A newly released batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents has reignited scrutiny around Bill Gates, prompting a sharp and unusually forceful denial from the Microsoft co-founder’s camp.
According to the Daily Mail, the documents, released by the Department of Justice on Friday, include emails in which Epstein made shocking and graphic allegations about Gates.
Those claims were immediately rejected by Gates through a spokesperson, who underscored the billionaire’s anger over the renewed attention.
“These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false,” the spokesperson told the Daily Mail.
“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.”
The disputed allegations appear in emails Epstein sent to himself on July 18, 2013. The messages were among hundreds of thousands of Epstein-related records made public in the latest DOJ release.
The trove also includes multiple previously unseen, undated photographs showing Epstein and Gates together in various locations.
Gates has long acknowledged knowing Epstein but has repeatedly said he regrets the association. The financier, who died in a New York City jail in 2019, was a convicted sex offender awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges at the time of his death. Gates has consistently denied any wrongdoing.
Over the years, Gates has attempted to minimize the scope of his relationship with Epstein, stating that the two did not share a business relationship or friendship and that any interactions occurred in group settings. He has also denied attending Epstein’s parties or visiting his residences.
The most incendiary claims were outlined in an email that appears to be a draft letter written from the perspective of Gates’ former advisor, Boris Nikolic, around the time of Nikolic’s resignation from Gates’ charitable foundation.
The email accuses Gates of attempting to erase evidence of alleged misconduct, stating: “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.”
In the same message, Epstein wrote that he had been “dismayed beyond comprehension” by Gates’ decision to “disregard our friendship developed over the last 6 years.”
Another email from that morning, also written as if by Nikolic, offered a resignation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
“I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill…” the email reads.
It continues: “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 message further alleges: “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 doctor, but have no presriptions (sic) writing ability.”
Bill and Melinda Gates were married from 1994 until their divorce in 2021. Melinda Gates later cited Gates’ affairs and his relationship with Epstein as factors in the split, though she did not detail specific allegations.
Epstein died by suicide in August 2019, a month after his federal indictment. His associate Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking in 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Texas.
