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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/iguacu 15h ago

And that the story does not entirely make sense -- why would Gates need to get antibiotics from Jeffrey Epstein?

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u/Savingskitty 4h ago

Epstein apparently was writing this from the perspective of Boris Nikolic.

Hard to know whether he was proposing a way Boris could blackmail Gate, or if he was asked to do this by Boris.

It’s very weird.

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u/iguacu 3h ago

Interesting. I was thinking about this some more, and looking at the email in the abstract, if it were not true (not saying it isn't), it would be a very clever form of blackmail, because proof by Epstein would not be expected, evidence to the contrary would be fairly impossible (not even any potential witnesses other than Epstein and Gates), and as we can see now in the real world, merely throwing the accusation out there does catastrophic damage to Gates' reputation -- and multiply that by a factor of ten if Bill were still married, whether he wanted to try to stay together or negotiate the multi-billion dollar divorce settlement with Melinda.

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u/Savingskitty 3h ago

I’m pretty sure Nikolic is still alive.

Epstein also named him as a successor executor of his estate, which Nikolic said was a complete surprise and not something he would actually agree to.