Mr Gates said that was not true.<\/p>\n
“Jeffrey wrote an email to himself, that email was never sent,” he told Nine.<\/p>\n
“The\u00a0email is, you know, false.<\/p>\n
“So I\u00a0don’t know what his thinking was\u00a0there.<\/p>\n
“It just reminds me, you know,\u00a0every minute I spent with\u00a0regret and I, you know, apologise\u00a0that I did that.”<\/p>\n
If you or anyone you know needs help:1800 Respect National Helpline<\/a>: 1800 737 732Men’s Referral Service<\/a>: 1300 766 491Lifeline<\/a> (24-hour crisis line): 13 11 14Full Stop Australia<\/a>: 1800 385 578Bravehearts<\/a>: counselling and support for survivors of child sexual abuse: 1800\u00a0272\u00a0831<\/p>\n When he was asked about his relationship with the late sex offender, he said, “I regret every minute I spent with him”.<\/p>\n “It’s factually true that I was only at dinners. You know, I never went to the island,” he said.<\/p>\n “I never met any women. And so, you know, the more that comes out, the more clear it will be that although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behaviour.”<\/p>\n The response comes after his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, called on him to answer questions about the claims<\/a> in the email, which appears among the roughly 3 million pages released by the US Justice Department last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n Being named or pictured in the files does not imply wrongdoing or criminal activity.<\/p>\n Loading…<\/p>\n “Whatever questions remain there \u2014 I can’t even begin to know all of it \u2014 those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband,” she said in an earlier interview with NPR’s Wild Card podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n “They need to answer to those things, not me.”<\/p>\n Ms French Gates said she had felt “unbelievable sadness” when she learned of the allegations in the documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n The ABC is in the process of reviewing the files.<\/p>\n Epstein said in the email<\/a> he was “dismayed” that Mr Gates was ending their friendship over the “accident”.<\/p>\n “TO add insult to injury you them implore me to please delete the emails mails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis,” the email with typos reads.<\/p>\n A picture of Bill Gates with an unknown woman was released on December 18, 2025. (Supplied: House Oversight Committee Democrats)<\/p>\n In another email<\/a> sent the same year, Epstein accused Mr Gates of involving him in what he called “morally inappropriate” and “ethically unsound” activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n “From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall fro bridge tournamnts [sic],” the email reads.<\/p>\n As a result, Epstein wrote he had decided to resign from a role he had with the Gates Foundation and BG3, a think tank founded by Bill Gates, because he got “caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill”.\u00a0<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Mr Gates had earlier rejected the claims as “absolutely absurd and completely false”.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame,” they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘I had to leave my marriage’ Melinda French Gates\u00a0and Bill Gates were married for 27 years. (Reuters: Kamil Zihnioglu)<\/p>\n Melinda and Bill Gates were married for 27 years before they divorced in 2021<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ms French Gates later said her ex-husband had an affair with a Microsoft staffer in 2019 \u2014 a claim Mr Gates confirmed in a statement to The New York Times<\/a> in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although the pair initially pledged to continue their philanthropic work together, Ms French Gates resigned from the Gates Foundation in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cd699dc813f72a847b4ccc54125dacb8.jpeg\")
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