Melinda says Epstein papers revive painful memories!
nternational Edition, Feb 4 (EFE).—
Melinda French Gates, the former wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, said the declassified documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein revive “very painful moments” from her marriage.
Calling for justice for the victims, She insisted that those named in the files must provide answers.
“For me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up, right? Because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage,” French Gates said in an interview on Wild Card, a podcast by US public broadcaster NPR.
The philanthropist stressed that it is Bill Gates, whose contacts with Epstein are documented in the released files, who should respond to any remaining questions.
“Whatever questions remain there of what, I can’t even begin to know all of it, those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband,” she said. “They need to answer to those things, not me.”
The Epstein documents include references to Gates’ relationship with the financier.
In a 2013 message cited in the files, Epstein suggested that Gates may have contracted a sexually transmitted disease after sleeping with “Russian girls” and proposed secretly giving antibiotics to Melinda Gates without her knowledge.
A spokesperson for Bill Gates rejected those claims in a statement to The New York Times, describing Epstein as “a habitual and resentful liar” and calling the allegations “utterly absurd and completely false.”
“The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration at not maintaining a relationship with Gates and how far he was willing to go to set a trap and defame him,” the spokesperson said.
Bill and Melinda Gates married in 1994 and divorced in 2021 after nearly three decades together, during which they built the Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations, with donations exceeding $100 billion, according to Gates.
French Gates has previously said that her former husband’s association with Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019, was among the factors that led to their separation.
In the NPR interview, which will air in full on Thursday, French Gates said the Justice Department revelations fill her with “incredible sadness,” while emphasizing the suffering of Epstein’s victims.
“I’m able to take my own sadness and look at those young girls and say, my God, how did that happen to those girls?” she said. “At least for me, I’ve been able to move on in life, and I hope there’s some justice for those now-women.” EFE mgr-sk
