Epstein claimed Bill Gates caught STD from ‘sex with Russian girls,’ slipped Melinda antibiotics in latest files released by DOJ
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Samuel Chamberlain and
Josh Christenson
Published Jan. 30, 2026
Updated Jan. 30, 2026, 4:42 p.m. ET
Jeffrey Epstein claimed in July 2013 that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, one of the world’s richest men, asked one of his advisers to provide him with medicine to treat sexually transmitted diseases — the consequences of “sex with Russian girls.”
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The late convicted pedophile’s stunning allegations — which were rejected as “completely false” by a Gates’s spokesperson — were included in a tranche of 3.5 million pages of documents released by the Justice Department Friday.
Epstein appeared to be making the claims in a draft statement on behalf of Gates’ longtime science adviser, Boris Nikolic, announcing his intent to leave the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Jeffrey Epstein claimed in July 2013 that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates asked one of his advisers to provide him with medicine to treat sexually transmitted diseases. DOJ
The video player is currently playing an ad.“During the past few weeks I have been caught up in a severe marital dispute between Melinda and Bill,” Epstein wrote in Nikolic’s voice on July 18, 2013.
“… In my role as his right hand I had been asked on mulitple occassion [sic] and in hindsight, wrongly acquiesced into participating in things that have ranged from the morally inappropriate, to the ethically unsound and had been repeatedly asked to do other things that get near and potentially over the line into the illegal,” Epstein continued.
“… From helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls, to facilictating [sic] his illicit trysts, with married women, to being asked to provide adderall [for] bridge [tournaments] . I feel I owe it to my friends and futre [sic] colleagues to admit a moral failure , to ask forgiveness and to move on with my life.”
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In a separate draft email to Gates, Epstein as Nikolic accused the billionaire of engineering a “cover up [sic] so that you can maintain the reputation that you have worked so hard to achieve” — and secretly slipping antibiotics to his then-wife Melinda French Gates.
“[You] implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std [sic], your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda, and the description of your penis,” the draft went on. “… I am concerned that if Melinda decides as you said to file for a public divorce, the damage done to the pledge program alone would result in billions of dollars of money no longer being used for social good as Im [sic] sure that some wives and husbands would feel free to retreat from their commitments.”
Epstein had threatened to expose Gates’ alleged affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova in 2017 purportedly because Bill wouldn’t join a charitable fund the financier began with JP Morgan Chase, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
Here is the latest on Jeffrey Epstein documents released by DOJ: The following month, Nikolic wrote back to Epstein that he was going to receive compensation for two years for a “deal” involving the Gates Foundation until “work stops.”
“larry is a bad bad guy,” Nikolic continued. “he said you and bill never finished the deal re foundation medicine , so there currently is no deal.”
It’s unclear if the email is suggesting the involvement of former Harvard President Larry Summers, who appeared in previous DOJ disclosures, in the purported deal.
“he said that bill would make some calls or send a letter of recomendation [sic]. I don’t think he has spoken to bill on any of this, he is melindas [sic] boy, he said he is a manager of bg3,” added Gates’ science adviser, referring to Gates Ventures, which handles personal philanthropic investments.
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“These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false,” a spokesperson of Gates told the Daily Mail. House Oversight Democrats/AFP via Getty Images A Gates spokesperson told the Daily Mail: “These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false.”
“The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame,” the rep added.
Gates has repeatedly claimed in the past that his relationship with the financier was solely focused on philanthropic efforts. At least seven drafts of the email, written July 17-18, 2013, can be found in the records published by the DOJ.
Melinda French Gates founded the women-focused investment firm Pivotal Ventures after her divorce from Bill Gates in 2021. Reps for the organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The same year as their divorce, Bill Gates told CNN of Epstein: “It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there.”
Melinda Gates French said in a 2022 interview of her ex-husband: “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him,” She also acknowledged she had met Epstein once because she also “wanted to see who” he was.
“I regretted it the second I walked in the door,” Melinda acknowledged of her crossing paths with the convicted sex offender. “He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. My heart breaks for these women.”
Bill and Melinda married in 1994 and co-founded the Gates Foundation, which has spent more than $100 billion on philanthropic work since its inception.
Friday’s disclosures included new pictures of Gates — including one photograph of the billionaire smiling next to a woman whose face has been blacked out.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters ahead of the DOJ’s release that the feds’ review of the Epstein files aired on the side of caution by redacting all women — except the deceased financier’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Bill Gates poses with a woman in a photograph released in the Epstein Files on Friday DOJ Gates, now 70, joined Epstein for dinner at the latter’s Upper East Side townhouse in 2011, according to the New York Times.
Another photo allegedly taken by Epstein shows himself and Gates at Microsoft’s Seattle-area headquarters in March 2014.
Both encounters took place years after Epstein registered as a sex offender after copping to state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008.
The pedophile served 13 months in prison, most of it on work release, before being arrested more than a decade later, in July 2019, on sex trafficking charges.
Epstein, 66, died in his Manhattan jail cell the following month, in what authorities later ruled a suicide.
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He had fraternized with powerful world leaders like former President Bill Clinton, Hollywood celebrities such as Kevin Spacey, academics like Noam Chomsky and various business leaders — including then-real estate magnate Donald Trump.
“I didn’t have any business relationship or friendship with him,” Gates told the Journal of Epstein in 2019. “I didn’t go to New Mexico or Florida or Palm Beach or any of that.”
“Every meeting where I was with him were meetings with men,” the billionaire added. “I was never at any parties or anything like that.” |
