Epstein notes about Bill Gates renew questions about Microsoft founder

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31 Jan, 2026





Bill Gates’ connections with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein resurfaced Friday when the Justice Department released 3 million pages of documents, including emailed notes Epstein purportedly sent himself about Gates. In emails sent from Epstein’s account to himself in 2013, the disgraced financier appeared to claim that Gates had extramarital sex with “Russian girls” and contracted a sexually transmitted disease. A spokesperson for Gates roundly denied the allegations and disputed the validity of the emails. The two emails in question were sent about one hour apart. Whether they were ever sent to Gates or anyone else is unclear, and the emails were filled with typos and written in an frenzied manner. One email is addressed “dear Bill” and is apparently written from the point of view of a fired employee who claims they were treated unfairly by Gates and involved in a conflict with Melinda French Gates. In another email Epstein sent to himself on the same day, he wrote that he had been “caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill” and had been “helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women.” That email also is written like an emotional resignation letter, perhaps for a Gates employee.

The statement from Gates’ spokesperson called the claims “completely absurd.”

“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 statement from Gates’ spokesperson said.

The ages of the “girls” were not mentioned.

The messages were sent not long after Epstein attempted to broker a venture between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase, according to The New York Times.

Epstein, who was convicted of child prostitution-related offenses in 2008, died in 2019 while awaiting trial on additional sex-trafficking and rape allegations.

Gates comes up in the Epstein files hundreds of times. In a 2021 interview, he said his relationship with Epstein was a “huge mistake.”

Melinda French Gates talked about her ex-husband’s ties with Epstein in a 2022 prerecorded interview with “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King. She described Epstein as “abhorrent” and “evil personified” and said she made her feelings clear to Gates.

French Gates and Gates divorced in 2021.

Documents from lawsuits filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre showed connections between Epstein and former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold.

Gates’ ties to Epstein were revealed by The New York Times in 2019. The number of powerful and wealthy individuals connected to Epstein has ballooned in the past year after the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed, compelling the DOJ to release millions of documents and images.

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