Published 11 May 2021 at 09.31
Abroad. Bill Gates' wife Melinda began preparing for her divorce as early as 2019 when her husband's contacts with pedophile banker Jeffrey Epstein were discovered. It reports the Wall Street Journal.
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One week ago, the news came that Bill Gates is divorcing his wife Melinda, after 27 years of marriage.
However, the duo will continue to work with their controversial foundation Bill & amp ; Melinda Gates Foundation.
Melinda Gates can now look forward to becoming one of the world's richest women as her husband, according to Forbes, has an estimated fortune of $ 130.5 billion.
But the divorce did not come like a bolt from the blue. As early as October 2019, Melinda Gates hired a group of lawyers to discuss the possibility of divorcing her husband.
According to sources in the Wall Street Journal, Melinda said she was worried about Bill Gates' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who is believed to have arranged underage girls for powerful men and then blackmailed them, died in August 2019 under mysterious circumstances while in custody in New York on suspicion of trafficking.
In the autumn of 2019, the New York Times published an article in which it appeared that Bill Gates was one of the few people who started a relationship with the pedophile king after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes. Gates is said to have spent the night with Epstein in his New York mansion.
According to the Daily Beast, Melinda already in 2013 warned her husband about the risk of being associated with Jeffrey Epstein. According to the site, Bill Gates 'relationship with the pedophile became “a turning point” in the couple Gates' marriage.
A spokesman for Bill Gates tells the Wall Street Journal that Gates stands by the comment about Epstein that he gave to the New York Times 2019: “I met him. I had no business relationship or friendship with him.”
Gates states that he hung out with Epstein because he was told that this could be a good idea if you wanted to “raise money for global health “.
” All the meetings I had with him were meetings with men. I was never at any parties or anything like that, “Bill Gates continues.