Bill Gates provided testimony on June 10 to the House Oversight and Reform committee regarding his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. During the testimony, Gates admitted to having multiple affairs, including with two Russian women identified as Mila Antonova and Karima Nigmatulina.
According to a transcript released Tuesday, Gates, 70, denied any sexual misconduct. He stated that Epstein may have been aware of his affairs and potentially considered blackmailing him. Gates also revealed that he may have communicated to a mutual friend of his and Epstein's a fear of contracting a sexually transmitted disease from one of these encounters.
Gates informed the committee that he disclosed his affairs to his wife, Melinda Gates, in 2013. He described this disclosure as "very distressing to her," but indicated that they did not discuss divorce at that time. The couple ultimately divorced in 2021.
Additionally, Gates publicly admitted for the first time to a third affair with a medical entrepreneur named Dr. Alice Jacobs Nesselrodt. Gates commented to the committee that he still considered Antonova, who was 30 years his junior, to be a "serious bridge player."