Let’s be honest, we all knew billionaires were weird.
But the latest batch of files from the late, unlamented Jeffrey Epstein is giving us a level of “yikes” that even a Windows 95 crash couldn’t match.
According to a report by NPR, Melinda French Gates is finally opening up about the “unbelievable sadness” of seeing her ex-husband’s name dragged through the Epstein muck.
It turns out, being married to one of the world’s richest men doesn’t protect you from the kind of drama that sounds like a discarded script from a trashy soap opera.
Antibiotics and “Russian Girls”
The Department of Justice has unleashed over three million pages under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and the tea is piping hot.
According to a 2013 email drafted by Epstein, the Microsoft co-founder allegedly “begged” to erase messages about a certain sexually transmitted souvenir.
The draft claims Gates contracted an STI after “sex with Russian girls” and—here is the kicker—wanted antibiotics he could “surreptitiously” give to Melinda without her knowing.
I guess when you’re a billionaire, “honesty is the best policy” is a feature that didn’t make it into the final build.
Gates, now 70, has “vehemently denied” the claims, but the draft even included a “graphic description of his penis.”
That is one “attachment” nobody ever wanted to download.
Melinda is Done with the Muck
In her interview with NPR’s Rachel Martin, French Gates made it clear she has zero interest in being Bill’s PR cleanup crew.
“I left my marriage, I had to leave my marriage, I wanted to leave my marriage,” she told the Wild Card podcast.
She isn’t here to answer for the shady company her ex kept while she was busy actually trying to save the world.
French Gates noted that questions about these files “are for those people and for even my ex-husband, they need to answer to those things, not me.”
She’s “so happy to be away from all the muck,” and frankly, who can blame her?
She previously described Epstein as “abhorrent” and “evil personified” after meeting him once.
It seems Melinda has a much better “virus protection” system than her ex-husband ever did.
The Real Cost of the “Boys’ Club
Melinda told NPR that the alleged abuse was “beyond heartbreaking” and “no girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in.”
She expressed hope for “some justice” for the women who have testified in Washington.
“What they went through is just unimaginable,” she added, according to the NPR report.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Bill Gates told the press these claims are “absolutely absurd and completely false.”
They suggest Epstein was just throwing a tantrum because he couldn’t “entrap and defame” the tech mogul.
Whatever the truth is, it’s clear that the “billionaire boys’ club” is a lot more diseased than they’d like us to think.
