Bill Gates is finally coming clean about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Ahead of his new book title “Source Code: My Beginnings,” that is set to release on February 4, Gates opened up to the Wall Street Journal in a lenthy interview detailing his relationship with the pedophile.
Now Gates is calling himself “foolish” and saying that spending any time with Epstein was a “huge mistake.”
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“In retrospect, I was foolish to spend any time with him,” Gates said of Epstein.
“I think I was quite stupid. I thought it would help me with global health philanthropy. In fact, it failed to do that. It was just a huge mistake.”
Epstein, a notorious predator, pleaded guilty to procuring underaged girls in 2008, and began to pursue a relationship with Gates in 2010 to help sanitize his own marred image at the time, according to a New York Post report.
Gates and Epstein had met a handful of times before Epstein’s death in 2019, when Epstein hanged himself in a jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Gates said during the interview the situation with Epstein made him more wary of his connections.
Gates’ ex-wife, Melinda Gates, has said she was wary of his interactions with Epstein and met him personally on one occasion, according to reports.
She told Gayle King in an interview in 2021 that Epstein was “evil personified.”