Melinda Gates Reveals Why She Divorced Bill, and It Hints at What Many Suspected – Opinion

When Bill and Melinda Gates split, it was a surprise to most. Soon afterward there were rumors about why. While some believed it was a clever way to avoid financial trouble, others believed that it had to do with unfaithfulness on Bill’s part.

Some suspected that the unfaithfulness was helped along by the late lefty financier Jeffrey Epstein and that Melinda wasn’t going to go down with Bill’s ship as information began to come out after Epstein’s death. Now we have some confirmation that it was Epstein’s relationship that led to Melinda abandoning Bill.

According to the New York Post, Melinda sat down for an interview with Gale King on “CBS Mornings” where she confessed that one of the reasons she left the multi-billionaire tech legend was due to his consistent unfaithfulness and his dealings with Epstein:

“I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him,” French Gates shared with King before adding that she met the late perv “exactly one time” because she “wanted to see who this man was.”

“I regretted it the second I walked in the door,” said French Gates, 57. “He was abhorrent. He was an evil personified. My heart breaks for these women.”

Gates had previously called the meetings a “mistake” when questions about them by PBS’s Judy Woodruff in an interview last September. Gates was unable to answer questions and confessed that regretting the numerous meetings he held with the sex-trafficker is something he regretted.

“It was reported that you continued to meet with him over several years, and that — in other words, a number of meetings,” Woodruff said “What did you do when you found out about his background?”

“Well, I have said I regretted having those dinners. And there’s nothing, absolutely nothing new on that,” Gates replied.

Gates was asked about any lessons he learned from the incident and he replied with an odd response that Epstein had died so he needed to be cautious.

“Well, he’s dead,” Gates said. “So, in general, you always have to be careful.”

To be clear, this does not confirm that Gates took part in any enjoyment from Epstein’s sex trafficking, though it does make one heavily suspect wrongdoing of some type occurred. Melinda felt it was necessary to mention it during her interview to King. She suggested that perhaps she was disgusted enough not to divorce from Epstein.

Melinda mentioned that his ex-husband was involved in many extramarital affairs. When asked if he had multiple affairs, Melinda responded with “Those are questions Bill needs to answer.”

Epstein is still under investigation. It wouldn’t be surprising to learn that many powerful people were involved in it. It remains to be determined if Gates is one of them.