Melinda Gates went in her first interview since her divorce from her ex-husband Bill Gates. She revealed that Bill Gates‘ relationship with Jeffrey Epstein played a part in the couple’s split.
During her interview with CBS Mornings, Melinda said that she insisted on meeting Epstein back in 2011 for the reason that she wanted to see who Epstein was.
She told host Gayle King “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffery Epstein. I made that clear to him. I also met Jeffery Epstein exactly one time. I wanted to see who this man was and I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door.”
“He was abhorrent, evil personified,” Melinda said. “I had nightmares about it afterward. That’s why my heart breaks for these young women. That’s how I felt, and I am an older woman. He was awful.”
Bill’s decision to continue his friendship with Epstein is one of the main issues that prompted their divorce in May 2021, ending their 27-year marriage, Melinda claimed.
“It was not one thing, it was many things [that led to the divorce]. Any of the questions remaining about what Bill’s relationship with him was…those are for Bill to answer. I made it very clear how I felt about him,” she said.
Melinda also revealed that she and her ex-husband are not friends but only talking ‘friendly’ and work together, as she claimed that he had more than one affair throughout their 27-year-marriage.
“Those are questions Bill needs to answer,” she said when asked about reports he cheated multiple times. He previously acknowledged one affair.
“I believe in forgiveness. I thought we had worked through some of that,” Melinda said of his 2000 affair with a Microsoft employee. “I gave every single piece of myself to this marriage. I was committed from the day we got engaged to the day I got out of it.”
In a statement to CBS, the billionaire said that he now regrets spending time with Epstein, who was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. “Meeting with Epstein was a mistake that I regret deeply,” Bill told the network. “It was a substantial error in judgement.”
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According to a 2019 report from The New York Times, the tech tycoon began meeting with Epstein in 2011 — three years after his conviction. When the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation cochairs first announced their split in 2021, reports circulated that the Kappa Alpha Theta sister had warned her husband about associating with the disgraced businessman.
“I had dinners with him. I regret doing that. He had relationships with people he said would give to global health which is an interest I had and not nearly enough philanthropy goes in that direction. Those meetings were a mistake and I cut them off. That goes back a long time ago now. So there’s nothing new on that.
Gates declared, “He’s dead. So in general you always have to be careful I am very proud of what we do in philanthropy.”
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