Bill Gates has pulled out of a keynote address at the AI Impact Summit in India as he continues to face questions over his relationship with the deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Gates Foundation said in a statement: “After careful consideration and to ensure the focus remains on the AI summit’s key priorities, Mr Gates will not be delivering his keynote address..”.
The move came less than 48 hours after the Gates Foundation had insisted: “Bill Gates is attending the AI Impact Summit.
Gates has said he “regrets” ever knowing Epstein after allegations that he hid a sexually transmitted disease from his then-wife after contact with “Russian girls” surfaced in the latest release of the Epstein files.
“Every minute I spent with him, I regret,” Gates, 70, told Australian news outlet 9News earlier this month.
Melinda French Gates, to whom Gates was married until 2021, described how the recent release of Epstein files brought back “memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage”.
“Whatever questions remain there of what – I can’t even begin to know all of it – those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband,” French Gates told NPR. »