Bill Gates was accused of having more than 20 extramarital affairs in the fallout from his divorce from ex-wife Melinda, the billionaire told Gates Foundation staffers during a sullen town meeting earlier this year, according to a new report.
While Gates, 70, owned up to having two affairs with Russian women referenced in the Epstein files during the February gathering, the Microsoft co-founder left employees stunned when he revealed that allegations related to more than 20 affairs had come up during the 2021 divorce proceedings, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
Gates, who had been married to Melinda for 27 years, had issued a groveling apology at the time, but claimed he “did nothing illicit” during his meetings with late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
While little is known about the affair allegations, Gates admitted to having sex with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova and a former employee at his nuclear power company, TerraPower.
Gates met Antonova in 2010 at a tournament, while the Russian met Epstein seeking financial backers for a bridge academy. Epstein later paid for Antonova to attend software coding school.
The other woman, who has not been publicly identified, was referred to by Gates as a “Russian nuclear physicist” who he met “through business activities” and worked for two years at TerraPower, according to the Journal.
Concerned employees were reportedly told that the woman actually worked for their parent company, which only left the staffers confused.
Neither the Gates Foundation nor TerraPower immediately responded to The Post’s request for comment.
Epstein had allegedly discovered Gates’ affairs and attempted to threaten the billionaire with his knowledge of it, according to 2013 emails between the disgraced financier and Boris Nikolic, Gates’ chief adviser for science and technology.
The emails also tried to suggest Nikolic had assisted Gates in securing medication “in order to deal with the consequences of sex with Russian girls.”
Nikolic has claimed the emails were not written on Gates’ behalf or at his request, while a Gates spokesperson said the implication that the billionaire had contracted a sexually transmitted disease was “absolutely absurd and completely false.”
During the town hall, Gates admitted he spent time with Epstein in New York, Germany, France, and Washington, DC, but insisted he never visited the pedophile’s notorious private island in the Caribbean, Little St. James.