Invoice Gates is once more talking about his friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein by calling himself “foolish” and saying that spending any time with him was a “huge mistake.”
Gates spoke with the Wall Avenue Journal in a Friday-released interview, echoing remarks he has made in years previous, forward of his new e book launch.
The Microsoft co-founder, 69, authored “Source Code: My Beginnings,” that’s set to launch on February 4.
“In retrospect, I was foolish to spend any time with him,” Gates mentioned of Epstein. “I think I was quite stupid. I thought it would help me with global health philanthropy. In fact, it failed to do that. It was just a huge mistake.”
BILL GATES MET WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN ‘A NUMBER OF TIMES,’ ADMITS IT WAS ‘HUGE MISTAKE’
Invoice Gates, left, has publicly addressed his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, proper, a number of occasions over time. (Getty/AP)
Epstein, a infamous predator, pleaded responsible to procuring underaged ladies in 2008, and commenced to pursue a relationship with Gates in 2010 to assist sanitize his personal marred picture on the time, in accordance with a New York Submit report.
On this Feb. 1, 2019, file picture, Invoice and Melinda Gates smile at one another throughout an interview in Kirkland, Wash. (AP Picture/Elaine Thompson, File))
Gates and Epstein had met a handful of occasions earlier than Epstein’s loss of life in 2019, when Epstein hanged himself in a jail cell in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking costs.
Gates mentioned the scenario made him extra cautious of his connections.
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, MA on Sept. 8, 2024. Epstein was related with a number of outstanding folks, together with politicians, actors and teachers. Epstein was convicted of getting intercourse with an underaged lady. (Rick Friedman/Corbis)
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Gates’ ex-wife, Melinda Gates, has mentioned she was cautious of his interactions with Epstein and met him personally on one event.
She advised Gayle King in an interview in 2021 that Epstein was “evil personified.”
Fox Information’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
