Melinda Franz Gates on Thursday criticized her ex-husband Bill Gates, one of the richest people in the world, for his past relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was being prosecuted for a string of sexually explicit crimes. inside his cell in prison in 2019.
In her first televised interview since announcing their divorce in May, Franz Gates, who remains co-chair with her ex-husband, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, admitted that she had met herself – but only once – with the multimillionaire broker.
Asked by CBS reporter Gale King why she broke up with Bill Gates, Melinda Franz Gates said “many things”, adding that she “did not like” the fact that she was “meeting Jeffrey Epstein”. .
At the time, “I told him clearly,” added the 57-year-old businesswoman and philanthropist, whose fortune is estimated by Forbes magazine at $ 6 billion.
Without specifying when she had met Jeffrey Epstein, she said she “regretted it the moment she walked in the door.”
“He was disgusting, he was badly personified. I had nightmares later. “I was heartbroken by this news,” Franz Gates told CBS.
Jeffrey Epstein, who was hanged in a Manhattan jail in August 2019, sexually abused minors and his network of relationships and kisses extended from former US Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton to Bill Clinton. French model agent Jean-Luc Brinell, who was found dead in his cell in a Paris prison two weeks ago.
In August, when their divorce was finalized, Bill Gates, 66, with a fortune estimated at $ 129 billion by Forbes, had admitted to CNN that he had made the “huge mistake of spending time” with Jeffrey E. mainly to raise money for his charity, he assured.
Following the announcement of the divorce, after 27 years of marriage, Bill Gates’s reputation has been tarnished due to various revelations about extramarital affairs and inappropriate behavior towards women who worked at Microsoft.
The Wall Street Journal revealed that his definitive departure in March 2020 from the IT giant he founded in 1975 was in fact due to an “inappropriate” relationship with an employee of the company in 2000. The financial newspaper also reported that members The board of directors of Microsoft was angry with Mr. Gates’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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