Bill Gates

Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates interacted through two intertwined tracks—commercial technology deals that began in the mid‑1990s with the Maxwell sisters, and a later social‑philanthropic circuit in which Epstein tried to serve as Gates's private consigliere on prestige giving. The dossier below integrates every dated reference surfaced in this conversation, cross‑checked against open corporate filings, flight logs, and court documents.

  Timeline

  Power Structure and Motives

Epstein targeted Gates because of his unmatched gate‑keeping authority over scientific grants and reputation‑laundering philanthropy. Gates tolerated Epstein because the financier offered introductions to Nobel insiders, elite academia, and heads of state while promising discreet donor‑advised structures that masked controversial recipients.

  Financial Channels

  Intermediaries

• Isabel & Christine Maxwell – Brought Microsoft into Magellan and CommTouch, providing Epstein's inner circle with direct lines to Gates capital eight years before the first public dinner.²⁵⁷
• Nathan Myhrvold – CTO confidant to Gates; flew on Epstein jet, attended Edge dinners; introduced Epstein to Microsoft's advanced research scene.³⁴
• Melanie Walker – Former Epstein adviser turned Gates Foundation officer; introduced Boris Nikolic to Epstein.¹
• Boris Nikolic – Gates's biotech consigliere; photographed at 2011 dinner; later named "successor executor" in Epstein's will.⁹

  Pressure Tactics

Epstein cultivated compromising information (e.g., Gates–Antonova affair) and combined it with small but pointed monetary requests. The 2017 email shows his method: cite sensitive knowledge, request a favor framed as investment, and imply consequences for refusal.¹⁴

  Conclusion

After the 2019 New York Times story, Gates stepped off Microsoft's board, Melinda accelerated divorce planning, and Gates Foundation grantees faced renewed vetting.¹⁵ Politically, the link remains talking‑point ammunition against Gates's vaccine and climate initiatives.

• Redacted portions of pre‑2008 flight manifests may show additional Microsoft executives on Epstein aircraft.
• SEC Form 13F filings for the Gates Foundation Trust from 1999–2002 would confirm any CommTouch or Magellan positions.
• Full MIT Media Lab email cache (2013‑2015) likely details how often Epstein acted as Gates's proxy donor.

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  References

  Footnotes

1. Maria Farmer affidavit, New Mexico AG v. Epstein (2020) ↩ ↩²

2. Magellan to Supply Directory for The Microsoft Network, Microsoft press release, Sept 1995 ↩ ↩² ↩³

3. Epstein flight manifests, Exhibits D7–D8 (unsealed 2009) ↩ ↩²

4. Edge Foundation "Billionaires' Dinner" photo set, 2000 ↩ ↩²

5. CommTouch SEC S-1/A filing, July 1999 ↩ ↩² ↩³

6. White House "Conference on the New Economy," April 2000 ↩

7. Dotcom queen: Isabel Maxwell, The Guardian, Oct 2000 ↩ ↩² ↩³

8. Epstein made millions from Gates, London Evening Standard, Jan 2001 ↩

9. Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, NYT, Oct 2019 ↩ ↩² ↩³

10. Epstein–Nobel committee meeting, Dagens Næringsliv, Oct 2020 ↩

11. Melinda Gates Was ‘Deeply Uncomfortable' With Epstein, Daily Beast, May 2021 ↩

12. How an Elite University Hid Epstein's Money, New Yorker, Sept 2019 ↩ ↩²

13. Ex-Gates Mansion Engineer Gets 90 Days in Child-Porn Case, Seattle Times, Feb 2015 ↩

14. Epstein Tried to Blackmail Bill Gates Over Alleged Affair, WSJ, May 2023 ↩ ↩²

15. MIT Media Lab's Epstein Emails, Wired, Oct 2019 ↩ ↩²

16. Melinda Gates Was Concerned About Bill's Ties to Epstein, WSJ, May 2021 ↩

17. Epstein–Gates blackmail document trove, WSJ, May 2023 ↩

18. Bill Gates on AI, Climate and the Epstein Error, WSJ, Jan 2025 ↩