{"id":196333,"date":"2019-10-15T07:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196333"},"modified":"2019-10-18T07:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:34:00","slug":"bill-gates-was-much-closer-to-jeffrey-epstein-than-he-initially-let-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196333","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Was Much Closer To Jeffrey Epstein Than He Initially Let On"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tyler Durden \u2013 Zero Hedge Oct 13, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of high profile friends from the upper echelons\u00a0of business, government and hollywood &#8211; most of whom now claim they barely knew the guy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">His associates, many hanging out with Epstein\u00a0after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor (which he likened to &#8220;stealing a bagel&#8221;),\u00a0include Bill Clinton,\u00a0Kevin Spacey, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/epstein-accuser-holds-victorias-secret-boss-les-wexner-responsible-what-happened-me\">Les Wexner<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/prince-andrew-now-says-party-filled-2010-epstein-visit-was-end-friendship\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Prince Andrew<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-17\/camouflaged-israeli-ex-pm-pictured-entering-epsteins-mansion-same-day-hotties-show\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Ehud Barak<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.It also includes\u00a0<strong>Bill Gates<\/strong>, who claimed last month that he didn&#8217;t have a &#8220;business relationship or friendship&#8221; with Epstein, and only &#8220;met him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196335\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gates-epstein-group-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196335\" class=\"wp-image-196335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gates-epstein-group-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gates-epstein-group-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gates-epstein-group-1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gates-epstein-group-1-768x601.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/12\/business\/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>, however,\u00a0<strong>Gates and Epstein met at least\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong><u>six times<\/u><\/strong><\/em><strong>, including visits to Epstein&#8217;s New York mansion on &#8216;multiple occasions,&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>staying at least once into the night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Later that spring,\u00a0on May 3, 2011, Mr. Gates again visited Mr. Epstein at his New York mansion, according to emails about the meeting and a photograph reviewed by The Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The photo, taken in Mr. Epstein\u2019s marble-clad entrance hall, shows a beaming Mr. Epstein \u2014 in blue-and-gold slippers and a fleece decorated with an American flag \u2014 flanked by luminaries. On his right: <strong>James E. Staley, at the time a senior JPMorgan executive, and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.<\/strong> On his left: <strong>Mr. Nikolic and Mr. Gates, smiling and wearing gray slacks and a navy sweater<\/strong>. &#8211;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/12\/business\/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Curiously, Gates adviser Boris Nikolic (pictured above) was named as a fallback executor in an will Epstein amended days before his August 10 death in a Manhattan jail cell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a 2011 email to colleagues, Gates wrote: &#8220;<strong>His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A spokeswoman or Gates, Bridgitt Arnold, said he &#8220;was referring only to the unique d\u00e9cor of the Epstein residence \u2014 and Epstein\u2019s habit of spontaneously bringing acquaintances in to meet Mr. Gates,&#8221; adding &#8220;It was in no way meant to convey a sense of interest or approval.&#8221;\u00a0Perhaps Gates was taken aback by Epstein&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>main hallway that was covered with\u00a0<u>rows of artificial eyeballs<\/u>\u00a0from England that had been made for wounded soldiers<\/strong>&#8221; (per the\u00a0<em><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7237967\/Jeffrey-Epstein-offers-remain-77M-mansion-hire-armed-guards-released-bail.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/span><\/a>)<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Also contradicting Gates&#8217; distancing are flight records, which reveal\u00a0that &#8220;<strong><u>Gates flew with Epstein from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach on March 1, 2013<\/u><\/strong>,&#8221; on Epstein&#8217;s private jet &#8211; &#8220;one of the few flights that year where pilot Larry Viskoski recorded the name of a passenger,&#8221;According to the\u00a0<em><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7377133\/Bill-Gates-REFUSES-reveal-flew-Lolita-Express-Jeffrey-Epstein-prison-release.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/gates%20log%20%282%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"148\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c0d3fa04-b87d-43e4-acfd-3207093bf88f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Gates now claims that he wasn&#8217;t aware it was Epstein&#8217;s plane!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In March 2013, Mr. Gates flew on Mr. Epstein\u2019s Gulfstream plane from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach, Fla., according to a flight manifest. Ms. Arnold said Mr. Gates \u2014 who has his own $40 million jet \u2014 <strong>hadn\u2019t been aware it was Mr. Epstein\u2019s plane<\/strong>.\u00a0&#8211;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/12\/business\/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bill Gates\u2019s spokeswoman spent two months saying Gates barely knew Jeffrey Epstein. Now she says Gates did not like Epstein\u2019s choice of home decor. With \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesStewartNYT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JamesStewartNYT<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c5D5HwyFiW\">https:\/\/t.co\/c5D5HwyFiW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emily Flitter (@FlitterOnFraud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlitterOnFraud\/status\/1183079033464152071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Meanwhile, employees of the Gates foundation also visited Epstein&#8217;s mansion on multiple occasions, while Epstein also &#8220;spoke with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase about a proposed multibillion-dollar charitable fund \u2014 <strong>an arrangement that had the potential to generate enormous fees for Mr. Epstein<\/strong>,&#8221; according to the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In late 2011, at Mr. Gates\u2019s instruction, the foundation sent a team to Mr. Epstein\u2019s townhouse to have a preliminary talk about philanthropic fund-raising, according to three people who were there. Mr. Epstein told his guests that if they searched his name on the internet <strong>they might conclude he was a bad person but that what he had done \u2014 soliciting prostitution from an underage girl \u2014 was <u>no worse than \u201cstealing a bagel,\u201d<\/u><\/strong> two of the people said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bill Gates. I am to believe one of the world\u2019s smartest richest men didn\u2019t know what Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all those girls? <\/p>\n<p>Girls. Not women. <\/p>\n<p>Girls. <\/p>\n<p>They are or were children. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called child rape. <br \/>It\u2019s rape. <br \/>Of kids.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XwHqeLFlzu\">https:\/\/t.co\/XwHqeLFlzu<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NYTimes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Xeni Jardin (@xeni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xeni\/status\/1183100392785104897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>How Gates and Epstein met<\/strong>, according to the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Two members of Mr. Gates\u2019s inner circle \u2014 <strong>Boris Nikolic and Melanie Walker<\/strong> \u2014 were close to Mr. Epstein and at times functioned as intermediaries between the two men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Ms. Walker met Mr. Epstein in 1992<\/strong>, six months after graduating from the University of Texas. <strong>Mr. Epstein, who was an adviser to Mr. Wexner, the owner of Victoria\u2019s Secret, told Ms. Walker that he could land her an audition for a modeling job there<\/strong>, according to Ms. Walker. She later moved to New York and stayed in a Manhattan apartment building that Mr. Epstein owned. After she graduated from medical school, she said, Mr. Epstein hired her as a science adviser in 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Ms. Walker later met Steven Sinofsky, a senior executive at Microsoft<\/strong> who became president of its Windows division, and moved to Seattle to be with him. In 2006, <strong>she joined the Gates Foundation<\/strong> with the title of senior program officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>At the foundation, Ms. Walker met and befriended Mr. Nikolic<\/strong>, a native of what is now Croatia and a former fellow at Harvard Medical School who was the foundation\u2019s science adviser. <strong>Mr. Nikolic and Mr. Gates frequently traveled and socialized together.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ms. Walker, who had remained in close touch with Mr. Epstein, introduced him to Mr. Nikolic, and the men became friendly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Mr. Epstein and Mr. Gates first met face to face on the evening of Jan. 31, 2011<\/strong>, at Mr. Epstein\u2019s townhouse on the Upper East Side. They were joined by Dr.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/13\/nyregion\/jeffrey-epstein-new-york-elite.html?module=inline\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Eva Andersson-Dubin<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a former Miss Sweden whom Mr. Epstein had once dated, and her 15-year-old daughter. (Dr. Andersson-Dubin\u2019s husband, the hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, was a friend and business associate of Mr. Epstein\u2019s. The Dubins declined to comment.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The gathering started at 8 and lasted several hours, according to Ms. Arnold, Mr. Gates\u2019s spokeswoman. Mr. Epstein subsequently boasted about the meeting in emails to friends and associates. \u201cBill\u2019s great,\u201d he wrote in one, reviewed by The Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;I didn\u2019t go to New Mexico or Florida or Palm Beach or any of that,&#8221; claims Gates.\u00a0&#8220;There were people around him who were saying, hey, if you want to raise money for global health and get more philanthropy, he knows a lot of rich people.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And it looks like Gates was one of Epstein&#8217;s &#8220;rich people.&#8221; According to the report,\u00a0<strong>Gates donated $2 million to MIT&#8217;s Media Lab, which university officials described as having been &#8220;directed&#8221; by Epstein<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to Arnold, Gates&#8217; spokeswoman, &#8220;Over time, Gates and his team realized Epstein\u2019s capabilities and ideas were not legitimate and all contact with Epstein was discontinued.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Perhaps &#8216;Gates and his team&#8217; should have steered clear of the known pedophile in the first place?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/bill-gates-was-much-closer-jeffrey-epstein-he-intially-let\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates is the latest high profile figure to be tied to Jeffrey Epstein and his underage prostitution ring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196340,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196333\/revisions\/196340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}