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As more information emerges regarding the reasons behind Bill and Melinda Gates ending their marriage, that divorce settlement begins to look larger and larger.

MacKenzie Scott may have left her marriage to Jeff Bezos with in excess of $35 billion, but Melinda’s lawyers are reported to have first been contacted back in 2019, and Bill’s indiscretions are now playing out in public.

Firstly, Bill Gates has now acknowledged, through a spokeswoman, that he had an extramarital affair with a Microsoft employee.

The company investigated the “intimate relationship” shortly before he resigned from the board last year, reports The Washington Post:

“There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably,” Gates’s spokeswoman, Bridgitt Arnold, said in an emailed statement…

“Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” [Microsoft spokesman Frank] Shaw said in an emailed statement.

That’s not all, folks.

Another report says that Gates tried to date women working for him at Microsoft, as well as women who worked at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

This from NY Mag:

Gates pursued women who worked for him at Microsoft and at the philanthropic institution with his wife’s name on it, asking people out by email — “If this makes you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened,” he wrote in 2006 — and in person.

Witnesses also claim that he was dismissive of his wife in meetings at their shared group, and that Gates did not respond to her request for an outside party to investigate a sexual harassment claim against their money manager, who is still on the job.

Then, of course, there is Bill’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein, which is said to have been one of the initial reasons Melinda first considered divorce.

Gates’ spokeswoman, Bridgitt Arnold, has said that Bill’s relationship with Epstein was solely related to work, adding that it’s “extremely disappointing that there have been so many untruths published about the cause, the circumstances and the timeline of Bill Gates’ divorce.”

The Daily Beast reports something else entirely:

Epstein gave Bill Gates advice on ending his marriage with Melinda after the Microsoft co-founder complained about her during a series of meetings at the money manager’s mansion, according to two people familiar with the situation…

The billionaire met Epstein dozens of times starting in 2011 and continuing through to 2014 mostly at the financier’s Manhattan home—a substantially higher number than has been previously reported…

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The people familiar with the matter said Gates found freedom in Epstein’s lair, where he met a rotating cast of bold-faced names and discussed worldly issues in between rounds of jokes and gossip—a “men’s club” atmosphere that irritated Melinda.

Those meetings took place years after Epstein’s 2008 guilty plea for soliciting a minor for prostitution.

The claims above have again been strenuously denied by a spokesperson for Bill, and a former Microsoft employee also says the meetings with Epstein have been somewhat mischaracterised:

…Gates wanted to get in the good graces of some of Epstein’s professional connections.

“My understanding was he wasn’t hanging out with Epstein to get women,” the employee said.

“Bill’s not amenable to anyone telling him what he should or shouldn’t do,” the person added. “If anyone were to say, ‘I don’t think you should hang out with [Epstein],’ it would have been Melinda.”

…“Their body language when they would be together, it was like a Melania and Donald thing: ‘Don’t hold my hand, get on the other side of the table,’” the person said…

You can read the rest of The Daily Beast’s report here.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has, for a number of years, done fantastic work around the globe.

Behind closed doors, however, it appears that things have been long been unravelling, and any connection with Epstein needs to be investigated fully.

Oh, before we part ways – you’re still being daft if you think COVID-19 vaccines are a plot by Bill to implant a microchip.

[sources:washpost&nymag&dbeast]