The House Oversight Committee releases a transcript of Bill Gates’s testimony in which Bill Gates admits three extramarital affairs and names two women while denying explicit blackmail by Jeffrey Epstein.Bill Gates says he met with Jeffrey Epstein to pursue fundraising for the Gates Foundation, acknowledges he knew of Epstein’s criminal record and says he regrets the contacts he maintained until he ended them in 2014.Emails and draft messages from the Department of Justice files show Jeffrey Epstein contemplated using a mix of true and false allegations about Bill Gates’s private life to seek payments or leverage, and they reference expenses tied to one woman identified as Mila Antonova.The committee also releases testimony from
Lesley Groff, who says she never witnessed illegal conduct but describes
Jeffrey Epstein as a master manipulator who kept abusive behavior separate from his public persona, and investigators continue to probe the full scope of Epstein’s influence.