Bill Gates slept with Russian girls, got a sexually-transmitted disease and asked for antibiotics to slip to his then-wife Melinda, extraordinary new Jeffrey Epstein files from the Department of Justice allege.
The late pedophile financier made the astonishing claims about the Microsoft billionaire in emails he sent to himself on July 18, 2013.
The lengthy message lashed out at Gates for ending their friendship and says: ‘TO add insult to the injury you them (sic) implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis.’
Earlier in the same missive, Epstein said he had been ‘dismayed beyond comprehension’ by Gates’s decision to ‘disregard our friendship developed over the last 6 years.’
The shocking emails appear to be drafts of a letter intended to be sent by Gates’ then-top advisor Boris Nikolic, around his resignation from the Microsoft billionaire’s charitable foundation.
Appearing to write from the point of view of Nikolic, another email on the same morning offered his resignation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
He wrote: ‘I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill…
‘In my role as his right hand man I have been asked and wrongly acquiesced into participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate, to the ethically unsound and have been repeatedly asked to do thing (sic) that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal…
‘From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trusts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall fro (sic) bridge touramnts (sic), as I am a medial doctor, but have no presriptions (sic) writing ability.
The shocking claims about the Microsoft founder have not been verified and come from a new tranche of hundreds of thousands of documents released by the Department of Justice on Friday morning.
The Daily Mail has contacted Bill and Melinda Gates for comment.
A new photo showing Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein with friends was released on Friday
Epstein sent himself a lengthy email claiming Gates had gotten an STD and that he had asked for antibiotics to slip to Melinda
In another email sent earlier the same day Epstein wrote that Gates had pressured him into ‘participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate to the ethically unsound’
Gates has said he regrets his friendship with the late pedophile, who died in a New York City jail in 2019, but has long denied any impropriety.
Friday’s release also includes multiple new undated images of Epstein and Gates together in various locations.
In one photo Gates is seen smiling with a woman whose face has been redacted with a black rectangle.
Gates and Melinda were married between 1994 and 2021. Melinda, who is now a philanthropist, cited Gates’s affairs and friendship with Epstein as reasons for the divorce, but did not divulge further details.
Melinda reportedly hired lawyers to plan her split from Gates in 2019, after reports emerged about his repeated meetings with Epstein contrary to the Microsoft founder’s previous public denials.
She retained counsel after becoming concerned about her husband’s alleged business dealings with the pedophile financier, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Gates has previously sought to downplay his yearslong relationship with Epstein, who killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting a sex trafficking trial.
In 2019, Gates told the Wall Street Journal ‘I didn’t have any business relationship or friendship with him’, ‘I didn’t go to New Mexico or Florida or Palm Beach or any of that,’ ‘Every meeting where I was with him were meetings with men,’ and ‘I was never at any parties or anything like that.’
An undated photo released Friday showed Bill Gates posing with a woman whose face had been obscured
Melinda, pictured in March 2025, divorced Bill in 2021 after 17 years of marriage. She cited his friendship with Epstein and cheating as reasons for the split
But a month after the denial, the New York Times reported that he had met with Epstein on ‘numerous occasions’ beginning in 2011, after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Gates met with Epstein at least three times at his Manhattan townhouse, staying late into the night on one occasion.
A March 2013 flight manifest from Epstein’s Gulfstream private jet says that Gates flew with him from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach, Florida.
Gates’ then-spokeswoman Bridgitt Arnold told the newspaper that he didn’t know it was Epstein’s plane.
The Times quoted an alleged 2011 email Gates wrote to his colleagues after his first meeting, saying: ‘His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me.’
‘A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late,’ Gates wrote in the reported email, referring to former Miss Sweden Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin and her 15-year-old daughter.
Arnold told the Times that Gates ‘was referring only to the unique décor of the Epstein residence — and Epstein’s habit of spontaneously bringing acquaintances in to meet Mr. Gates,’ and that the comment ‘was in no way meant to convey a sense of interest or approval.’
The continuing exposure of embarrassing links between Gates and Epstein led to a toe-curling interview on PBS NewsHour, in which Gates admitted: ‘I had dinners with him. I regret doing that.’
‘Those meetings were a mistake. They didn’t result in what he purported and I cut them off,’ he told anchor Judy Woodruff.
Two members of Gates’ inner circle were also close with Epstein.
Melanie Walker was Epstein’s science advisor and became a senior program officer at the Microsoft founder’s charity the Gates Foundation, and Boris Nikolic, the foundation’s science advisor, was so close to the hobnobbing pedophile that he was named as a backup executor to his estate.
Nikolic said he was ‘shocked’ to be given the role in Epstein’s will, declined it, and told the Times in 2019: ‘I deeply regret ever meeting Mr. Epstein.’
Text messages from 2017 released by Congress last year suggest the relationship between Gates and Epstein continued, despite his then-wife Melinda’s disapproval.
An adviser to the Microsoft billionaire wrote to Epstein: ‘He wants to talk to you but his wife won’t let him,’ adding a minute later, ‘he loves you’, ‘he says hi’, and, referring to a philanthropic fund Epstein was trying to administer for Gates and other donors: ‘he feels bad … He thought great idea but wife wouldn’t allow.’
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released files from Epstein’s estate in September last year, including his appointment calendar showing several meetings with Gates.
An undated photograph released by Committee last month showed Gates at an event with ex-Prince Andrew, the British royal who lost his title over his close relationship with Epstein and allegations that he had sex with a 17-year-old girl who the financier allegedly trafficked. Andrew has long denied those allegations.
A lawsuit over the claims of the girl, Virginia Giuffre, was settled out of court in 2022.
