Bill Gates’ ex Melinda French has revealed one of the reasons she broke irreconcilably with the Microsoft cofounder: his meeting with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
She said she met Epstein once because she “wanted to see who this man was” and found him to be “abhorrent” and “evil personified,” and had “nightmares” about the experience.
Melinda told CBS’s Gayle King that “many things,” not just one, caused their split, but she “did not like that [Gates] had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein” and “made that clear” to him.
Other reasons included Gates’ secret affairs, which he admitted to have happened 20 years ago.
But Melinda, whose fortune ballooned to $6 billion after her divorce, said she believes in forgiveness” and “thought we had worked through some of that.”
She also hinted she is “definitely open” to meeting someone new and has started “dipping [her] toes” in the dating pool.