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usonian

(27,151 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 12:10 AM 16 hrs ago

Bill Gates names three women he had affairs with in Epstein testimony about blackmail fears

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-house-oversight-committee-b3002008.html

Microsoft co-founder told House Oversight Committee he believes disgraced financier was plotting to extort him, newly-released transcript reveals

Bill Gates has named three women he had affairs with, claiming Jeffrey Epstein wanted to blackmail him over the infidelities.

The Microsoft co-founder told the House Oversight Committee the pedophile had never succeeded in extorting him but that “it looks like Mr Epstein’s brainstorming was going in that direction.”

In a newly-published transcript (PDF) of Gates’ testimony to the panel on June 10, the tech billionaire admitted to affairs with two Russian women - bridge player Mila Antonova and nuclear physicist Karima Nigmatulina - and with medical entrepreneur Dr Alice Jacobs Nesselrodt.

He denied ever witnessing or participating in any sexual misconduct in Epstein’s company but acknowledged that he may have unwittingly found himself “in the presence of victims” after being introduced to him in 2011 by his former employee Dr Boris Nikolic, a mutual friend.


Gates said he believed Nikolic may have told Epstein about two of the affairs.


“I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit"
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Bill Gates names three women he had affairs with in Epstein testimony about blackmail fears (Original Post) usonian 16 hrs ago OP
Do all rich turn to scum Whip-poor-will 12 hrs ago #1
A curse on humanity is abused, often unearned, "privilege" usonian 7 hrs ago #2
Why is it almost always Russians? tinrobot 6 hrs ago #3
I swear, Putin and Bibi must have the REAL Trump videos. usonian 6 hrs ago #6
That's an exceptionally lame story, Bill. yardwork 6 hrs ago #4
Russian, you say? Prairie Gates 6 hrs ago #5
Are mere infidelities with adult women sufficient to enable blackmail... harumph 6 hrs ago #7
I agree. Affairs such as these would barely make headlines Buckeyeblue 5 hrs ago #8
If Bill had sex with a seventeen year old whom he thought was older, harumph 3 hrs ago #17
Yes. And I think has been like this for a long time. Buckeyeblue 1 hr ago #18
Back in the USSR. Kid Berwyn 5 hrs ago #9
Kompromat gets you the Kash and Obedience. usonian 5 hrs ago #10
Leverage Kid Berwyn 5 hrs ago #11
There's a lot of Russian connection to the Epstein saga. Boomerproud 4 hrs ago #12
Holding of the Hand Kid Berwyn 27 min ago #19
I used to like him MustLoveBeagles 4 hrs ago #13
Some of us have hated him forever. usonian 4 hrs ago #14
I liked him for the charity work he did, I didn't know about what you mentioned MustLoveBeagles 3 hrs ago #15
He was all tyrant before charity. usonian 3 hrs ago #16

usonian

(27,151 posts)
2. A curse on humanity is abused, often unearned, "privilege"
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 09:40 AM
7 hrs ago

One's whiteness, wealth, parents, title, clerical collar, whatever, tempt one to take advantage of others in their charge.

Leaders earn the right to serve others.

Quoting Daisaku Ikeda, late President of Soka Gakkai Buddhism:


Concern for young people is what separates a true leader from a despot. Despots manipulate young people. No matter how noble their messages, they only see youth as resources to exploit to satisfy their own purposes.


The difference between a leader and a tyrant is that a leader works hard for the sake of everyone else, while a tyrant makes others work hard for him.


That sure sounds familiar!


https://www.daisakuikeda.org/sub/quotations/theme/leadership.html

usonian

(27,151 posts)
6. I swear, Putin and Bibi must have the REAL Trump videos.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 09:58 AM
6 hrs ago

Some prefer blondes, so Putin was the supply. All three are monsters.



harumph

(3,532 posts)
7. Are mere infidelities with adult women sufficient to enable blackmail...
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 10:28 AM
6 hrs ago

for people of Gate's class? Color me skeptical. Maybe low value blackmail. Methinks you need something really scandalous. I think there's more to this story than the prosaic explanation - that Bill stumbled into a honeypot. No doubt this is the anodyne narrative that was told to Melinda.

Buckeyeblue

(6,481 posts)
8. I agree. Affairs such as these would barely make headlines
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 10:51 AM
5 hrs ago

Especially in the last 25-30 years. The bigger problem is that he continued to be friends with someone who was known to have sex with minors. Why would someone in Gates position do that?

harumph

(3,532 posts)
17. If Bill had sex with a seventeen year old whom he thought was older,
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 01:14 PM
3 hrs ago

- that would be enough for Epstein to own him. Surprise Bill! Statutory rape! That is a "charitable" explanation of his long contact and it ain't that charitable. On the less charitable side, it's pretty clear that some of these guys were raping younger children. These supposed geniuses - led around by their perverse desires and self esteem deficits. I think our ruling class is chock-a-block with this type of degenerate.

Kid Berwyn

(25,484 posts)
9. Back in the USSR.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 10:54 AM
5 hrs ago

Craig Unger pegs the Russia-Epstein angle.



From Russia(to Jeffrey), with Love

The Epstein saga is even more interesting when you look at the Russian women who helped run his operation. Here's a look at Svetlana Pozhidaeva.


Craig Unger
Jul 21, 2025

EXCERPT...

Raised in a Moscow apartment complex built for staffers of the NKVD, the Stalinist precursor of the KGB, Pozhidaeva was educated at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), the prestigious academy run by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is a training ground for Russian diplomats and intelligence officials. Reputed to be the most elite university in the country, MGIMO has been dubbed the “Harvard of Russia” by Henry Kissinger because it has trained so many figures in Russia’s political, intellectual, and financial elite.

According to the Italian edition of Maxim, Lana gave up a promising tennis career at the age of sixteen to become the youngest freshman at MGIMO, where she graduated with the equivalent of summa cum laude, having mastered, along the way, French, English, Italian, and Spanish, as if she were on course to join the Foreign Ministry.

But then her career took a bizarre turn. Her stellar academic credentials notwithstanding, Pozhidaeva somehow ended up becoming a model who was represented by MC2, a modeling agency owned by Epstein-pimp-to-be Jean-Luc Brunel. Known as “le fantôme” (the ghost), Brunel was the subject of a 1988 piece that aired on CBS’s 60 Minutes in which several young models accused him of drugging their drinks, groping them sexually, and rape. The CBS reporter, Craig Pyes, told Michael Gross. the author of Model: The Ugly Truth of Beautiful Women, that Brunel “ranks among the sleaziest people in the fashion industry. We’re talking about a conveyor belt, not a casting couch. Hundreds of girls were not only harassed but molested.”

SNIP...

“What was most striking about Pozhidaeva was that she had a terrific academic career in Russia and then threw it away on something completely unrelated. She attended, as she says, a top college in Russia, like Stanford in the United States,” said Shvets. “And she was a straight‑­ A student. This is important to understand. She sacrificed four years and then two more years for a master’s degree. It’s an achievement.”

But suddenly after this, Shvets noted, “She says, ‘Fuck it all. Fuck my previous six years. Fuck everything I was doing.’ I mean, it’s­ amazing— it just does not happen in real life.”

“Of course, we know what Epstein was doing with the ladies. But in this particular case,” Shvets told me, “Epstein takes her and introduces her to renowned American and international scientists.”

CONTINUES...

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Kompromat is king, like Ka$h.

Kid Berwyn

(25,484 posts)
19. Holding of the Hand
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 04:15 PM
27 min ago


Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump

Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.


By KYLE CHENEY and NAHAL TOOSI
Politico, 11/12/2025

Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.

“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.

In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.

“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

Continues…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919

MustLoveBeagles

(18,308 posts)
13. I used to like him
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 12:34 PM
4 hrs ago

Even if he didn't abuse children himself, I think he knows more than he's saying. It's a shame he turned out to be a douchbag.

usonian

(27,151 posts)
14. Some of us have hated him forever.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 12:42 PM
4 hrs ago

Starting maybe with him lecturing the Homebrew Computer Club on "stealing software" when it is said that the pulled source code for BASIC out of someone else's dumpster.

But, I won't ramble for hours.

Today.

Check the video of his testimony to congress or DOJ on sabotaging java and other things. Looked like a dead fish.

MustLoveBeagles

(18,308 posts)
15. I liked him for the charity work he did, I didn't know about what you mentioned
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 12:46 PM
3 hrs ago

I'll look into it. Thanks 👍

usonian

(27,151 posts)
16. He was all tyrant before charity.
Thu Jun 25, 2026, 12:47 PM
3 hrs ago

ETA. The movie "Antitrust" with Tim Robbins and Ryan Phillipe is based on his Bond Villain real life character.


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