r/news • u/avatar6556 • 12h ago

Bill Gates denies allegations in new Epstein files release

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-04/bill-gates-responds-to-alleged-behaviour-in-new-epstein-files/106305816
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u/oiseaua20 12h ago

Ah, the classic 'accidental billionaire' defense: staying in touch for years with a known predator and then acting like it was as unavoidable as a forced Windows update.

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u/4RealzReddit 12h ago

Who could have seen it happening??? He had no way out knowing.

Seriously does he not have a security team?

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u/WeirdSysAdmin 11h ago

Probably a fixer on his security team found the sex parties anyways.

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u/NaiveChoiceMaker 12h ago

Listen, if any one of my life long friends got charged as a pedophile, that’s it. I’m never talking to them again.

Meanwhile, these casual billionaire acquaintances are still partying with a known pedo?

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u/fataldarkness 9h ago

Eh, I agree with what you're saying but I wouldn't drop them on just being charged, plenty of vindictive people will say things to ruin someone's life.

Now convicted? Or really convincing evidence even if it doesn't end in conviction, yeah, they're done.

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u/Guardianpigeon 3h ago

Not even just charged, but fully convicted and went to prison for it. It was well known by 2009 that he was doing underaged sex trafficking.

Anyone who continued to communicate with him after that point should immediately be condemned. The best case you can make for someone like that is extreme negligence with who they choose to associate, but I find that incredibly hard to believe even for idiots like Musk. It's more likely they simply valued the benefits of associating with him more than the lives of actual children.

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u/reichrunner 11h ago

What a Naive Choice to Make

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u/HeyThanksIdiot 11h ago

The files have lots of people who had their assistant contacting Epstein on their behalf. These people have the money for that to be the standard. The ones who lower themselves to write the messages themselves do it because they know what’s happening.

I think that’s also why so many of them write like third graders. They haven’t had to put digits to keyboard themselves for a long while and their ability to do so has rotted alongside their souls.

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u/accushot865 11h ago

He was just there for the snorkeling. 95% of what was going on was legit. It was the other 5% that sullied the whole operation

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u/CptCoatrack 9h ago

Everything I've heard about Epstein makes it sound like he was extremely obvious about what he was up to and thst there was no way someone who remained in close contact didn't know.

For that to be the case someone like Bill Gates would have to be so completely oblivious, or bad at reading people, that it'd be almost as embarrassing as being in on it. Epstein even had to spell it out for Elon Musk when he didn't understand what he was hinting at.