Billionaire and Microsoft Founder Bill Gates admitted that he regretted ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein, who turned out to be a child sexual predator. What is their relationship like? How did Bill Gates know Epstein?
The introduction between Gates and Epstein does raise a lot of question marks. This is also one of the problems with his marriage with Melinda French which eventually sank.
In short, Gates knew Jeffrey Epstein from the protégé of the child predator. It is a woman named Melanie S Walker.
Walker is a scientist and neurosurgeon who Epstein appoints as 'Science Advisor' -- Walker accepts because he feels indebted. But according to reliable sources, their relationship is believed to remain professional.
Quoting the Rolling Stones, in the early 2000s, Walker, who was at an event in Seattle, finally met Bill Gates. According to eyewitnesses, Walker along with other Microsoft executives namely Sinofsky.
Then, in 2006, Walker worked for the Gates Foundation. It was at this time that Bill Gates began to often hear the name Jeffrey Epstein. Apart from Walker, there were also those who introduced Epstein, namely physicist Boris Nikolic and scientist Nathan Myhrvold.
In 2010 Gates announced the Giving Pledge, a commitment by the world's richest individuals and families to give away the majority of their wealth. Since several people at the Gates Foundation had the impression from Epstein that he was a billionaire, they considered Epstein a potential contributor to the Giving Pledge.
Gates and Epstein work together on a global health fund. Everything was going well until, Epstein asked the commission of the donations he had helped facilitate from wealthy people. Gates and his lawyers saw that there were bad signals from Epstein's figure and this is what is suspected to be the beginning of Bill Gates cutting his relationship with Epstein.
However, Epstein was apparently not that easy to get rid of. Epstein often attends elite philanthropic meetings, even though he was not invited.
If inferred from these sources, the claim that Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein only talk about work is most likely true. However, only Gates and Epstein know the true truth.