A shocking new photo published by The Wall Street Journal appears to show Microsoft founder Bill Gates standing alongside a Polish model, in her 20s, who says that she was one of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims.
Gates and Epstein’s friendship has been well documented with the billionaire saying he regretted their relationship. The new photo was taken in 2014, six years after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to procuring a child for prostitution.
During an interview with CNN this year, host Sarah Ferguson asked Gates whether he was warned by his former wife about Epstein’s ‘way of sexually compromising people.’
In an interview with WSJ, the Polish model says that she flew alongside Epstein to meet with Gates in his Microsoft office in Seattle in 2014. She was one of the many women who became ensnared by the pedophile with promises of a career and success. The picture was taken by Epstein himself, she alleges.
‘Now when I look at myself there, it couldn’t have looked normal. I saw the looks of those people, like what is she doing here?,’ she told the outlet. The woman also posed for a photo with disgraced Oscar-winner Woody Allen.
Esptein and Gates pictured together at the pedophile financier’s home in Manhattan in 2011
Starting in 2011 Gates met with Epstein multiple times. Gates attended dinners at Epstein’s house in New York City (pictured), the Wall Street Journal reported
The new photo purportedly shows the Police model with Gates inside of his Microsoft office in in 2014
Jeffrey Epstein took his own life inside of his Manhattan jail sell in August 2019
Gates, pictured earlier this month, has maintained that his relationship with Epstein was purely related to philanthropic causes
A spokesperson for Gates told the Journal that he did not interact with the model when she visited his offices. According to her, Epstein had promised her a job with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Gates’ representatives for comment on this story.
The report adds that shortly after meeting, Epstein’s accountant, Richard Kahn, wrote a letter in support of her visa application. The application said that the woman would be doing work for the foundation in Africa.
An itinerary for a trip to Africa on behalf of the foundation was also emailed to the woman via Epstein from Gates Foundation deputy director Melanie Walker. Walker too was a visitor to the pedophile’s home in Manhattan.
Another woman who was associated with Epstein, a Russian Model, allegedly showed a Wall Street Journal reporter three pictures of her with Gates in three different places, including a hotel and Epstein’s house.
She also said that the photos were often Epstein’s idea and that he told her to post them on social media.
‘Epstein tried, unsuccessfully, to connect himself to Mr. Gates by any means possible, including spontaneously bringing in people for photos with Bill, whom Bill did not know or interact with further. Mr. Gates only ever met with Epstein for philanthropic purposes, which he regrets,’ a statement from the foundation given to the Wall Street Journal reads.
The Polish model said that she broke off contact with Epstein in 2015 when his various career promises never came to fruition.
‘Unfortunately my impression is that becoming a mistress was the only one job proposition you were really serious about. Meeting Gates or Woody was great – thank you – will never forget it – although nobody hire me just because I have a nice pictures with them,’ she wrote to him in an email.
Earlier this year, it was widely reported that Epstein tried to use his knowledge of Gates’ affair with Mila Antonova to blackmail him.
Epstein wanted Gates to invest in a multibillion-dollar charitable fund back in 2013 but he would not oblige.
Gates, who has said that bridge is one of his favorite hobbies, allegedly met Antonova at a tournament in 2010 and had an affair with her at around the same time. He was 55 and she was in her 20s.
Epstein met her later in around 2013 when she was looking to raise money to start an online bridge platform. Though he did not bankroll the project he did later pay for her to attend a software coding school.
The ‘threat’ was not made until 2017 when Epstein wrote to Gates asking for reimbursement for Antonova’s coding school in a tone that implied he knew about the affair and could expose it.
In a January 2023 interview with CNN, Gates was asked about ‘going against’ his then-wife Melinda’s advice to avoid Epstein.
‘You’re going way back in time… I shouldn’t have had dinners with him,’ he said.
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