During Melinda Gates‘ interview with CBS This Morning on March 3, she hinted that her, Bill Gates‘, friendship with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the many reasons the two divorced in 2021. “It was not one thing [that led to the divorce],” Melinda explained. “It was many things.
I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him.” Bill began meeting with Jeffrey in 2011, three years after the financier was convicted on sex crimes, according to the New York Times.
In July 2019, he was arrested for sex trafficking minors, although the criminal charges were dismissed after Epstein died by suicide in jail the next month.
Melinda admitted to meeting Jeffrey herself once, and said she was disgusted by him. “I wanted to see who this man was,” she explained, without specifying when the meeting happened. “I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door.
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