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There are no crimes being alleged here, just an affair with an adult woman, which isn't illegal, so nothing you could charge Bill with, nevermind Melinda. From Forbes: "No documents allege Gates was involved with wrongdoing in connection with Epstein or had knowledge of the financier’s alleged sex trafficking".
The only thing it does contain that could be criminal is an allegation that Bill requested antibiotics to give to Melinda to treat an STD without her knowledge. But this is just an allegation in an email that Epstein wrote to himself, for some reason, after Gates had cut contact with him, seemingly from the perspective of "Boris". Presumably Gates' advisor Boris Nikolic.
The email is both to and from Epstein, but says in one part that if he and Gates were to trade places he would have said "Boris, this is not your fault" and given him a house and 5 years' pay. Then it says "...what I did receive however was an unfriendly strongly worded email, telling me how employable I am and that I should not look to you for any significant financial help in the future, TO add insult to the injury you them implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis." (No such emails from Gates are in the Epstein files). Then a third email also to himself saying he was quitting. (Nikolic appears to have continued to work with Gates for years after that.) Honestly it doesn't seem very credible to me that Nikolic, a Harvard trained science advisor for Gates, would have asked Jeffery Epstein to write such an email to Gates on his behalf. Kinda seems like weird shit Epstein made up because he was angry about being dumped by Gates who he had been angling to get a bunch of money from as part of a philanthropy deal (Epstein promised Gates he could get a bunch of funds donated for his foundation, but said he wanted a kickback out of any funding he secured.)