divorced.
The US Justice Department on Friday, Jan. 30, released a large batch of files related to its investigation into financier Jeffrey Epstein, reviving claims involving Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, including allegations concerning an alleged s£xually transmitted disease.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the department was releasing more than three million pages of documents, as well as over 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. He said the files, posted on the department’s website, include some of the several million pages that officials said were withheld from an initial release in December.
Blanche said Friday’s release “marks the end of a very comprehensive document identification and review process to ensure transparency to the American people.” He blamed the delay on the need to protect the identities of more than 1,000 alleged victims.
The three million pages of documents released by the Trump administration on Friday, Jan. 30, contain new photographs of Epstein with Bill Gates
Also among the newly released documents are draft emails that appear to have been written by Epstein and focus on Gates.
In a separate email, Epstein told Peter Mandelson he had “monstrous fun” with Bill Gates in Seattle.
The emails include claims accusing Gates of attempting to conceal an STD from his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, following alleged s£xual encounters with women described as “Russian girls.”
Epstein appeared to be making the claims in a draft statement on behalf of Gates’ longtime science adviser, Boris Nikolic.
The draft claims involvement in activities ranging from allegedly helping Gates obtain drugs “to deal with consequences of s£x with Russian girls.”
The email read, “I have been asked and wrongly acquiesced into participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate, to the ethically unsound and had been repeatedly asked to do other things that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal. From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of s£x with Russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall fro [sic] bridge tournaments I feel I owe it to my friends and futre [sic] colleagues to admit a moral failure, to ask forgiveness and to move on with my life.”
In a separate draft email addressed to Gates, Epstein, again writing as Nikolic, accused the billionaire of attempting to stage a “cover up” to protect his public image. The draft alleges Gates asked for antibiotics so they could be given to Melinda without her knowledge, and urged the deletion of emails referring to an alleged STD.
The draft stated, “To add insult to the injury you them [sic] implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis.”
The draft goes on to warn of damage if Melinda were to file for a public divorce, saying it could hurt a pledge programme by billions of dollars.
“I am concerned that if Melinda decides as you said to file for a public divorce, the damage done to the pledge programme alone would result in billions of dollars of money no longer being used for social good as Im [sic] sure that some wives and husbands would feel free to retreat from their commitments.”
The document release also revisits reports that Epstein threatened to expose Gates’ alleged affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova in 2017. According to previous reporting, the threat came after Gates declined to participate in a charitable fund Epstein had launched with JP Morgan Chase.
Gates and Melinda French Gates were married from 1994 to 2021. Melinda has previously said that Gates’ extramarital affairs and his association with Epstein were factors in their divorce, though she has not provided further details.
The files also reveal that Epstein offered Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) dinner with a 26-year-old Russian girl, as well as a claim that Epstein gave Lord Mandelson’s husband £10,000 for an osteopathy course.
Seven years after his d£ath, Epstein continues to cast a long shadow over those who were in his orbit.
