By Emily Kirkpatrick
Vanity Fair
May 16, 2021
Bill Gates’s meetings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are apparently an issue that’s weighed heavily for a long time on his now estranged wife, Melinda Gates.
“Epstein is definitely a sore spot” for Melinda, a source confided to People. “That’s a long time for issues to fester.” They added that anything involving Epstein was a “major trauma” for Melinda and that “she was totally opposed to what she considered shady dealings and some other issues he wanted to pursue in the business area. She was not afraid to speak up about it either.” But while this was a crucial issue for her, the source claims the decision to ultimately file for divorce from her husband of 27 years was due to a “variety of reasons.”