Affaire Epstein : Bill Gates dit "regretter chaque minute" passée avec le criminel sexuel
American billionaire Bill Gates said in an interview broadcast Wednesday that he "regrets every minute" spent with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but insists he has nothing to reproach himself for, while his ex-wife Melinda French Gates believes he should explain the relationship.
"I regret it and I apologize," he said. Bill Gates stated that he only met Jeffrey Epstein at dinners but never visited his island nor "met any women" through him. "The more information comes out, the more it will become clear that while that period was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that type of behavior," he added.
"This letter was fake."
A draft email from Jeffrey Epstein, released on January 30 by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a large file of documents from the Epstein case, alludes to Bill Gates' extramarital affairs. The Microsoft co-founder's 2021 divorce was partly motivated by his relationship with the convicted sex offender, who died in prison in 2019. In this message, which does not appear to have been sent, Jeffrey Epstein boasted about helping "Bill" obtain medication to "treat the aftereffects of having sex with Russian girls."
When questioned by NPR about the latest revelations surrounding the Epstein affair, Melinda French Gates asserted on Tuesday that it was up to Bill Gates and others to explain themselves. "These questions are for those people, and even for my ex-husband; they are the ones who should answer them, not me," she said. "I'm so glad I'm out of all that mess," she added, confirming the role played by the past relationship between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein in her divorce.
Bill Gates denied the allegations contained in the draft email in an interview with Australian news channel 9News, as the Gates Foundation had already done last week, denouncing them as "absolutely absurd accusations from a notorious liar." "That email was never sent and it was fake, so I don't know what he thought he was doing with it," the billionaire stated. The "more than three million pages" of documents released on January 30 do not contain any new evidence that could lead to further legal action, the U.S. Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, had warned from the outset.
The mere mention of a person's name in the Epstein file does not imply any wrongdoing on the part of that person. However, these documents at the very least demonstrate links between the convicted sex offender or his associates and certain individuals who have often minimized, or even denied, the existence of such relationships.
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