Jeffrey Epstein allegedly advised Bill Gates on the best way to end his marriage with Melinda Gates during a series of meetings at the sex-offender’s mansion.
A source told The Daily Beast that Bill Gates and Jefferey Epstein discussed the business guru’s ‘Toxic’ marriage at Epstein’s $77 million New York townhouse.
The friendship between Gates and Epstein began in 2011, three years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
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Melinda was ‘furious’ at Bill’s relationship with Epstein after the couple visited the predator’s Upper East Side townhouse in September 2013.
The meeting proved a turning point in Bill’s relationship with Epstein, after Melinda expressed how uncomfortable she was with the sex offender and said she wanted nothing to do with him, the sources said.
Melinda Gates was so upset by the friendship that she started speaking to a divorce lawyer after the pair’s close ties were first reported by the New York Times in October 2019.
After their first meeting, Gates sent an email to colleagues saying of Epstein: ‘His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me.’
When the friendship was first revealed in 2019, Gates told the Wall Street Journal: ‘I didn’t have any business relationship or friendship with him’.
After further revelations came in the New York Times in October 2019, a spokeswoman said he ‘regrets ever meeting with Epstein and recognizes it was an error in judgment to do so.’
Epstein died in August 2019 in the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, while awaiting trial for child sex trafficking charges.