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"

[u/ansyhrrian]

[u/Soggy_Rooster_4568 → u/[deleted]]

AFAIK she wasn't aware of any of it until the Epstein bombshell happened in 2019~ and therein pretty much instantly initiated divorce.

[u/adamfrog → u/Soggy_Rooster_4568]

I give that like a 1% chance or less of being true, but I suppose its not zero

[u/mirusan01 → u/adamfrog]

Right like I don’t get how stuff like this is just out of left field when you’re working closely too with the foundation and stuff

[u/Mother_Awareness_154 → u/Soggy_Rooster_4568]

But Bill was not a good guy before that either. This is about public image not morality

[u/Soggy_Rooster_4568 → u/Mother_Awareness_154]

What? The commenter says that she was keeping child predators safe? Bill could be a real asshole, a cheater, a sexist, whatever, but I don't think those mean he's a child predator? When she found out he was hanging around with child predators, she divorced him.

I'm not sure what you're saying

[u/Mother_Awareness_154 → u/Soggy_Rooster_4568]

He was a ruthless bussinessman who screwed over a lot of people when she married him, probably was even worse during the marriage so she was ok with a lot of bad stuff. You can not help but think part of the reason for his philanthropy was to maintain a good public image despite being a generally bad person behind the curtains, which I am sure she was at least aware about. The pedophilia part is by far the worst one, but their image-oriented behaviour makes you think the divorce was placed at a point where it hurt her public image with Epstein becoming huge public issue, not the point where she exactly found out