Bill Gates Hoped Jeffrey Epstein Could Help Him Schmooze His Way to Nobel Peace Prize

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Bill Gates Hoped Jeffrey Epstein Could Help Him Schmooze His Way to Nobel Peace Prize: Report
Tom McKay 5 hrs ago

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates appears to have hopelessly lost control of his efforts to do damage control on his once-budding bromance with fellow billionaire and notorious serial child abuser Jeffrey Epstein.

Gates and his spokespeople have vehemently denied that he and the financier, who died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking of dozens of minors, were ever friends or had any kind of business relationship. But story after story has emerged detailing a years-long connection entailing dozens of visits from 2011-2014, which reportedly infuriated his soon-to-be ex-spouse Melinda Gates and may have been a factor in their impending divorce—and the hits aren’t stopping. According to the Daily Beast, now a former staffer at Gates’ charitable foundation says Gates was attempting to leverage Epstein’s social network to sleaze his way into a Nobel Prize.

Epstein infamously cultivated a large circle of scientists, academics, researchers, tech elites, and other intellectual types, inviting them to lavish get-togethers and showering some with donations—perhaps just to entertain his disturbing scientific ponderings and indulge his ego, or perhaps in part because affluent, well-connected friends could help shield his crimes from public scrutiny. Gates has publicly cited a large number of rich people and others with connections to them in Epstein’s circle as the reason they mingled at all, hoping to lure donors to the Gates Foundation, despite Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting a minor being widely known. The ex-staffer, who told the Daily Beast he was part of a team in charge of tracking “reputational risks” to Gates, said that Gates’ motivations were far more egotistical. He wanted one of the most prestigious awards a person can receive:

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This person said members of the foundation’s communications team were alerted to Gates’ relationship with Epstein and were told it “was a maneuver to try to get himself a Nobel Peace Prize.” They said the tech mogul had even kept some employees on call on prize day in years past just in case he was awarded the distinction. ... “He [Gates] thought that Jeffrey would be able to help him, that he would know the right people, or some kind of way to massage things, so he could get the Nobel Peace Prize, which is what Bill wants more than anything else in the world,” the staffer said.

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