Jeffrey Epstein reportedly advised Bill Gates to end his "toxic" marriage
The divorce between the founder of Microsoft and his philanthropic wife had been expected since 2019, according to the Wall Street Journal. Melinda Gates, worried about the friendship between her husband and the pedophile businessman, had herself consulted lawyers at the time.
The divorce of multibillionaires Bill and Melinda Gates, announced in early May, would therefore not be a surprise. The negotiations were said to have taken place in secret in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Wall Street Journal, which would have had access to certain documents, Melinda Gates would have herself consulted certain lawyers specializing in family law two years ago, calling her marriage to Bill Gates "irreparably broken". The wife of the third richest man in the world has reportedly polled several firms since 2019, to find the best way to end 27 years of union.
"We no longer think we are able to evolve together, as a couple, in this next stage of our lives," they announced with one voice on May 3 on their respective Twitter accounts, leaving nothing to filter the reasons of their breakup. Yet, according to an employee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Gates would have clearly pointed the finger at her husband's questionable relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, another billionaire accused of child sex trafficking, found hanged in his home. cell in August 2019.
Advice from Jeffrey Epstein
In October of the same year, the New York Times showed that Bill Gates had met the late accused, friend of Ghislaine Maxwell, during numerous "meetings", including one, until late at night, in his apartment in the Upper East Side. At the time, Bridgitt Arnold, spokesperson for Bill Gates, had justified these appointments with charitable projects, while declaring that he "regretted" having had "an error in judgment".
According to an article in the Daily Beast, published on Sunday, May 16, the billionaire would have met Jeffrey Epstein a dozen times between 2011 and 2014. “Very close”, according to an anonymous witness, the businessmen would have spoken at length. regarding the marriage of Bill and Melinda Gates. The Microsoft co-founder would have described his union as "toxic". Words that would have aroused the hilarity of Jeffrey Epstein. The latter would then have given him advice to end his marriage. Bill Gates would have, moreover, proposed to his friend to "restore his image" with the general public by working for his foundation.
Words that Bridgitt Arnold, the spokesperson for the billionaire, has since brushed aside. "It is very disappointing that so many lies have been published about the causes, circumstances and timeline of Bill Gates' divorce," she said. Your description of his philanthropy-centric encounters with Epstein and others is wrong. (...) Likewise, any claim that Gates spoke of his marriage or of Melinda in a derogatory manner is false. "
Bad impression
For her part, Melinda Gates, a staunch defender of the emancipation of women and girls in the world, would have expressed her reservations about the character of Epstein from the moments following their first meeting with the businessman in 2013, explained a foundation employee in the Wall Sreet Journal.
In early 2020, the Gates couple surprised their world by not going to the Davos Economic Forum. Bill Gates then announced in March 2020 that he was stepping down from Microsoft's board of directors. The couple had then started discussions around the use of their fortune, estimated at 124 billion dollars. Coincidence or not, in the legal team was already Robert Stephan Cohen, famous lawyer specializing in the divorce of the rich & famous.
