The Justice Department recently released over 3 million pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, including emails from 2013 that Epstein wrote to himself.
These emails appear to be draft messages he was preparing for someone named Boris, who worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to potentially send to Bill Gates following some kind of dispute.
The emails contain several explosive claims about Bill Gates. One message with the subject line “bill” alleges that Gates requested medication for a sexually transmitted disease to secretly give to Melinda French Gates without her knowledge.
Another email claims Boris helped Gates obtain drugs and arranged secret meetings with Russian women and married women.
The emails provide no evidence to support these allegations. The to and from fields only list Epstein, and there’s no confirmation the messages were ever actually sent to anyone. The identity of Boris remains unclear.
A spokesperson for Bill Gates issued a categorical denial, calling the claims “absolutely absurd and completely false.” The statement characterized the documents as evidence of Epstein’s frustration at not having an ongoing relationship with Gates and his willingness to use entrapment and defamation tactics.
Gates and Epstein’s relationship has been a continuing problem for the billionaire philanthropist. Gates initially minimized their connection, but subsequent documents have indicated the two had more contact than he originally acknowledged.
Gates has maintained that he only met with Epstein for fundraising and philanthropic purposes, calling those meetings a “huge mistake.”
Melinda Gates has publicly stated that Bill’s relationship with Epstein contributed to her decision to divorce him. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2021 that she began consulting divorce lawyers in 2019, around the same time news stories about Bill’s meetings with Epstein became public. She confirmed in a 2022 CBS interview that his ties to Epstein factored into their separation.
Epstein died by suicide in 2019 while in federal custody awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
