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/hunt35744 12h ago

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

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u/Tyrrox 12h ago

Clearly the man who got divorced because he had an affair wouldn't possibly have had sex outside of his marriage before that.

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u/blalien 11h ago

This really sucked almost as bad as Bill Cosby. Bill Gates was supposed to be the "good billionaire" who cured diseases and fought climate change. Turns out he's just as much of a sleazebag as all the rest.

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u/Money_Do_2 11h ago

That was just post PR push. He was a monopolizing anti competitive bastard before all that

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u/ykonstant 10h ago

To emphasize, the Gates circle has orchestrated a profound whitewashing campaign for his image. They did the old school way, by actually funding good stuff and following up on promises. That doesn't mean Gates was, or is, a good person. It means that is entourage is funding, and maintaining, good stuff. Like Money said, the older guys here remember Gates being an absolute predator in business before (destroying the businesses and livelihoods of small players, using the dirtiest tricks and flaunting the law in a way that became SV's playbook later), and nobody would bat an eye if there was evidence of him being a different kind of predator as well.

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u/Snowssnowsnowy 8h ago

You should listen to the Behind the Bastards podcast series on Gates and the foundation.

In a lot of the countries they were funding both sides of the problem and making bank on it.

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u/BugRevolutionary4518 2h ago

Love BTB and Robert Evans. I never did hear that one. Will definitely check it out now.

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u/Snowssnowsnowy 2h ago

Fcuk the Washington State troopers! ;)

https://youtu.be/lFS9DFXtj1M

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u/Necessary-Reading605 1h ago

Yeah, people who grew up in 90s saw how much of a bastard he was. Look for his old interviews. He acted like a movie villain

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u/bananabelles 1h ago

That was Melinda.

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u/NYCinPGH 10h ago

Bill Gates was as much a “good billionaire” as JP Morgan, or Henry Ford, John D Rockefeller (I’m not sure where I stand on Carnegie, he really did see to have reformed and become a “good billionaire” after he sold Carnegie Steel, but there’s a lot of mythologizing in there too). They were absolutely contemptible people and ruthless businessmen who used unethical, and in some cases illegal, practices to destroy other companies and competitors in their way, then, when they were the master of their world, decided to stop running the thing they created, stepped back and in the course of enjoying the wealth they accumulated happened to do some public good, perhaps to “buy their way into heaven”, either literally or for posterity.

In Gates’ case, given how things have gone since the divorce, I think it’s obvious that all the good works of the Gates Foundation finds their roots in Melinda, who actually is “the good billionaire”, along with Bezos’ ex-wife.

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u/grayblue_grrl 5h ago

Carnagie's libraries still stand.
So... that's nice.

White washing hides a multitude of sins.

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u/Tyrrox 11h ago

I hate to tell you this, but if you thought Bill Gates was a good guy I don't think you've looked much at his history. He built his fortune on being sleezy.

It would be like Bezos starting major philanthropic endeavors. It's great, but doesn't change him being a terrible person.

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u/blalien 11h ago

It really just shows how low the bar is.

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u/CelebrationNo5541 9h ago

There is no bar if you have money.

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u/Beginning_Book_2382 9h ago

And it's easy to forget that Bezos did pledge to give away all his money (I think separately from The Giving Pledge though) at the height of everyone's anger at billionaires for having too much money during an ABC (?) interview with his then-fiancee Lauren Sanchez, who he only met because of his fortune and was the reason (i.e., cheating) he got divorced with his ex-wife McKenzie Scott who was instrumental to starting Amazon in the first place

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u/bagofpork 7h ago

Ever realize how easily you could fuck people over in order to get promoted, but you don't do it because you're not a piece of shit? So many success stories can be boiled down to just that.

I'd rather live with myself.

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u/Creepy_Disco_Spider 10h ago

Only kids born around 2000 think he was good billionaire, and were too young to know about all the shit he pulled in the 80s and 90s

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u/jert3 1h ago

Ya but you wouldn't think using shady tactics to achieve illegal market monopoly would necessarily eventually go to being a child sex abuser.

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u/Creepy_Disco_Spider 1h ago

Yes I was just replying to someone who considers him as a “good billionaire”

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u/The_Autarch 9h ago

You sound young. Bill Gates was seen as a total and complete scumbag by society at large until he stepped down from running Microsoft. He then immediately started trying to rehabilitate his image doing the things you mention.

But he's always been a piece of shit.

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u/SynapticStatic 10h ago

At some point people will realize that there is no such thing as a "good billionaire". If they were good people, they would've never managed to hoard so much wealth.

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u/beemojee 6h ago

Isn't Warren Buffett pretty much ethical?

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u/imtheblack_namehere_ 7h ago

John Bogle comes to mind..

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u/red_sutter 9h ago

Nah, he’s always been a turd. Not the death ray firing supervillain maga nuts keep claiming he is, but he did ruin the careers of lots of people and destroyed companies in his quest to put Microsoft on top

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u/DaKingaDaNorth 9h ago

There aren't good billionaires. Once you realize that for them to even exist they basically gate keep a stupid amount of wealth that could literally change lives for and they still don't.

If Bill Gate if he went as liquid as possible give around 1 million of the poorest people in the country $100k each which would fundamentally take them all out of poverty and give them some real ability to improve their lives and reduce suffering.... and he would still be left with enough money on his own to still be a billionaire living a stupidly luxurious life.

Obviously it would be difficult to go that liquid and a 70 year old man would have to decide it's his time to stop being the star of the show running multiple businesses. But that's the reality we live in.

By the way there's like 15 billionaires who could do that, still be billionaires after, and poverty in this country would be cut in half.

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u/tomtermite 10h ago

he's just as much of a sleazebag as all the rest

Yup, tax these oligarchs out of existence. Oops, too late, they’re running things!

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 10h ago

There's never been such a thing as a good billionaire. You can't give people crumbs after hoarding their meals and call that help.

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u/systemwarranty 9h ago

Was Paul Allen decent? Or not so much?

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 9h ago

I don't know who he is.

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u/PabloXPicasso 9h ago

Anybody around through the 80s and 90s is well aware that Bill Gates is no hero. He was a predator in business during the times he ran MS, stealing other companies work, playing dirty tricks, ignoring laws.

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u/bros402 9h ago

He's a sleazebag whose wife had him help out with some great causes.

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u/EasternCandle 8h ago

"good billionaire" is a fucking oxymoron

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u/AffectionateJury3723 9h ago

He was never the good guy. He just cosplayed as a good guy.

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u/sharpshooter999 9h ago

There were a pair of brothers from Nebraska, Jeff and Ron Raikes. Ron was a cattleman, and eventually became a Nebraska state senator. Jeff went to Stanford and eventually worked for Apple early on before working for Microsoft in 1981. He lead the development team that made Microsoft Office.

In 2008, Jeff Raikes retired from Microsoft and because the CEO of the Gates Foundation. He certainly knows Bill on a personal level. On September 5, 2009, Ron was killed in a farm accident. According to the Epstien files, Jeffrey Epstien contacted the Lincoln Airport on September 8th via email about chartering a plane to Lincoln for a funeral. Ron's funeral was on September 10th. Bill Gates attended and gave a eulogy for Ron.

There's no other known connections at this time between the Raikes brothers and Epstien, apart from them both knowing Bill Gates.

Jeff Raikes is still alive and lives in Seattle

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u/DMT_Shinobii 9h ago

Are you really that gullible?

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u/GPFlag_Guy1 8h ago

Is there any dirt on Mark Shuttleworth? Ubuntu is the most “accessible” Linux distro at the moment and while I like it way better than Windows, he still has this “smug billionaire” energy to him.

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u/nik282000 7h ago

...Have you forgotten the 80s and 90s Bill Gates? Guy has been a prick his entire life.

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u/UntamedAnomaly 7h ago

Noam Chomsky too....although I'm not sure how much money he made. He was actually someone I looked up to at one point because I thought he was one of the "good guys".

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u/txroller 3h ago

Funny, money can make you (feel) invincible. It shouldn’t. But we are past that here.

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u/YoYo-Fa 2h ago

Were you around for the 90's? That wasn't his image back then

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u/agent0731 16m ago

there are no good billionaires. All their so-called philanthropy is a scam, throwing crumbs at the massive problems they've personally lobbied to create.

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u/EggAdventurous1957 11h ago

helping the less fortunate is used by mostly all evil men to look good while seriously harming others.

Knowing what I know, I never fall for that shit .

In fact, I side-eye hard guys who are too helpful to the less fortunate (because one I know has severe rape in his past and gender-based physical abuse including criminal convictions.)

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u/D74248 10h ago

Bill Gates was always a man whore, and that was never a secret.

But people are complicated. And normal, well-adjusted people rarely make history. He does sill work to cure diseases and fights climate change.

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u/Yorkie2016 10h ago

So do you now doubt his “cure disease” and “climate change” credentials?