Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said her ex-husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, being named in new files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein dredged up “painful times in my marriage”.
She told an NPR podcast she feels “unbelievable sadness” about the Epstein allegations and that the people named in the records, including her former husband, need to answer to it.
“I am so happy to be away from all the muck,” she said. The couple divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage.
Records released by the US justice department include an allegation by Epstein that Bill Gates caught a sexually transmitted disease. He has called the claim “absolutely absurd”.
Holy shit some of these comments are fucking gross and victim-blamey in here. Why the fuck is Melinda the target here any differently than the victims themselves who didn’t speak up until later?
I think we all know why none did, just as none of you would in all reality: fear, and who would actually listen without proof?
See the #MeToo movement, how that backfired for so many women, let alone trying to take down one of the richest people of all time. Also for those who paid attention, Melinda had long heavily hinted at this shit.
Yup. If she would have went to the press without evidence, she would not have been believed. Still today people here are very quick to call someone a conspiracy theorist, including probably most of the people in this thread. They would have been attacking her. Not a single doubt in my mind about that.
So at the same time as people say someone should speak up, they keep attacking people who does, unless their sources are accepted as evidence by official media sources.
I dont blame her for being quiet, not at all.
And yet…she still uses Gates in her name.
Still victim blaming. How do you decide what someone else chooses to be called? 27 years is a long time, and there are a lot of good reasons to hold onto a name even after the person you shared it with turns out to be bad for you. Does everyone who estranges from their father need to change their last name if that’s who they got it from?
Why the fuck is Melinda the target here any differently than the victims themselves who didn’t speak up until later?
She’s another billionaire who directly or indirectly benefitted from that circle
How did she benefit, apart from what I thought people around these parts would’ve been gleeful to hear that she “took from the rich,” and gave much of that money away?
It was a failed marriage; the more she learned, the more she was disgusted. She took the money and left. We don’t even fucking know if she isn’t partly a victim herself. Nevertheless she’s speaking up now, which she in no way had to.
Yet some here would paint her as Ghislaine Maxwell herself, what the fuck?
Oh look, another rich asshole who knew what was happening but didn’t tell us.
Fuck these people and fuck their families. We should be taking their wealth by force.
Can’t be a philanthropist and a billionaire at the same time, fucking media know this
Ok but if she knew about it and it’s why the divorce why didn’t she say shit, unless I’m missing something?
Their divorce process started when their youngest daughter turned 18, so it might be the usual “sticking to a toxic wasteland of a marriage for the children” delusion.
She may have had to sign an NDA for the divorce to go through.
Dunno why y’all are blaming her for shit. She wasn’t the one involved with Epstein.
For a lot of (if not most) people, knowing about the heinous shit happening and doing nothing about it (at minimum trying to go public) is an issue nearly as bad as actually participating.
And maybe people have forgotten how to use their critical thinking skills first before jumping on the blame bandwagon.
If you think she was clueless to what’s going on, then say it.
Take a stance.
I think you’re clueless about real life.
You must’ve been born yesterday.
Not blaming,and an NDA to cover illegal shit is enforceable?
I’m not from USA, I don’t know how NDAs work there?
Keep in mind, OP literally pulled the “NDA” thing out of his ass.
Her, dipshit.
Calm down girl
If you don’t specify pronouns there is no way for anyone to know your gender on an Internet forum, so your derogatory animosity comes across as particularly petty.
There are generic terms which can be used, ie: buddy.
No one thinks about that on an Internet forum and policing that seems incredibly petty. Especially when you do it by calling someone a dipshit.
Unless you go out of the way to tell people what pronouns you want, then don’t be upset when people pick one.
No an NDA can’t cover withholding information about a crime. Asking someone to not divulge information under an NDA pertaining to a crime, is in itself a crime/an unenforceable nda
If the NDA used generic language, ie: spouse is barred from sharing any private conversations or information shared within the marriage, it may be covered … but IANAL so …
How do you see that playing out?
Subject A says, “Ron told me he committed a crime”
Subject B says “I’m suing you for divulging information that should be covered by the NDA”
It would be admitting that the statement occurred. Thus now the entire NDA is void, and those court records can be used as testimony in a criminal investigation.
Do you actually think Billy Boy sat her down and confessed to fucking teenagers???
Jfc buddy. Use your brain. If anything he had to tell her he caught an STD so she would have to go have it taken care of. For most women that would be the last straw … marriage done.
America is covered with them. Iirc California is the only state to have banned them.
An NDA doesn’t prevent you from reporting crimes to the relevant authorities. This woman was very much part of the system. She deserves credit for getting out but she’s by no means an angel.
We don’t know if she had any information about crimes, or whether she went to the authorities ffs
Dunno why y’all are blaming her for shit. She wasn’t the one involved with Epstein.
She knew what was happening and didn’t tell us.
Don’t be a fool.
TIL you can sign NDAs for divorces
I believe that she divorced him after the Epstein thing first blew up and it was because of that.
she probably knew or at least highly suspected he was involved. his “charity initiative” always seemed disengenious.
Dude gave her an std and she still won’t tell the world everything she knows?! The fuck.
All I’m hearing is “she fucking knew what was going on and didn’t say shit”. IANAL, but does that equal an accessory or obstruction charge or what?
Bill probably had her tied up in court to say nothing or else she wouldnt get this or that(money) from his marriage.
Imagine being the lawyer who delivered that ultimatum to her.
Also, isn’t active concealment of a crime grounds for disbarment?
Also also, if “not getting a good settlement” is really what deterred her, she’s just as guilty in my eyes. I’d think “wow so my husband is an enthusiastic pedophile” is grounds for just getting the fuck out of the marriage by any means possible while signing as little as possible, going to the Feds, and then simultaneously opening a massive civil lawsuit against him for psychological damage and abuse because he’s a fucking pedophile.
Her tacitly helping to conceal this shit makes her an accessory to systematic pedophilic sexual abuse, at the very least, in my eyes.
Lawyers are scum
