Melinda Gates publicly distanced herself from her former husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, following the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents.
As Slay News previously reported, the latest Epstein Files include explosive allegations about Bill Gates’s conduct during their marriage.
Speaking Tuesday on NPR’s “Wild Card podcast,” the 61-year-old philanthropist said the newly released Epstein files were deeply disturbing and insisted that those named in the documents, including her ex-husband, must answer for what has come to light.
“I think we’re having a reckoning as a society, right?” Melinda said.
“No girl, no girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with all of the various people around him.
“It’s beyond heartbreaking.”
She added that the revelations hit close to home.
“I remember being those ages those girls were, I remember my daughters being those ages,” she said.
“So, for me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up, right?
“Because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage.”
Melinda then made clear she wants no part of the fallout surrounding the Epstein disclosures.
“I purposely pushed it away, and I moved on,” she said.
“I’m in a really unexpected, beautiful place in my life
“So whatever questions remain there of what, I don’t [and] can’t even begin to know all of it, those questions are for those people and even my ex-husband.
“They need to answer those questions, not me.”
“And I am so happy to be away from all the muck,” she added.
When asked how the allegations involving Bill Gates made her feel personally, Melinda responded bluntly.
“Sad,” she replied.
“Just unbelievable sadness.
“Unbelievable sadness.”
“I hope there’s some justice,” she added.
WATCH:
Her remarks come days after the Department of Justice released hundreds of thousands of additional Epstein-related documents, including emails containing disturbing allegations involving Gates.
One email appears to be a draft resignation letter written by Epstein from the perspective of Gates’s former top adviser, Boris Nikolic.
It accuses Gates of asking for antibiotics to conceal a sexually transmitted disease allegedly contracted from “russian girls.”
“TO add insult to the injury you them (sic) implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis,” the email states.
The DOJ release also included multiple previously unseen photographs of Gates and Epstein together at various locations.
Gates has long acknowledged that meeting with Epstein was a mistake, but has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
He has insisted that he had no business relationship or friendship with Epstein, claiming their interactions were limited and conducted in group settings.
Gates has also denied attending Epstein’s parties or visiting his residences.
Another email included in the release expresses Epstein’s anger over Gates ending their association.
“I have been dismayed beyond comprehension by your decision to disregard our friendship developed over the last 6 years,” Epstein wrote.
Additional correspondence, also appearing to be written by Nikolic, describes alleged involvement in Gates’s personal affairs.
“I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill…” the email states.
“In my role as his right hand man I have been asked and wrongly acquiesced into participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate, to the ethically unsound and have been repeatedly asked to do thing (sic) that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal…”
The email continues:
“From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trusts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall fro (sic) bridge touramnts (sic), as I am a medial (sic) doctor, but have no presriptions (sic) writing ability.”
A separate line in the document attempts to dismiss the claims, stating:
“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.”
Melinda and Bill Gates were married from 1994 until their divorce in 2021.
Melinda previously cited Gates’s affairs and his association with Epstein as factors in the split, though she did not publicly detail the allegations at the time.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Melinda began consulting divorce lawyers in 2019 after reports emerged about Gates’s repeated meetings with Epstein.
The reports contradicted Gates’s earlier public denials.
The newly released Epstein files have renewed scrutiny of Gates’s past statements and raised fresh questions about what senior figures in politics, finance, and technology knew, and when they knew it.
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