Bill Gates addressed the allegations made about him in the latest batch of files the Department of Justice released on Jeffrey Epstein, saying he is “one of many people who regret ever knowing” the late sex predator.
The materials uploaded to the DOJ’s website last week include draft emails written by Epstein in 2013 to himself, including one in which he claimed to have helped Bill Gates get medication to treat a sexually transmitted infection he got from having “sex with Russian girls.” The disgraced financier also alleged he facilitated the Microsoft co-founder’s “illicit trysts with married women.”
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In a separate email, Epstein claimed Gates tried to secretly give his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, antibiotics for an STI.
“TO add insult to the injury you then subsequently with tears in your eyes, 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 email reads.
In an interview with Australia’s Nine News released Wednesday, Gates denied the allegations.
“Apparently Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. That email was never sent. The email is false, so I don’t know what his thinking was there,” Gates said.
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It’s unclear which of the emails Gates was referring to.
“Every minute I spent with him, I regret, and I apologize that I did that,” Gates added.