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In August 2021, several news outlets reported that Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and a billionaire philanthropist, had acknowledged that on several occasions he had met with the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and had described those meetings as a huge mistake. Articles to that effect were published by The Wall Street Journal, BBC News, The Guardian and The Washington Post. Those reports accurately described Gates' remarks, and as such we are issuing a rating of Correct Attribution. In a September 2019 interview with The Wall Street Journal, Gates acknowledged that he had met Epstein, who was found dead in a New York jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. However, Gates insisted I didn’t have any business relationship or friendship with him. In October 2019, The New York Times reported that: In 2008, around three years before Gates first met Epstein, the New York financier had already been convicted of, and imprisoned for, soliciting prostitution from a minor. Gates described his meetings with Epstein as a huge mistake during the course of an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, on Aug. 5, 2021. In it, Cooper broached the subject of Gates' high-profile divorce from his wife Melinda, which was announced in May 2021, and finalized in August. The relevant section of that interview can be watched below. The following is an excerpted transcript:
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