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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    Billionaire philanthropist

    The most disgusting oxymoron I’ve read this morning

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      As disgusting as this is, is it really surprising when most of media is referring to a child rapist and sex trafficker as ‘disgraced financier’.

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        I think it’s to give out background for who this child rapist and sex trafficker is beyond the whole thing the news is talking about. It’s like writing news articles about a murder conviction and just calling the person “convicted murderer”, sure it is accurate but also that’s the what the whole article is about

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      21 hours ago

      He spent a lot of his money to eradicate disease in other countries. I guess he was just offsetting himself.