Email Shows Jeffrey Epstein Wanted To Expose Bill Gates

Late paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly threatened to expose an alleged affair between Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and a Russian bridge player after he refused to join his philanthropic initiative.

In a 2017 email, Epstein, who later took his own life in 2019, appeared to threaten Gates about the alleged affair with the Russian Mila Antonova, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Gates and Antonova played in a tournament together in 2010, following Antonova’s relocation to the Bay Area to work as a software engineer, according to the newspaper.

Although Antonova revealed in a 2010 video about her love of bridge that she was friendly with Gates, sources told the Journal that the two allegedly had a brief romance when Gates was still wed to his then-wife, Melinda French Gates.

According to the story, Epstein met Antonova while she was looking for investors for a bridge academy and later paid for her to attend a software coding school.

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The Wall Street Journal said that in the 2017 email, Epstein requested that Gates pay him back for the money he had spent on Antonova’s coding training.

According to the newspaper, the mail arrived shortly after Gates declined to join the convicted sex offender’s multibillion-dollar foundation, which he was attempting to launch with US bank JPMorgan Chase.

Gates, 67, has admitted to and expressed sorrow for meeting with Epstein many times in the 2010s following Epstein’s conviction in Florida on charges of soliciting and hiring a child for prostitution as part of efforts to acquire money for the Gates Foundation.

“Mr Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr Gates,” a spokesperson for Gates said.

According to the spokesperson, Gates never followed through on the threat and had “no financial dealings” with Epstein.

When they first met, Antonova claimed to the Journal that she had no idea who Epstein actually was and had assumed that he was simply a “successful businessman who wanted to help.”

Antonova said, “I am disgusted with Epstein and what he did.” However, she would not address her purported friendship with Gates.