Bill Gates has strongly denied allegations from the Jeffrey Epstein files suggesting he contracted a sexually transmitted disease from ‘Russian girls’.
The US Justice Department released a trove of documents on January 30, including three million documents, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos connected to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died in custody in 2019 while facing sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.
The release of these documents has brought several public figures into the spotlight, though their presence in the files does not imply any illegal behavior.
One of the documents contains explosive claims about Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, seemingly outlined in a memo Epstein had written to himself.
This memo alleged that Gates engaged with ‘Russian girls’ and requested antibiotics to ‘covertly give’ to his former wife, Melinda.
An email dated July 18, 2013, reads: “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.”
An earlier email from the same day suggested Epstein was stepping down from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation amid a ‘severe marital dispute’ between the Gates couple. He also claimed he had been asked to perform actions ‘potentially over the line into the illegal’.
“From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall fro [sic] bridge tournamnts [sic],” Epstein purportedly wrote.
A representative for Gates has firmly refuted the allegations, stating: “These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false.
“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.”
Regarding Gates’ marriage, Melinda Gates recounted in her memoir, The Next Day, that she realized their relationship was ending when she had recurring nightmares of falling from heights and waking up in panic.
She acknowledged that Gates had been unfaithful and had publicly confessed to it. The decision to live apart was challenging for both, she shared.
She wrote: “As dramatic as it sounds. I knew, in that moment, that I was going to have to make a decision—and that I was going to have to make it by myself.”