(LifeSite) Microsoft co-founder and left-wing financier Bill Gates faced a new round of questions this week regarding his relationship with deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, appearing visibly uncomfortable revisiting the subject.
Epstein killed himself in his cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in August 2019 while being held on charges of trafficking underaged girls to be raped by himself and wealthy associates.
The case has long been a source of concern due to the mysteries surrounding the billionaire financier’s private Caribbean retreat (dubbed “Pedophile Island” by locals), as well as to the botched prosecution and lax punishment for his previous crimes, but mostly for the belief that it had the potential to implicate many prominent figures around the world.
Among the elites known to have associated with Epstein is Gates, whose ex-wife Melinda says “made it very clear” to him that she disapproved of his meetings with the predator, whom she says she recognized as “evil personified” after meeting him just once. The two men had a number of meetings over the years, with Gates traveling on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” private plane on at least one occasion.
During an interview Monday on Australia’s ABC 7.30, host Sarah Ferguson asked Gates, “Do you regret the relationship that you maintained with him against Melinda’s advice and wishes?”
The climate and population activist first attempted to downplay the matter as going “way back in time” before answering that “I will say for the over a 100th time, yeah, I shouldn’t have had dinners with him.”
Ferguson noted that “Epstein had a way of sexually compromising” people, asking if “that [was] what Melinda was warning you about?” Gates denied it: “No, I had dinner with him and that’s all.”
“There never was any relationship of any kind,” he insisted.
