The now-dead sex trafficker allegedly emailed Gates the veiled threat after failing to convince the billionaire to participate in a charity fund he tried to start.
Jeffrey Epstein had tried to blackmail Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates after discovering the billionaire had an affair with a Russian bridge player years earlier,, when she was in her 20s. Epstein, a disgraced financier, met the bridge player in 2013 and reportedly paid for her to attend classes for software coding. Epstein emailed Gates in 2017 asking to be reimbursed for the course’s cost, people familiar with the matter told the Journal, which published its report on Sunday.
Gates began meeting with Epstein in 2011, when the financier was already convicted of sex crimes and had to register as a sex offender, The New York Times reported in 2019. Gates previously said that the purpose of meeting with Epstein was to raise money for global health, in line with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s goal of improving health care access worldwide.with Epstein despite ex-wife Melinda French Gates saying she felt uncomfortable with the meetings.
“Epstein agreed to pay and he paid directly to the school,” she told the outlet. “Nothing was exchanged. I don’t know why he did that. When I asked, he said something like, he was wealthy and wanted to help people when he could.”
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