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How Jeffrey Epstein Exploited Bill Gates’ ‘Hellscape’ Marriage

The Daily Beast

June 22, 2026

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How Jeffrey Epstein Exploited Bill Gates’ ‘Hellscape’ Marriage

Reuters / Getty ImagesA bestselling author has revealed Jeffrey Epstein’s chilling presence in the marriage of Bill and Melinda French Gates.In a new column for his Substack, HOWL, Michael Wolff detailed Epstein’s front-row seat to the unraveling of the then-world’s richest couple and beloved philanthropists—largely because of the presence of the notorious pedophile himself.“Gates, at the age of 59 in 2014, had two challenges: Turning the Gates Foundation into a transformative global power—not just to give away money, but in order to top himself, to grow and expand it to have as much impact on the world as Microsoft itself. And dealing with, or ridding himself of, his personal domestic nightmare,” Wolff, 72, wrote on Tuesday. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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