The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong
11 170The Daily Beast:
"Salacious claims from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Gates contracted an STD following 'sex with Russian girls,' and colluded with the disgraced financier on a plot to secretly slip his wife antibiotics, were revealed in the latest Epstein files release."
The New York Times. (Alternate URL)
"A representative of the Gates Foundation said, 'These claims — from a proven, disgruntled liar — are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame.'"
And Yahoo News points out the error of social media posts about the news: None paid attention to who actually wrote the email. The email was from Epstein — to Epstein... Both the "From" and "To" fields list Epstein's personal Gmail address. The message appears to be a draft, written during a period when Epstein's relationship with Gates had deteriorated. In it, Epstein alleges that Gates asked him to delete messages related to an STD. But the document does not show Gates making that request, nor does it provide independent confirmation that any of the claims are true.
It reads like Epstein venting. It is not Gates confessing.
"In a 2021 interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Gates called his relationship with the disgraced financier 'a huge mistake'," notes the New York Times. "He also sought to downplay his interactions with Epstein, saying he had several dinners with Epstein, with the hope of getting him to generate donations to the Gates Foundation."
11 comments
Follow the money (Score: 5, Interesting)
by ndsurvivor ( 891239 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:41AM (#65960874)
I don't understand why we can't have transparency on how Epstein made his money, and how it was spent. There must be a money trail. Seems like the odds are good that he got a hundred thousand here, another hundred thousand there, and that the people giving him that money most likely paid for unsavory services. That would drill down to the truth quickly.
Because you have a ruling class (Score: 5, Insightful)
by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:55AM (#65960910)
You're not going to get Justice against the ruling class. It's just how that works. You don't spill the blood of Kings.
The hard part with being American is that our ruling class figured out a while ago that taking the formal mantle of ruling class paints a nice big Target on them. So instead they called themselves billionaires or CEOs or philanthropists or whatever and a large percentage of the population ignores the fact that there are people who are above the law.
About the only thing we are going to get out of the Epstein files is some of the worst of the legislation that the ruling class would have rammed through in this first two years is going to get hamstrung by it and by the committee hearings wasting time.
Nobody is ever going to get brought to Justice because the people involved are above the law and a large percentage of the population is uncomfortable with changing that.
Re:Follow the money (Score: 5, Informative)
by quonset ( 4839537 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:42AM (#65961000)
Epstein was given a sweetheart deal by Alex Acosta who was Labor Secretary in Trump's first term. Instead of prosecuting him for the multiple instances of trafficking under federal laws, Epstein was given a single charge of soliciting prostitution and instead of spending it in prison, was allowed to spend most of his time at home under "prison release".
Pam Bondi, the AG for Florida from 2011 - 2019, then refused to pursue any charges against Epstein despite numerous instances of sworn testimony from victims.
It's all a giant nothing burger. If anyone is getting convicted from all this it'll be Clinton due to additional investigation and lets be honest, that isn't news to anybody.
Riiiiiiiigt. A "nothingburger". Clinton's the one who will take the fall. Tell us, is there any situation you can imagine where Trump or any of his minions would be held accountable for anything? After all, as the documents show, he was there on multiple occasions and the girls, not women, refused to enter a room when he was around.
But yeah, "Clinton".
Re:Follow the money (Score: 5, Informative)
by quonset ( 4839537 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @12:20PM (#65961048)
As a follow up, here is the unredacted document before the DOJ removed it [imgur.com] which has Trump forcing girls to perform oral sex on him as well the murder of her child after she got pregnant from being raped.
Sounds like a lie to me (Score: 5, Interesting)
by gurps_npc ( 621217 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:48AM (#65960892)
Finding a non-sent email in someone's draft folder, addressed to the author is not evidence.
I went into this story fully expecting to hate Bill Gates. Instead I find I agree with his statement. This looks like slander by a dead pedophile, not reality.
Re:Sounds like a lie to me (Score: 5, Interesting)
by 93 Escort Wagon ( 326346 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:13PM (#65961368)
Why would someone craft an email like that and save it to drafts?
Remember David Petraeus, and how he and his mistress shared a Gmail account where they'd send messages to each other by saving them as unsent drafts?
It appears that, at least for a while, some people were using this method as their own secret cloud storage service for stuff they didn't want discovered.
This slow release... (Score: 5, Informative)
by bradley13 ( 1118935 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:52AM (#65960900)
...with lots of redactions? Makes it pretty clear that people are being protected.
Let's be real: the entertainment offered by Epstein was sex with girls and young women. It is overwhelmingly likely that every regular male visitor was enjoying that entertainment.
The files must be released, but somehow the pimping and prostitution angles are missing. Strange...why would that be?
Re: This slow release... (Score: 5, Informative)
by liqu1d ( 4349325 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:56AM (#65960912)
You say that but they've already released documents clearly painting trump in his true colours which were swiftly removed then redacted and added back. They aren't protecting anyone at least not competently.
Re: This slow release... (Score: 5, Insightful)
by jacks smirking reven ( 909048 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:18AM (#65960940)
Authoritarianism by its very nature means you have to hire based on loyalty, not merit or skill. Incompetence is baked in.
The ex-wife (Score: 5, Informative)
by RitchCraft ( 6454710 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:53AM (#65960906)
Gates' ex-wife knows the truth.
Who cares about Gates (Score: 5, Insightful)
by ArchieBunker ( 132337 ) on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:56AM (#65960914)
I care about the guy running the country.