Gates' Epstein Affairs: Tech World's Judgment Questioned

0:00This is Cory with the story, keeping you tapped into pop culture. You're listening to Entertainment and celebrity news today. Bill Gates recently admitted to two extramarital affairs during his marriage to Melinda, one with a Russian bridge player and another with a Russian, nuclear physicist. This confession came up while discussing his past meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in 2019. Gates called spending time with Epstein a huge mistake, especially now that more details about Epstein's crimes have surfaced in millions of released documents. E-mails from Epstein suggest Gates caught a sexually transmitted infection after encounters with Russian women and that Epstein advised secretly giving. Antibiotics to Melinda. Epstein also allegedly tried to blackmail Gates over an affair with a younger woman named Mila Antonova, demanding millions for a fund in exchange for silence. Other tech leaders like Google co-founder Sergei Brin, Peter Teal and Reid Hoffman

1:00appear in the files but have denied any wrongdoing. Melinda Gates reportedly found the Epstein document references to her ex-husband painful, amid ongoing fallout from their divorce. Private investigator Ed Opperman, who's tracked the Epstein case for years, points out how some successful tech figures got drawn into Epstein's world, despite their public images. Experts like Psychotherapist Gilda Carl describe a pattern among these high achievers, sky high intelligence, but low emotional awareness, leaving. Them vulnerable to poor choices and personal matters. Even late physicist Stephen Hawking shows up in a photo from Epstein related events, though his estate says it was just caretakers at a science, conference. As more Epstein files come to light, these revelations continue to spot like connections between powerful names in tech and the financiers' dark, dealings, raising questions about judgment behind the success.