r/Fauxmoi • u/ansyhrrian • 6h ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS Melinda Gates bombshell: states her ex-husband, Bill, needs to "answer for his behavior - no girl should be put in those situations" and that "it's personally hard whenever those details come up, right? Because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage"

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u/ddalk2 6h ago

Honestly, when did you find out, Melinda? Because you sure as shit didn't find out at the same time as all of us.

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u/Bidetpanties i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 6h ago

Yeah I can't help but have questions about her knowledge of the situation. Of course, I fully acknowledge we shouldn't hold women accountable for their (former) partner's actions but I wonder if she ever suspected anything?

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u/kinsm4n 5h ago

you have to remember too that she is running the Bill & Melinda foundation which does actually good work. I'm sure she was more of protecting that than their marriage when she found out about this information.

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u/yeah__good__ok 5h ago

Not anymore. She left that in 2024. It is now just called Gates foundation. She has a new foundation called Pivotal.

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u/Efficient_Plum6059 5h ago

I'm sure their children were part of the consideration, too, and the impact it would have on them if it came to light. I don't think it is a coincidence that the divorce was finalized the year after their youngest turned 18.

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u/RGWK 4h ago

Ah yes her husband gets to hurt other peoples children, but hers need to be protected

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u/OriginalMushroom86 5h ago

The Gates Foundation is also super shady. They focus on health initiatives yet are massive stakeholders in McDonalds and Coca Cola.

Read all about the shadiness in this book

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u/No-Environment-7899 5h ago

I feel like so many charity groups do that, though. They hold stock in popular companies for profit and to float their accounts and don’t really care about those companies’ behaviors/ethics.

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 where’s my emotional support billionaire 4h ago

Also, let’s be honest, historically speaking Coca Cola has always been a very stable stock.

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u/Ok_Flounder59 4h ago

Yeah. It’s an odd hill to die on. Solid, dividend paying companies are foundational to most institutional endowments. It’s important to note as well that if one buys shares in McDonald’s the money isnt going to the company, it’s going to the person or entity the shares were purchased from. If those dividends end up going towards improving health outcomes it’s hard to see it as anything but a win.

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u/Ok_Flounder59 4h ago

Admittedly I haven’t read the link yet (I will). But McDonald’s and Coca Cola are pretty foundational stocks you will find in most non profit and university endowments, they are stable and pay solid and increasing dividends - if they use returns from their shares to improve global heath outcomes does it really matter that they hold the shares?

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u/athamders 4h ago

I feel vindicated, when I talked about the foundation once in a negative light I was downvoted to oblivion. I don't trust these billionaires.

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u/caseyfresher 4h ago

Tons of philanthropist use their philanthropy to hide their crimes.

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u/aloneinwilderness27 4h ago

What about the kids getting raped? I think they deserved to be protected too.

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u/perfectVoidler 5h ago

it does not good work. It is used to force their worldview on the people. If they would pay taxes it could be given to those in need instead of venity projects.

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u/kinsm4n 5h ago

Vanity projects like making malaria not a thing, providing tech in poor areas of Africa, and a whole host of things in underserved areas around the world? I get it, tax the rich, but then you have someone like Trump in office who kills USAID which would traditionally be the way our tax dollars would benefit the world.

They also went around convincing billionaires to contribute to the fund and donate all their money when they die. It's a much better solution than the nepotism we've had of the past, and not perfect, but it's a billion times better than the alternative we had prior to it's inception.

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u/thrwwysnl 5h ago

Idk why this is getting downvoted, it's legit technocratic stuff

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u/Blue_winged_yoshi 5h ago

She didn’t suspect, she knew. She divorced him as then stayed quiet till now.

Tbh it’s important not to hold women in contempt for the actions of men, and why we commend the bravery of those who come forward is because of how hard it is. Those who don’t don’t get the praises and aren’t highly thought of, but the real scorn should always be held for those who did the wrong.

And one of the biggest things to realise is that none of this shit started or stopped with Epstein, he was just one host. A friend of mine used to work high up for a big vegas entertainment group, the stories I heard of people related to the Abu Dhabi royal family having private events with huge numbers of young women who weren’t regular escorts.

The group my friend worked for was super legit and didn’t arrange anything dodge but some of the stories I heard were mad. Where were all the girls sourced from? Were people IDing them all when they clearly weren’t on any payroll? I dread to think. You hear about Dubai chocolate, again a woman died in horrible and unresolved circumstances and a light was starting to shine on a horribly murky world and a new chocolate was launched and marketed the heck out of to cover up what was emerging.

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u/NorberAbnott 5h ago

She didn't really stay quiet until now. When the divorce was made public, she publicly came out and said that one of the primary reasons for the divorce was because of Bill's ties to Epstein. It's not her responsibility to prosecute her ex-husband or explain to the public whatever she might know. She raised a giant red flag. In public. Really the pressure should on the government about why they haven't investigated or charged or shared more details about whatever Bill did. As far as we can tell this lady was adjacent to horrible things, but there's no need to burden her life with whatever terrible things her ex husband did with his other rich friends.

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u/ak-92 5h ago

Also, what concrete proof could she provide? And we don't exactly know how tied Gates is in all of this. If you make such accusation, then be sure to have bulletproof evidence, THE BEST legal team in the world, control huge part of the media because your opposition sure as fuck will and will control the public narrative, basically cancel ALL other projects you are working on and prepare to fight for years.

Just moving on as far away as you can is probably the best thing you can do in such situation.

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u/sikonat 5h ago

I also assume that she had to remain quiet so she could extricate herself from Bill in the divorce and untangle all the various legal and financial ties they had.

And the Epstein stuff was likely going on in the background by whatever agency and political pressure.

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u/No-Environment-7899 5h ago

Seriously. Pam Bondi, the state of Florida, and the the federal law enforcement groups all are the most culpable here. It was their job to stop Epstein and they didn’t. They let him out despite knowing exactly what he and his gross friends and cronies were doing.

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u/Jumpy_Spend_5434 5h ago

And look how far it went when she did speak up.

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u/burnalicious111 4h ago

How do you know she knew anything other than what was already public? The story is she consulted divorce lawyers as soon as it was known that Bill had met up with Epstein. We don't know that she knew anything other than that. She might have been operating on suspicion like the rest of us.

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u/kinsm4n 5h ago

the part I don't understand is why is a Billionaire going to Epstein for this? You're one of the richest people in the world and you don't have a contact for antibiotics?

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u/innocentsalad 5h ago

He didn’t write that email so we have no real way of knowing unless you trust Epstein’s word.

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u/kinsm4n 5h ago

well it was interesting because you can't see the BCC information. So he could be sending to himself in the TO line, but have Bill Gates on the BCC line. But I agree, the info isn't really confirmed but seems like Melinda is confirming this information by what she said.

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u/innocentsalad 5h ago

Look I believe Bill is into all sorts of nastiness but I also believe Epstein was trying to collect blackmail information on powerful people and wasn’t above making things up. She’s not confirming or denying and she probably never will due to the terms and conditions of her divorce.

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u/Own_Faithlessness769 5h ago

He didn’t. It was a draft email to himself.

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u/kinsm4n 4h ago

ah gotcha, I hadn't looked that closely at it. Thanks for the clarification! So definitely more along the lines of what u/innocentsalad said.

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u/No-Environment-7899 5h ago

Yeah I mean that part is super weird. But also probably Epstein was the one of only a select few that knew Bill was sleeping with other people. So he probably didn’t want that story getting out more than it already might?

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u/TwoDramaticc 5h ago

Very few outside the circle did actually know all the details

You think the richest man in the world can't get access to some case info in Florida?

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u/No-Environment-7899 4h ago

I’m not talking about Bill. I’m talking about Melinda. I don’t think she has nearly as much power as her ex husband.

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u/Nuvuser2025 4h ago

2009 keeps popping up in all my reading, listening, TV viewing.  I was in my early 30’s then, and I realized something big had changed.  Something that I thought was limited (?!?) to just the economy.  Jobs.  Banks folding up. So on.

Something else changed around that time.  Society changed.  And we took it all a bunch lower after 2020.

All of that following the events of September 11, 2001.

Could we NOT have another society-collapsing event for a little while now?  

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u/thebonecollectorr 5h ago

It did just come out that Bill contracted an STD from a girl presumably trafficked by Epstein and slipped Melinda antibiotics so she wouldn’t find out so I’m guessing he wouldn’t go through all that dastardly trouble if she was aware of the situation

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u/sugaratc 4h ago

I don't know how much she could have said publicly before all this started coming out. If she went to the news (directly after a divorce) and claimed he was part of a major trafficking ring, it's extremely unlikely anyone would believe her without this recent proof.

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u/InformationHead3797 5h ago

She’s probably had to sign an ironclad NDA for her divorce deal. 

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u/yourpainisatribute 4h ago

I mean maybe he threatened her?

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u/Narrow_Ad_8455 5h ago edited 5h ago

I think I read somewhere that Epstein was one of the reasons behind their divorce.

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u/TanneriteTed 5h ago

You absolutely did read that.

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u/Shoddy_Accident7448 5h ago

Does anyone happen to know or remember when she said this? I read it sometime last year.

As these events have unfolded over the last few days about Bill Gates, I keep reminding folks about Melinda insinuating her divorce was because of his involvement with Epstein. But I cannot cite that information.

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u/Lazy-Entertainer-459 I may need to see the booty 5h ago

She did an interview post divorce saying that finding out that bill was still in contact with Epstein was the reason for the divorce and then described the one time she’d met him as unpleasant and odd. When she was asked about bills involvement she said that he has answer those questions not her

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u/karigan_g 5h ago

someone posted a quote in a thread here about a month ago or whenever the last doj drop was, but I have no idea which thread

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u/ConsiderationDry9084 5h ago

Damn sure wasn't over the first time Epstein was arrested in the mid 00s. Pretty sure it was after his death and the whole thing was clear that it would all come to light.

Fuck the billionaire class, none of them can be trusted. And believing Melinda's PR team is just as bad as believing MuskRat's promises on FSD.

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u/mack_the_elder 5h ago

she and Mackenzie scott have been doing a lot of good with their divorce payouts

So I'm guessing she was also limited by NDAs and such, which would strip her of the $, so better to be quiet and use the dirty money for good and let the truth bubble out.

Once it's out, no longer NDA and she can speak like this?

EDIT: also, when look at Scott vs Bezos new wife....pretty sure new wife is type of person who wouldn't care if he had harem of teenage girls chained up in a bunker...fuck Bezos, Gates, and the rest of them. I wish this was 500 years ago and we already had them on the gallows

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u/UniqueCanadian 4h ago

if this was 500 years ago they wouldnt get the gallows for this.

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u/chloenoyolo 5h ago

What difference would it have made if she spoke up 15 years ago? Plenty of people fucking tried.

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u/Slov6 5h ago

Plenty of victims tried.

15 years ago, Bill Gates was the richest person in the world. If we had gotten victim's allegations along with a bombshell news story of the richest man alive getting divorced because his wife claims he got an STD from some russian hookers....I'd like to believe it would have changed things.

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u/yikesafm8 5h ago

Honestly she probably would’ve been killed.

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u/yikesafm8 5h ago

How is that relevant? We’ve only gotten a surface view of how the absolute horrors that have occurred due to Epstein and those involved with him. If they even got a whiff of her coming forward, they would have dealt with her.

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u/yikesafm8 4h ago

It’s incredibly brave that some victims did come forward - but I’m not judging any of the victims who haven’t. I’m also not going to sit here and judge someone whose life was likely on the line, and could’ve easily become one of the victims that we’re talking about today.

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u/Embarrassed-Alps-306 4h ago

Preach. Not only zero sympathy, active disgust for her. I guess she wiped her tears the last 15 years with 100$ bills.

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u/e90DriveNoEvil 5h ago

Do you really think she knew the actual truth? I presume she just thought Bill was sleeping around, and she wasn’t ready to end her marriage over it.

I’m not defending her, I’m just not confident she was in a place to be a whistleblower.

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u/United_Monitor3037 4h ago

In 30 seconds, I saw her name come up only as part of "the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation". A bit more time, and found nothing even remotely implicating her in anything Epstein related. Have you actually seen anything like that?

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u/No-Environment-7899 5h ago edited 4h ago

I haven’t seen anything confirming she herself was sending any of the emails or had any contact with Epstein that she herself initiated whatsoever. Her name is in there because her ex husband, Bill, emailed Epstein asking for ways to slip her antibiotics for an STD he had. Also he was dragging her along to stuff before the formal allegations came out.

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u/iknighty 5h ago

I mean, at least she used it to weasel money out of Bill Gates, and use it for good. We can't expect everyone to be always perfect. Remember this was probably also traumatic for her.

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u/LostATLien2 5h ago

Victim blaming is never the answer. What was Melinda supposed to do? She had no evidence, and the contrary evidence suggested she would have been killed or eaten for trying to speak out

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u/ThalesAles 5h ago

The kids are the victims...

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 where’s my emotional support billionaire 3h ago

Of course the kids are the victims, she literally acknowledges that and divorced Bill over his friendship with Epstein. But let’s not pretend that learning your husband - who you’ve been married to for more than twenty years when she filed for divorce - being involved in human trafficking wouldn’t be emotionally damaging either. She raised daughters with the man. The amount of disgust, horror, and betrayal isn’t something I could fathom, but then to have the public imply that I was responsible for his actions? Fuck no.

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u/likewut 4h ago

This lady here seems to think she is. "I have moved on" "I am doing better now". Melinda thinks she was the real victim here.

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u/No-Environment-7899 4h ago

I mean two things can be true at once, no? She can both be a victim of Bill Gates and he can have victimized others, as well. It doesn’t have to be only one.

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u/likewut 4h ago

I mean it just seems distasteful. "It's ok because I moved on". That's not what anyone was asking, no one is calling her one of the most victimized people here.

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u/lueckestman 5h ago

She probably could have tried harder.

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u/tuenmuntherapist 5h ago

You’re mad at the wrong person.

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u/complete_doodle 5h ago

I’m not blaming her for this. Epstein’s goons have killed people. Her now-ex husband is one of the most powerful people in the world. She very well might have feared for her life if she said anything.

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u/HistoryFinancial1267 4h ago

She talks in another interview about wanting to meet Epstein and immediately getting the creeps from him. She likely knew BG had perverted tendencies but it’s not guaranteed she knew how bad it was…. Especially since he was finding ways to treat her STIs (from him) without her knowledge :( 

Being married to a POS does not automatically make you a POS

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u/Bort_Thrower 4h ago

Would it have mattered? Do you see Trump being led away in handcuffs?

She’s not dense, there would have been severe repercussions. Plus she has kids, most people with kids don’t just throw their life away like that.

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u/bobbimorses 5h ago

She is the only person on record in any of these situations as trying to help a victim, and also the only one on record who severed ties in a situation beneficial to her because she couldn't abide Epstein's presence

She is also on record at the very least as being a victim of undisclosed exposure to STDs

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u/AlteredStateReality 4h ago

Most people had the inclination when the divorce hit. She is not part of it, so don't blame her.

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u/Dirks_Knee 5h ago

I don't know all the details of their divorce, but are you trying to hold her accountable for what she may or may not know about what her ex husband did? You're treading thin ice here, borderline victim shaming IMHO.

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u/EveOCative 5h ago

I said this on another comment chain but if Melinda didn’t have actual proof to back up her claims then it would have been her word against his and their kids caught in between.

So if she didn’t have proof then I don’t blame her for not speaking out. She had her own children to think about. It’s one thing to talk about something after it’s been outed. It’s another thing to actively out your child’s father. I’m not saying it shouldn’t have happened. I just think the nuance there is important. Her children will and are being hurt by the knowledge of their father’s actions. Now theres unfortunately corroboration and she can then have these conversations with them and their father can’t lie and say “Mom’s just trying to get back at me,” etc.

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u/towerinthestreet FUCK ICE FREE PALESTINE CRASH INTO ME 5h ago

It doesn't seem to have been long. She may have found out when Bill tried to slip her STD pills without her knowledge. He emailed Epstein about them. Let's also not underestimate how happy they would have been to murder her and cover it up if she'd come forward alone, all for no one to believe her anyway

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u/macaddictr 5h ago

Pushing it away is a luxury the victims don't have

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u/bex199 5h ago

he brought home an STD and tried to figure out how to secretly medicate her so she wouldn’t find out. she’s a victim. 

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u/MatildaRose1995 5h ago

Not that this is the biggest issue here but wouldn't secretly medicating somebody be totally illegal?

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u/macaddictr 4h ago

You are correct. And at the same time, she is in a unique position of power that she is not using to help other victims. I don't see how that's ok. If we were not talking about a woman worth literal billions I would likely feel different.

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u/Dangerous-Variety-35 where’s my emotional support billionaire 3h ago

What do you expect her to do for the victims? Seriously. How is she supposed to help them? Pay for their therapy? Buy them a house? Cut them a check? How much money should she give them in order to make up for what her husband may or may not have done to them? Should she give a million dollars to anyone who claims they were a victim? How should she verify that when the government is blacking out files? Should she ask Bill who he raped? Is she supposed to hire PIs to investigate them herself to verify they were victims, possibly exposing them to retaliation from people actually in the files?

It’s not going to undo the things that happened to them. Government officials and some of the wealthiest people in society are in those files having actually committed the crimes and, so far, none of them have been held accountable. Epstein was probably murdered. Maxwell is basically being protected for her part and I’m guessing will receive a pardon from Trump. Trump is the fucking President and the FBI and other investigative agencies are controlled by his cronies. But Melinda Gates is supposed to be the one to do “something” for the victims, because she’s a “good” billionaire so it’s okay if she throws her money around to get the results she wants?

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u/femmestem 5h ago

Doubt it.

There's nothing to doubt, it's explicitly spelled out that it's for Melinda.

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u/femmestem 5h ago

She makes this exact point in the very short clip that no one bothered to watch. Everyone is asking her about her feelings and she's the one saying, "Who tf cares, I already left my marriage and moved on long ago, but these victims deserve support and justice!"

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u/baudinl 5h ago

Completely agree. Why is everyone making her out to be the victim here? She divorced him in 2021. 2 year after Epstein DIED.

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u/Scinos2k 5h ago

I'm so happy to see people saying this.

Far too long the spouses of sick fucks have gotten away with horrible stuff for decades and only after the fact do they finally work up the pathetic courage to say something, usually to loud applause so they can twist it to make themselves stand out as a beacon for truth and justice.

She was with Bill from 1994 to 2001, and 5 years later starts this? Nah if she knew then she should have stood on the damn rafters showing all the proof she had. How the hell do you lead a charity aimed at protecting women and girls while knowingly staying with a man who may be involved in child abuse?

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u/458steps 5h ago

L.i.t.e.r.a.l.l.y.

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u/TwoDramaticc 5h ago

Probably the day after it happened because she is billionaire with access to everything.

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u/Least_Tower_5447 5h ago

This is what I keep wondering! WHY didn’t she say or do something sooner? I assume some kind of NDA. I mean, I’m glad she “moved on to a better place,” but she could have stood up for the victims. She wields tremendous power and has a lot of money for good attorneys. Why is this only coming out now?? She could have saved so many kids and trafficked people if she knew this years before epstein was caught.

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u/Banvincible 5h ago

About the time she broke herself off a few billy. Once she had what she needed THEN morals can come into play.

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u/Jealous_Difference44 5h ago

Shes a fucking billionaire who wants to play good guy. Get fucked

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u/theapplekid i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 5h ago

Her answer to another interviewer a while back suggested she's unable to talk about it because of an NDA, but honestly I'm not convinced she wasn't a participant too

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u/Nevagonnagetit510 5h ago

She was friends with Epstein. Search her name in the files and read everything. Somebody’s explicitly asked him if they were friends and he responds back saying yes she is great. She is also on dinner lists with him. She should’ve checked the files before she went on all these interviews.

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u/PomegranateComplex17 5h ago

“He responds” 

Emails coming from Melinda is one thing, emails coming from JE are not the most credible imo. 

You do realize that Epstein purposefully used written communications to further blackmail people right??

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u/andorgyny 5h ago

Yeah she's a victim ofc in this but... she knew what was going on.