Melinda French Gates spoke out for the first time since the release of Epstein files that contained mentions of her ex-husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
According to NBC News, in an interview with NPR’s Wild Card podcast on Tuesday, Melinda French Gates said she felt “unbelievable sadness” seeing her ex-husband’s name mentioned in the new batch of files released on Friday by the Justice Department.
She said, “Whatever questions remain there ... for those people, and for even my ex-husband, they need to answer to those things, not me,” she said. “And I am so happy to be away from all the muck that was there.”
“No girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with all of the various people around him. No girl,” she added. “I mean, it’s just — it’s beyond heartbreaking. I remember being those ages those girls were. I remember my daughters being those ages,” Melinda added.
Gates was one of several of the world’s richest and most prominent men mentioned in the millions of files released by the Justice Department on Friday in connection with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In a series of emails from 2013 that Epstein sent to himself, he appeared to suggest that Bill Gates was having an extramarital affair and seeking illicit drugs.
