Bill Gates Admits Two Affairs With Russian Women, Says Epstein Threatened to Expose Them
Bill Gates stood before his own foundation staff in a private town hall on February 24, 2026, and admitted he had two extramarital affairs during his 27-year marriage to Melinda French Gates. One with a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova, whom he met at tournaments. One with a Russian nuclear physicist he met through business.
Six days earlier, Gates had canceled a keynote address at a major AI summit in India attended by Prime Ministers and Presidents. The Gates Foundation issued a one-sentence statement. It did not mention Jeffrey Epstein.
The Department of Justice has released over 1.4 million documents from the Epstein files. Among them is document #EFTA01966988, a draft email Epstein wrote to himself in July 2013, thirteen years ago. It references “helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilitating his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall fro bridge tournamnts.”
Gates confirmed the Russian women today. Epstein wrote about them in 2013.
A July 4, 2013 email from Epstein to Boris Nikolic, Gates’s own science advisor and the man named as backup executor in Epstein’s will, warned that Gates risked going “from richest man to biggest hypocrite.”
Gates said at the town hall: “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit.”