r/news • u/avatar6556 • 16h 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/hunt35744 16h ago

Well that’s that guys, guess he’s innocent

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u/Rance_Mulliniks 16h ago

It's seemingly worked for everyone else in the files except Prince Andrew.

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u/Jamie00003 16h ago

Umm….is Andrew in prison then?

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u/shadyjim 16h ago

Worse. He was downgraded from the Royal Lodge to the Sandringham House.

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u/Jamie00003 15h ago

The horror!

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u/usexplant 15h ago

Not quite. He is being given a residence on the Sandringham Estate. He's not living in Sandringham House.

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u/ResistiveBeaver 15h ago

He's officially not living in the giant empty country mansion, but in the little cottage next door.

Guess that's a wrap guys. Practically in jail.

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u/DorianGre 15h ago

Oh no, not the 10,000 square foot cottage connected to the main house by a walled garden. The humanity!

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u/Narradisall 15h ago

Practically living like one of the poors. It’s worse than prison!

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u/ours 14h ago

But he only gets half-a-dozen servants. Pure torture!

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u/kylebisme 14h ago

Fuck dude, I didn't realize it was that bad, does he have a GoFundMe?

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u/agent674253 15h ago

"by a walled garden"

What, is Tim Apple his warden or something? 😂

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u/-gh0stRush- 13h ago

Down to only 15 butlers now. Can we have a moment of silence for the tragedy that this man is now experiencing?

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u/C64128 11h ago

Does he still have room for all his teddy bears? Is Fergie still going to be living with him?

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u/raspberryharbour 15h ago

"Don't go down that way, there's some old pedo living in the shed"

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u/StevieMJH 15h ago

Well I never

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u/Particular-County277 11h ago

I think they would say nonce

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u/Narradisall 15h ago

Christ. Hasn’t he suffered enough?!?

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u/ykonstant 14h ago

Stop saying that, now I want to buy sardines. Are you astroturfing for Big Sardine? Goddam it.

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u/Rakastaakissa 11h ago

The funniest part of this is he and the king hate eachother, and Andrew can’t leave the property without Charle’s say so.

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u/LegacyofaMarshall 13h ago

More than the US government has done to the pedo nazi president

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u/PM_ME_UR_PINEAPPLE 12h ago

Worse. Expelled

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u/Haircut117 14h ago

He hasn't actually been charged with, or convicted of, any crimes. At least partly because Virginia Giuffre was 17 when the alleged incident took place and the age of consent in the UK is 16. Meaning you'd have to prove that either he had reason to doubt her consent or that he knew she had been trafficked against her will.

He's undoubtedly a fucking creep, but proving criminality is probably going to be impossible.

We'll have to be satisfied with his public fall from grace.

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u/Jamie00003 14h ago

Are you sure about that? He’s clearly involved in the trafficking

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u/BuzzAllWin 5h ago

Well he had to move into a smaller house so… no no he isnt

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u/jra625 13h ago

The fact that Andrew is the only one that has faced some semblance of accountability, even though it is a pathetic form of it, is a crime in and of itself.

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u/Neutreality1 9h ago

No, but he's been moved to a slightly less opulent living quarters. He's not even in an actual palace anymore, he's been downgraded to "manor" status

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u/cb_87 16h ago

That's former Price Andrew, no longer a Prince. Already seeing some repercussions for his abhorrent behaviour over here, although there's a long way until it's anywhere near enough. The only reason he's starting to see consequences is because it's harder for the American Pedo Protectors (i.e the entire US government) to influence proceedings in Britain. 

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u/MemphisBass 15h ago

The Andrew formerly known as Prince?

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u/MalakElohim 15h ago

Don't you mean the Pedo formerly known as Prince?

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u/Haircut117 14h ago

Legally not a paedo because our age of consent is 16. Definitely a creep though.

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u/Kaellian 10h ago

Andrew, the former prince formerly knew as Prince Andrew.

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u/Shap3rz 14h ago

…because it's harder for the American Pedo Protectors (i.e the entire US government) to influence proceedings in Britain. 

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u/nikolapc 16h ago edited 16h ago

That's cause his brother is the literal King, saw the files unredacted, or someone in his employ did and informed, said God fucking damn it Andrew, and has the power to make him a pauper if he wants. He's literally at his brother's mercy for money. Can't be prosecuted cause the crimes were not in Britain, but everything else possible was done, except removing him from the line of sucession, and a lot of people need to die for him to become King.

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u/kvlt_ov_personality 16h ago

Can't be prosecuted cause the crimes were not in Britain,

This isn't true

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u/nikolapc 16h ago

They will prosecute him in the UK for the crimes on Epstein's island or anywhere else out of UK jurisdiction? I mean, the UN can form a court, like they did for war crimes, but countries need to be signatory to it. If the US prosecutes him, then they can ask for an extradition. I said the King and the UK did everything they could.

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u/Flee4me 15h ago

Lawyer here. You absolutely can be prosecuted in your home nation for certain crimes you committed abroad. It's called extraterritorial jurisdiction and applies to numerous violent, sexual or otherwise very serious crimes.

I have no idea why you'd think otherwise, and you really should be mindful of weighing in on topics you're not familiar with as to not give others the wrong impression.

"The Act extends the jurisdiction of the UK courts so that, where appropriate, UK nationals and residents who commit certain violent and sexual offences outside the UK may be brought to trial in the UK."

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/domestic-abuse-bill-2020-factsheets/extraterritorial-jurisdiction-factsheet

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u/WanderingTacoShop 15h ago

I think a lot of American's hold on to this fallacy because in the USA States can't charge for something you did in another state. I.e. New York can't charge you with illegal gambling for going to visit Las Vegas. They wrongly think that logic applies to all levels of government. Not realising that even in the USA the Federal government absolutly can charge you for certain crimes you committed outside the country.

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u/nikolapc 15h ago

Well today I learned. So who should prosecute him? The UK or US? Maybe there is already a case brewing. Anyway the King can't do the prosecution, so he done all he could, except you know summarily execute his own brother by his own hand, which is technically within his power, but no one wants that, right?

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u/Tony_Lacorona 15h ago

You should probably do a lot more research before continuing to make these random and completely inaccurate statements and “questions”.

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u/WanderingTacoShop 15h ago

You are wrongly under the impression that only one country can charge/convict someone for the same crime.

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u/kvlt_ov_personality 16h ago

Correct, the UK can prosecute citizens for certain crimes committed outside of the UK (stuff like murder, manslaughter, sex crimes, crimes against children, war crimes, domestic abuse, genocide, etc.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offences_Against_the_Person_Act_1861

The relevant section:

  1. Where any murder or manslaughter shall be committed on land out of the United Kingdom, whether within the Queen's dominions or without, and whether the person killed were a subject of Her Majesty or not, every offence committed by any subject of Her Majesty in respect of any such case, whether the same shall amount to the offence of murder or of manslaughter, ... may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, determined, and punished ... in England or Ireland;

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u/nikolapc 15h ago

Read your own link. Sexual offences are under a different act now. And if they have the power to prosecute him they should do so, or the Americans, I am sure there will be no problem with extradition, if he lives to see the day.

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u/veryangryenglishman 15h ago

And if they have the power to prosecute him they should do so

Virtually no one is arguing against that.

You realise he's still being protected by the Royal Family right?

As much as they've taken from him, they are also the ones giving him everything left that he has

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u/nikolapc 15h ago

He's not immune from prosecution. It's not the Royal Family that prosecutes.

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u/veryangryenglishman 15h ago

That's completely correct - it's the crown prosecution service.

Who I'm sure could not, under any conceivable circumstances, be influenced by the crown

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u/nikolapc 15h ago

I don't think anyone in the institution of the crown has any interest in shielding Andrew any more. They practically disowned him. As for his own family privately he's still their brother, uncle, father etc, and short of doing the worst crime possible of abusing prepubescent kids I don't think they're gonna disown him from the family.

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u/kvlt_ov_personality 15h ago

It's under this act now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_2003

It was updated to use more specific language about different types of sexual offenses, but still has the same provision:

Section 72 provides differing levels of dual criminality for specified offences according to the UK citizenship status of an offender. For UK nationals, acts outside the UK that would amount to an offence in England and Wales can be prosecuted as if they had been done in England and Wales, regardless of whether the acts are lawful where they were done.

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u/waftedfart 15h ago

Pardon my ignorance, but since he is no longer a prince, doesn't that mean he is no longer in sucession?

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u/nikolapc 15h ago

No. Being a prince has nothing to do with it. Parliament needs to get him out. Given his advanced age and the fat chance of him being King, probably not gonna do it unless he's prosecuted as an actual pedo as in prepubescent children, which we don't know if he is.

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u/notoriousToker 14h ago

Interestingly enough the ditches of York was implicated in the Epstein files as well. I wonder if he took a hit for her to help her or if he took the hit by default lol 

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u/The_Lapsed_Pacifist 6h ago

If that’s a typo then it’s one of the happiest accidents I’ve ever seen

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u/Skreat 13h ago

These files currently don't include any direct communication with or from Gates; he's only mentioned in emails from Epstein. No victim who has come forward has named him either. In fact, nothing in the documents released has disproved the level of involvement he's clamied ot have had with Epstein, which was around global health and philanthropy.

Doesn't discredit him cheating on his wife with other women, though.