In a 2021 CBS interview in which she admitted her husband’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein had contributed to the end of their 27-year marriage, Melinda French Gates gave a cryptic reply when quizzed about claims that Bill Gates had been serially unfaithful to her.
‘Those are questions Bill needs to answer,’ she told interviewer Gayle King, in the process making clear such rumors were hardly wide of the mark. After all, their divorce papers reportedly referenced more than 20 affairs he’d had.
And now, after years of defensiveness about his private life, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder is indeed answering those ‘questions.’
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