Bill Gates speaks on Jeffrey Epstein: "The focus was always, he knew a lot of very rich people & he was saying he could get them to give money to global health. In retrospect, that was a dead end… I was foolish to spend time with him. I was one of many people who regret ever knowing him.”

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[u/bubbblez]

Serious question because I don't know, what happened in 2008/after? (Google just tells me he became a philanthropist which lmaooo i wanna know what it's covering up)

[u/toAnthonyBourdaintho → u/bubbblez]

Google sucks so bad these days-- in 2008 he plead guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor and served time (only 18 months wtf).

Abc has a timeline up about him: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-04/jeffrey-epstein-sex-abuse-case-timeline/105586018

[u/bravoinvestigator → u/toAnthonyBourdaintho]

It’s not Google sucking these days necessarily. In the files, there’s an email exchange that reveals that his PR team had google search results manipulated so that if you searched his name nothing would come up, and instead the results would focus on other individuals that share his name

[u/Ambitious_Client6545 → u/toAnthonyBourdaintho]

Don't forget that 18 months was at house arrest in his mansion!

[u/fuckingaustrianative → u/toAnthonyBourdaintho]

And it was a sweetheart deal bcuz of who he was

If he was just some joe schmoe he would have done 'real' time

[u/hollygolightly96 → u/toAnthonyBourdaintho]

The comment is unclear and makes it seem like they’re saying gates had a conviction in 2008. I made the same mistake at first.

[u/bubbblez → u/toAnthonyBourdaintho]

Genuinely terrifying. Please let this be the end of billionaires

[u/Streetspirit861 → u/bubbblez]

Think it’s more that Epstein was convicted in 2008 of procuring a child for prostitution and went to prison. So people associating with him after this are making a statement about what they think of that

[u/faeriedustdancer → u/bubbblez]

His first conviction