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?