Had to leave my marriage: Melinda Gates on Epstein files' STD claim against ex
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Melinda French Gates has responded to the latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files that claimed her former husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates caught STD after having sex with Russian girls and then tried to secretly give her medication for the disease.
Melinda Gates has responded to the latest revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files, which claimed that her ex-husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates secretly attempted to give her medication after catching sexually transmitted disease from Russian girls. During a podcast interview with NPR, she suggested that Bill Gates's link to the sex offender might have been the reason behind the end of their 27 years of marriage.
"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 said, adding that her ex-husband and others involved in the Epstein files matter must answer for their behaviour alleged in the fresh batch of documents.
"They need to answer to those things, not me," the 61-year-old stressed.
She also said that the revelations had caused her "unbelievable sadness". "Sad. Just unbelievable sadness. Unbelievable sadness...It's just sadness. I left my marriage. I had to leave my marriage. I wanted to leave my marriage. I felt I needed to eventually leave the foundation. So it's just sad. That's the truth," Melinda Gates said during the podcast.
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In a post on X, Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, said, "I've heard that the remaining members of Epstein's network have devised a conspiracy to create an incident similar to 9/11 and blame Iran for it."