They assure that Melinda, when she was still the wife of Bill Gates, was clear that the time had come to break 25 years of marriage when she learned of her husband's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire and convicted pedophile awaiting more charges in a New York jail.
Having sex with a guy like that was too much, Melinda must have thought. Then Epstein hanged himself in a prison cell in lower Manhattan on August 10, 2019.
The coroner's report ruled out anything unusual in his death, but his death opened up all kinds of conspiracy theories. Among his friends was a list of very powerful people, such as a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton, or Donald Trump, at that time in the White House.
Although he took the secrets with him to the grave, The Wall Street Journal revealed on Monday that everything indicates that Epstein blackmailed Bill Gates.
According to this information, the financier and child molester discovered that the Microsoft co-founder had an extramarital affair with Maria Antonova, a Russian bridge player. Gates, now 67, met her around 2010, when she was in her 20s. Epstein would have used this information to threaten one of the richest men in the world.
After serving a brief prison term for his sex trafficking of girls, Epstein returned to his world like nothing happened. In 2013, she met Antonova and paid her to attend a software coding school. In 2017, she emailed Gates to get reimbursed for that expense.
The sum he claimed was insignificant for two men accustomed to managing large fortunes. The underlying issue was that the other person knew that he knew about his romance and, therefore, could reach other relevant people.
The affair illuminates the way Epstein worked. His email came at a time when the sender was in trouble and had failed to persuade Gates to participate in a multimillion-dollar charity fund that the financier and pedophile was trying to establish with JP Morgan Chase, another of the entities under fire for his relations with Epstein. A few days ago, Deutsch Bank agreed to pay 75 million to out-of-court close a case in which this entity allegedly helped the sexual abuser in his sexual exploitation of girls.
“Bill Gates met with Epstein for philanthropic purposes only. After failing to reach an agreement with Gates, Epstein unsuccessfully attempted to take advantage of a past relationship to threaten him," a spokeswoman for the IT businessman said in a statement.
Melinda had a lot of eye.
