What does pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have to do with Bill Gates' divorce?
Melinda Gates did not like that her husband was dealing with the deceased criminal and that could be one of the reasons that led her to think about separating from her, according to the United States press.
Everything seemed to indicate, in principle, that the divorce of the fifth richest couple in the world is amicable, but new revelations suggest that the frictions between the Gates are not only very serious, but they come from long ago.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Melinda has been working on the divorce issue with her attorneys since late 2019, just as she was experiencing growing concern about her husband's relationship with millionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was about to be convicted. for serious crimes of trafficking of girls for sexual purposes when he died, under strange circumstances.
According to the New York newspaper, those conversations between Melinda and her lawyers coincided with an article in which The New York Times reported on several meetings between the Microsoft co-founder and the controversial financier, who would appear dead months later in his cell, in August 2019. It was ruled suicide, but doubts remain about the possibility that he was murdered.
The two businessmen had met eight years earlier, the newspaper continued, and once even chatted late into the night at Epstein's Manhattan residence.
That same year, Bill Gates spokeswoman Bridgitt Arnold informed the press that the millionaire did indeed meet with Epstein to discuss philanthropy.
"Bill Gates regrets meeting with Epstein and acknowledges that it was an error in judgment," the spokeswoman noted.
Other media, such as the Daily Beast, also aired the version of Melinda's strong disgust about it, since during the years that her husband and Epstein were in contact, the scandal over the latter's crimes was in the public domain, both in the United States. United as in the rest of the world.
The Epstein affair, as it is remembered, has peppered more than one high-profile figure, from former presidents such as Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, to royal figures such as Andrew, the Duke of York and the son of Queen Elizabeth II, who was seen forced to strip him of his functions as a member of the royal family, since he has not been able to clarify whether he enjoyed the sexual favors of one of the adolescents whom Epstein subjected to his abuse.
All those celebrities, in one way or another, have come out to get his name clean in the matter and Gates' turn was a month after Epstein's death, when he declared: “I met with him. I did not establish any relationship or business or friendship with him.
She also clarified: “I did not go to New Mexico, Florida, Palm Beach or some of those places (there were the houses where Epstein had his orgies and excesses with the minors). There were people I heard him say, "Hey, if you want to raise money for global health and do more for philanthropy, this man (Epstein) knows a lot of rich people."
However, the Daily Mail of London claims that around that time it obtained flight records confirming that Gates flew in Epstein's private plane from New Jersey to Palm Beach, where one of the latter's mansions is located.
Bill Gates also found it important to emphasize that in all those encounters with Epstein there were only men. “I was never at parties or anything like that. He did not donate money for the works that I promote ”.
However, none of this seems to have gotten Melinda out of the idea that these contacts were inappropriate and last week she filed for divorce from Gates, after 27 years of marriage.
Other reports have revealed that the rivalry that began to emerge between the couple around the management of their Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to which he has donated more than 40,000 million of his fortune, was also the cause of the separation. The organization has a special focus on fighting diseases, including covid-19.
Regarding the money, it has been known that last week, coinciding with the divorce lawsuit, Bill Gates transferred to Melinda 2.4 billion dollars in shares, which suggests that they have already begun to distribute the assets.
