Bill Gates has always dealt in numbers. Take 2,368, for instance – the number of times his name appears in three million pages of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice earlier this year.
Or how about three? That’s the number of women that Gates has admitted to having affairs with during an hours-long interview with the US House Oversight Committee on 10 June about his friendship with Epstein, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial over sex crimes.
The transcripts were released this week and make for eyebrow-raising reading, not least for the three women that Gates had affairs with and has now named: bridge player Mila Antonova, nuclear physicist Karima Nigmatulina and medical entrepreneur Dr Alice Jacobs Nesselrodt. Who can guess how they’re feeling right now?
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Of course, being included in the Epstein files is no indication of criminality and he hasn’t been accused of any. But, undeniably, the long-held image of Gates as a happy, family man who just happens to possess unimaginable wealth (currently about $105bn) has shattered.
