Bill Gates planned to give his wife antibiotics without her knowledge fearing he had caught a sexually transmitted infection from “Russian girls”, Jeffrey Epstein claimed in an email that was released by the US Department of Justice on Friday.
Epstein, the late paedophile financier, alleged that the Microsoft billionaire had asked him to procure the medication in what appeared to be draft emails he sent to himself, addressed to “Bill”, on July 18, 2013.
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A spokesperson for Gates said: “These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false.”
Melinda French Gates, the tycoon’s now ex-wife, was contacted for comment.
Bill Gates and an unidentified woman in a photograph that was part of the Epstein files HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE DEMOCRATS/REUTERS.
The emails were included among three million newly released documents from the criminal investigations into Epstein, who died in custody in 2019. »