Ok but if she knew about it and it's why the divorce why didn't she say shit, unless I'm missing something?
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Their divorce process started when their youngest daughter turned 18, so it might be the usual "sticking to a toxic wasteland of a marriage for the children" delusion.
She may have had to sign an NDA for the divorce to go through.
Dunno why y'all are blaming her for shit. She wasn't the one involved with Epstein.
For a lot of (if not most) people, knowing about the heinous shit happening and doing nothing about it (at minimum trying to go public) is an issue nearly as bad as actually participating.
And maybe people have forgotten how to use their critical thinking skills first before jumping on the blame bandwagon.
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Not blaming,and an NDA to cover illegal shit is enforceable?
I'm not from USA, I don't know how NDAs work there?
No an NDA can't cover withholding information about a crime. Asking someone to not divulge information under an NDA pertaining to a crime, is in itself a crime/an unenforceable nda
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America is covered with them. Iirc California is the only state to have banned them.
People aren't blaming her for anything. If all she knew was that she was being cheated on because she suddenly got an STD, that's one thing. What they're saying is, if she knew about Bill going to Epstein to rape children, then she'd be complicit.
An NDA doesn't prevent you from reporting crimes to the relevant authorities. This woman was very much part of the system. She deserves credit for getting out but she's by no means an angel.
We don't know if she had any information about crimes, or whether she went to the authorities ffs
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I believe that she divorced him after the Epstein thing first blew up and it was because of that.
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Because money?
Holy shit some of these comments are fucking gross and victim-blamey in here. Why the fuck is Melinda the target here any differently than the victims themselves who didn't speak up until later?
I think we all know why none did, just as none of you would in all reality: fear, and who would actually listen without proof?
See the #MeToo movement, how that backfired for so many women, let alone trying to take down one of the richest people of all time. Also for those who paid attention, Melinda had long heavily hinted at this shit.
I think most people's issue is that all she's ever done is hint, and now that there is less reason than ever to hint, that's all she continues to do.
This case needs someone to step up, corroborate the documents, and speak out so some of these things can be unredacted. She, as a billionaire, is best equipped, but chose to keep hinting on a podcast tour instead, and in the current climate, that makes people suspicious.
I am just speculating here, like everyone else is, but she is probably just hinting because she doesn't know shit.
"My ex-husband, billionaire tech mogul Bill Gates, used to hang out with Jeff Epstein. Bill would occasionally meet up with him" is the extent should could say and prove. The rest is hearsay.
That's a bad argument, lots of people end up dead
Yup. If she would have went to the press without evidence, she would not have been believed. Still today people here are very quick to call someone a conspiracy theorist, including probably most of the people in this thread. They would have been attacking her. Not a single doubt in my mind about that.
So at the same time as people say someone should speak up, they keep attacking people who does, unless their sources are accepted as evidence by official media sources.
I dont blame her for being quiet, not at all.
Not just not believed, but she could have easily been hit with a libel/slander suit if there wasn't any evidence.
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Forget Melinda Gates. I was subjected to 2 minutes of her garbage NPR interview yesterday before I was able to skip it; it's fucking crazy that this woman is being allowed to do a goddamn press tour about this, like she's the main character. Oh, are you sad that Bill was a total piece of shit and you did nothing? Go be sad on your own time, on the miniscule chance you're somehow not a total psycho you can go find a therapist, I'm sure you can afford one. Stop hogging media time to wash your own bullshit image. I wonder how much she donated to get them to have her on.
I'm sure she can wipe away her tears with some bars of gold
Literally, get a bar of gold, melt it down, press it into gold foil tissues, carve another gold bar into a tissue box, and wipe her tears. She could spend $100,000 on doing that every day for the next 800 years before running out of money.
Like if she had something genuine to add, that'd be something. You know, corroborate a victim's story, make a call to action, "he should be in prison," even "here's something I'm doing to help" would still be reputation laundering but it would be something. She literally just went on to say (probably lie) that she didn't know about it and it makes her so sad. Fucking billionaires, fuck.
Also, even ignoring the Epstein stuff, she stuck with Gates while he was doing a lot of really unethical things at Microsoft. She either liked him, or liked his billions enough to stick with him for a long time. She doesn't get a pass because she started spending the billions she got from him in the divorce for charity. Where did those billions come from? She was standing by his side as he raked them in by illegally using his monopoly to crush competitors to Microsoft and threaten Linux / Linux users with patent infringement, lawsuits, etc.
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Oh look, another rich asshole who knew what was happening but didn't tell us.
Fuck these people and fuck their families. We should be taking their wealth by force.
Billionaire philanthropist has the same ring as underaged women
We should be taking their wealth back by force
FTFY ;)
So she is very much suggesting here that he did go to pedo island and that he did have sex there...
Not that it surprises me, but... I've hated Microsoft since it's founding, it's been one evil fucking company, but Bill Gates going down as a pedophile isn't on my 2026 bingo card.
Edit: Do we have any more sources on this? I somehow find it hard to believe
Yes, but he donated a fraction of his fortune to a set of charities chosen to maximize their PR value! That totally absolves him!
Not even purely for PR value. One of his foundation's causes is providing free medicines to third-world countries -- to stave off their saying "fuck patents" and producing the drugs for themselves, thereby helping to erode intellectual property rights.
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Or she was just talking in general terms that he has some … issues.
I would hate to find out that she knew he was a pedo.
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Can't be a philanthropist and a billionaire at the same time, fucking media know this
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I remember several years ago some incredibly cringey puff piece video came out about Gates. He must have financed it, in fact. It was aimed at 'humanizing' him, and painting him as a genius polymath philanthropist. My family was mad at me for calling out the blatant bullshit. I'm glad everyone is finally getting to see that there are no good billionaires.
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Dude gave her an std and she still won't tell the world everything she knows?! The fuck.
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All I’m hearing is “she fucking knew what was going on and didn’t say shit”. IANAL, but does that equal an accessory or obstruction charge or what?
Bill probably had her tied up in court to say nothing or else she wouldnt get this or that(money) from his marriage.
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