Bill and Melinda and Jeff and Who Knows Who Else! By James Reed
There was a prize of a cheap bottle of plonk for the alor.org journo who had the best hypothesis about the breakup of the Gates, generously given by the Bullpen editor, and we all frantically typed away to make our deadlines, cigar smoke in the crowed office making it hard to see the screen. My guess at the time was that it had something to do with Jeffrey Epstein. All the elites worth eliting seem to have rubbed shoulders with this guy. As far as I could find from my team of trained monkeys searching the internet, rewarded with half a rotten banana each, no record of a visit by Bill to Jeff’s magic island, Treasure Island. But there were meetings at Jeff’s New York mansion, one going late into the night. Oooooooooooh! Oh, I won the prize, a half a bottle of metho for this outstanding contribution.
“Melinda Gates, whose 'people' are undoubtedly trying to distance her from Bill's controversies, was reportedly 'furious' after the couple had an uncomfortable 2013 meeting with Jeffrey Epstein - who by then was a convicted pedophile.
People 'familiar with the matter' tell the Daily Beast, the previously unreported meeting was held at Epstein's Upper East Side mansion in September, 2013, the same day the couple was awarded the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service award at the Pierre Hotel, where they were photographed with then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
According to said 'people', the 2013 meeting would "prove a turning point for the Gates' relationship with Epstein,' with Melinda telling friends after the encounter how uncomfortable she was to be hanging around the wealthy sex offender.
According to the New York Times, Gates and Epstein met at least six times, including visits to Epstein's New York mansion on 'multiple occasions,' staying at least once into the night.
So - the Gates' had no problem traveling across the country to meet with the convicted pedophile - who named Gates adviser Boris Nikolic as a fallback executor in a will Epstein amended just days before his August 2019 death in a Manhattan jail cell.
In a 2011 email to colleagues, Gates wrote: "His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me."
A spokeswoman or Gates, Bridgitt Arnold, said he "was referring only to the unique décor of the Epstein residence — and Epstein’s habit of spontaneously bringing acquaintances in to meet Mr. Gates," adding "It was in no way meant to convey a sense of interest or approval." Perhaps Gates was taken aback by Epstein's "main hallway that was covered with rows of artificial eyeballs from England that had been made for wounded soldiers" (via the Daily Mail).
Also contradicting Gates' distancing are flight records, which reveal that "Gates flew with Epstein from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach on March 1, 2013," on Epstein's private jet - "one of the few flights that year where pilot Larry Viskoski recorded the name of a passenger," according to the Daily Mail.”
It is so hard to think of disgusting things to say all the time, so I just let reality do the job for me. Like the storage of the artificial eyeballs … like who would ever have thought of that? What sort of people do that? Oh, those who rule the world.
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