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Following reports that the two held meetings to discuss philanthropy, Bill Gates said in an interview today that he had no “business relationship or friendship” with Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier and sex offender.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Gates admitted to meeting with Epstein, but he said he did not have interactions with him beyond that. The Microsoft founder said he was “never at any parties or anything like that,” and that all the meetings they held together “were meetings with men.”
“I met him,” Gates told the 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. There…