Mon 22 May 2023:
Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker, allegedly blackmailed Bill Gates and threatened to disclose his alleged affair with a Russian bridge player.
The late paedophile threatened to expose the Microsoft co-founder’s supposed affair with Mila Antonova if Gates didn’t reimburse him for tuition costs that Epstein had initially covered for the woman to attend a software coding school, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Gates met Mila Antonova around 2010, when he was in his mid-50s and she was in her 20s. Epstein met her three years later and paid for her to attend a software coding school, before emailing Gates in 2017 and asking for the cost of her tuition, the newspaper claimed, citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Mila Antonova in a video from 2010 talks about playing bridge with Bill Gates (Screengrab/ IgniteNYC)
At the time of the email, Epstein had been trying unsuccessfully to convince Gates to invest in “a multibillion dollar charitable fund” with JPMorgan Chase, the paper continued, explaining that “the implication behind the message…was that Epstein could reveal the affair if Gates didn’t keep up an association between the two men.”
A spokeswoman for Gates confirmed the exchange, stating that “Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Gates.”
His ex-wife Melinda French Gates said that the clandestine Epstein meetings were a factor in their 2021 divorce.
In a 2022 interview with CBS News, French Gates said she went to meet Epstein because she “wanted to see who this man was”, and that she “regretted it from the second I stepped in the door”.
She described Epstein as “abhorrent” and “evil personified”, and said she had nightmares about the meeting afterwards.
The charitable fund was supposed to be a way for Epstein to rebuild his reputation, according to the WSJ report.
Epstein and Gates first met in 2011, after Epstein had already been convicted for soliciting a child for prostitution. The pair met “many times,” according to a 2019 New York Times report, with Gates telling colleagues that he found Epstein’s lifestyle “very different and kind of intriguing, although it would not work for me.”
Gates now describes his relationship with Epstein as “a mistake,” and told CBS News that he should have taken his ex-wife’s advice and cut ties with the child molester “sooner than I did.”
The cost of Antonova’s coding classes was “immaterial for the two men,” and Gates did not pay, the Wall Street Journal’s sources said. They described Epstein’s email as a means of telling Gates that he “knew about the affair and could expose it.”
In this 28 March 2017 photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein (New York State Sex Offender Registry).
In his 2019 book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales, author Dylan Howard alleged that Epstein had been a Mossad spy after being introduced to the Israeli spy firm by Robert Maxwell, the father of his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
The book claimed that Epstein and Ghislaine had lured prominent politicians and celebrities to his proprieties, and filmed them having sex with underage girls.
The tapes’ existence has never been confirmed by authorities.
Epstein’s network included former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, billionaire Les Weiner and Prince Andrew.
Epstein was arrested in 2019 and charged with the sex trafficking of dozens of underage girls, but was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell before he could be brought to trial. His death was ruled a suicide, although this official explanation was met with widespread skepticism, due to his close ties to wealthy and powerful figures, including former US President Bill Clinton, current CIA Director William Burns, and Britain’s Prince Andrew.
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