Melinda French Gates is reacting to the newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein that mention her ex-husband, Bill Gates.
Last week, documents that showed draft emails Epstein wrote to himself went public, where he claimed the Microsoft co-founder had contracted an STI from “Russian girls.”
In the draft dated back in 2013, Epstein writes, “To add insult to the injury you then subsequently with tears in your eyes, implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis.”
During an interview on NPR’s “Wild Card podcast,” Melinda discussed her reaction to the emails detailing Epstein’s ties to her ex-husband.
“I think we’re having a reckoning as a society, right? No girl, no girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with all of the various people around him,” the philanthropist said. “It’s beyond heartbreaking, right? I remember being those ages those girls were, I remember my daughters being those ages.”
“So for me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up, right, because [it] brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage,” she admitted. “But I have moved on from that.”
She added that any additional unanswered questions aren’t hers to address, but for her ex-husband to answer.
“I am so happy to be away from all the muck that was there,” she added.
Meanwhile, the tech billionaire dismissed Epstein’s emails as “absolutely absurd and completely false.”
“The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame,” Bill’s rep said in a statement to People.
While the Microsoft founder has admitted to his past encounters with Epstein, he insists that they were only to get help for his charity.
Following their divorce in 2021, Melinda published her memoir, “The Next Day,” where she hinted at Bill’s ties to Epstein.
The Pivotal Ventures founder says she has moved forward with her life since then and can only hope that all the victims receive “justice.”
“At least for me, I’ve been able to move on in life and I hope there’s some justice for those now-women, right? We see them standing up in front of microphones in D.C. What they went through is just unimaginable.”
