Epstein claimed that Gates had contracted a sexually transmitted disease and slipped Melinda antibiotics.

On Friday, the US Department of Justice released another batch of documents from the investigation into the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which include as yet unconfirmed allegations concerning Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

In emails from 2013, Epstein claimed that Gates allegedly had a sexually transmitted disease after "contact with Russian girls" and asked him for antibiotics to secretly give to his wife Melinda. Gates' spokeswoman called these allegations "completely false and absurd."

Epstein apparently tried to formulate these claims in a draft statement on behalf of Gates' longtime scientific advisor Boris Nikolic, in which he announced his intention to leave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

According to Gates' representatives, the documents do not prove any facts, but rather Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates. Bill Gates has previously admitted that his meetings with Epstein were a mistake, but has repeatedly emphasized that their contacts were exclusively related to philanthropy.

In a 2022 interview about her ex-husband, Melinda Gates said, "I didn't like that he was meeting with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him." At the same time, she admitted that she had also met Epstein once because she "wanted to see who he was." She added that "he was disgusting, he was the embodiment of evil."

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