Bill Gates has denied the rumors!
The U.S. Department of Justice released a new batch of files related to Epstein on January 30, which mentioned that on July 18, 2013, Epstein sent himself multiple emails that appeared to be his personal diary or notes. In these emails, he unilaterally claimed that Bill Gates had once had sexual relations with some "Russian girls," resulting in him contracting a sexually transmitted disease and needing to take antibiotics for treatment. Epstein further wrote that Gates wanted to secretly give the antibiotic medication to his wife Melinda to prevent her from knowing the truth.
All these descriptions are Epstein's own unilateral accounts, with no supporting evidence from third parties, such as real chat records, medical proof, emails from Gates himself, bank transfer records, or other direct evidence. When the U.S. Department of Justice released these documents, it clearly marked that these contents were "unverified allegations."
Bill Gates' spokesperson and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation immediately made a strong response. They clearly stated that these claims were "absurd and completely false." They further explained that after ending his relationship with Gates, Epstein was very angry and disappointed, so he deliberately fabricated these contents to defame Gates, retaliate, or cause further harm. This explanation is logically reasonable because everyone knows that since the mid-2010s, Bill Gates had already publicly distanced himself from Epstein and later admitted in interviews that meeting Epstein was a "big mistake."
The accusations against Bill Gates indeed have low credibility. Epstein himself was a convicted criminal and a habitual liar, and what he wrote naturally carried a high motivation for fabrication and revenge. In previously released Epstein files, there were also many similar sensational but unsubstantiated contents, many of which were intentionally exaggerated or based on hearsay.
This accusation quickly spread online and became very popular mainly because the Department of Justice released an enormous amount of files at once, totaling more than 3 million pages, including a large number of photos and videos. Media and social platforms, in order to attract traffic, naturally selected the most explosive and clickbait parts for amplification. The combination of "Bill Gates contracted a sexually transmitted disease, involved with Russian girls, and even tried to secretly give his wife medicine" has extremely strong transmission power, so it spread very quickly.
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