Meet Mila Antonova, the young bridge player who Bill Gates had an affair with in 2010.
Jeffrey Epstein found out about this affair and used it as leverage against Bill Gates. Bill Gates began having private meetings with Epstein in 2011, but Epstein didn’t find out about the affair until 2013, so Bill was already friends with him before the blackmail.
In one email to colleagues after meeting with Epstein bill gates said : ‘His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me.’ It turns out, it did work for Bill as he even flew on Epstein’s private jet to meet with him. According to Melinda Gates, Gates friendship with Epstein played a huge role in their divorce.
Jeffrey Epstein threatened to expose an affair Bill Gates allegedly had with a Russian bridge player after the Microsoft co-founder declined to join his philanthropic venture.
“Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates”.
Jeffrey Epstein apparently threatened to expose an affair between Bill Gates and a Russian woman after pushing the Microsoft co-founder to participate in a multibillion-dollar charitable fund, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, making Gates the latest billionaire in recent weeks to be tied to Epstein.
Gates purportedly met the woman—a bridge player who was in her 20s—around 2010, and Epstein met her in 2013 when she was seeking funding to start an online bridge tutorial platform, later paying for her to attend a software programming boot camp, the Journal reported, citing multiple unnamed sources.
In 2017, Epstein emailed Gates, requesting reimbursement for the cost of Antonova’s course. This request came after Epstein had failed to convince Gates to participate in a philanthropic fund he was trying to establish with JPMorgan Chase.The implication behind the email was that Epstein could expose the affair if Gates didn’t maintain a connection between them.
A spokeswoman for Gates clarified that his interactions with Epstein were solely for philanthropic purposes, and Epstein’s attempts to leverage their past relationship to threaten Gates were unsuccessful.
Bill Gates has acknowledged meeting Epstein a few times but claims that these encounters were solely focused on philanthropy, which he now considers a mistake.
In 2017, Epstein emailed Gates, requesting reimbursement for the cost of Antonova’s course. This request came after Epstein had failed to convince Gates to participate in a philanthropic fund he was trying to establish with JPMorgan Chase.The implication behind the email was that Epstein could expose the affair if Gates didn’t maintain a connection between them.
A spokeswoman for Gates clarified that his interactions with Epstein were solely for philanthropic purposes, and Epstein’s attempts to leverage their past relationship to threaten Gates were unsuccessful.
Bill Gates has acknowledged meeting Epstein a few times but claims that these encounters were solely focused on philanthropy, which he now considers a mistake.
Antonova, who played bridge and sought funding for an online bridge tutorial business called BridgePlanet, was introduced to Epstein by Boris Nikolic, a confidant of Gates and a top science adviser at the time. While Epstein didn’t invest in Antonova’s project, he did pay for her coding school upon her request.
In addition to the revelations about Epstein and Gates, we also know about Epstein’s attempts to establish a multibillion-dollar charitable fund with JPMorgan, which would involve contributions from wealthy individuals.
Epstein tried to use his connections, including Gates, to gain support for the fund. However, the fund never materialized, and JPMorgan has expressed regret for its association with Epstein.
In 2017, after the affair had ended, Epstein, a convicted sex offender, asked Gates to reimburse him for the cost of the course, in an email that reportedly read like an implicit threat to reveal their affair if Gates did not maintain an association with Epstein.
Gates’ spokesperson told the Journal he did not pay Epstein back for the course, and told Forbes he did not have “any financial dealings” with the disgraced financier, reiterating that Gates believed it was a mistake “to have ever met him.”
