Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said her ex-husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, being named in new files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein dredged up “painful times in my marriage”.

She told an NPR podcast she feels “unbelievable sadness” about the Epstein allegations and that the people named in the records, including her former husband, need to answer to it.

“I am so happy to be away from all the muck,” she said. The couple divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage.

Records released by the US justice department include an allegation by Epstein that Bill Gates caught a sexually transmitted disease. He has called the claim “absolutely absurd”.

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    2 days ago

    He started wearing sweaters to look wholesome like Bill Cosby.

    Irony runs thick in the non-fictional circus that is reality.

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      1 day ago

      ironic that cosby a sexual predator himself. gates likely knew too, and probably thought if cosby can look “homely and humble” despite him being a SP.