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Bill Gates addressed his transportation to convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein and “took work for his actions” during a municipality hallway gathering of his nonprofit Gates Foundation connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026), the nonprofit said.
“Bill spoke candidly, addressing respective questions successful detail,” a Gates Foundation spokesperson said successful a statement.
Mr. Gates appears aggregate times successful the Justice Department's merchandise of documents connected to its probe of the precocious financier. The Justice Department's files see email correspondence betwixt Mr. Gates and Epstein astir philanthropic projects, calendar entries documenting dates they got together, and photos of Mr. Gates astatine events the 2 men attended.
Mr. Gates has not been accused of immoderate wrongdoing successful transportation with Epstein and denies immoderate cognition of Epstein's crimes. Mr. Gates has said helium had met with Epstein to sermon philanthropy and believed helium could assistance Mr. Gates rise wealth for issues similar planetary health. “Every infinitesimal that I spent with him I regret, and I apologise that I did that,” Gates told Australia's 9News earlier this month.
Photos and mentions of Mr. Gates successful the Epstein files person attracted accrued attraction since the Justice Department released millions of documents past month. Last week, Mr. Gates pulled retired of delivering the keynote code astatine the India AI Impact Summit successful New Delhi “to guarantee the absorption remains connected the AI Summit's cardinal priorities.”
Melinda French Gates, who exited the Gates Foundation successful 2024 to absorption connected her philanthropy done Pivotal Ventures, said her ex-husband indispensable “answer to those things” erstwhile asked astir his ties to Epstein. Both Mr. Gates and French Gates person said that his narration with Epstein created problems successful their marriage.
