The U.S. Department of Justice released the latest batch of investigative documents on the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on January 30. The total, which totals more than 3 million pages, also includes about 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, as part of a disclosure effort under the Epstein Dossier Transparency Act passed by Congress last year. Documentary sources include multiple different cases and investigative leads spanning more than two decades.
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Bill Gates’ ex-wife Melinda seems to have completely broken off with her ex-husband due to the newly disclosed Epstein documents.
The documents allege that Bill Gates once asked his ex-wife Melinda to help him take antibiotics to treat a sexually transmitted disease he contracted from a Russian girl.
Melinda, 61, who divorced Gates in 2021, said she felt deeply for the victims of the Epstein case and believed that relevant people, including her ex-husband, should provide explanations.
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On Tuesday, she said in a podcast ⬇️
"I think we're going through a reckoning as a society, right? No girl should be put in the position that they were put in by Epstein and the people who surrounded him," he said.
She added: "It's heartbreaking. I remember when I was the age of those girls and I remember when my daughters were their age.
"So, for me, it's very sad every time these details come out, right? Because it brings back some very, very painful memories from my marriage," Melinda continued.
She said that she had chosen to stay away from all that and move towards a new stage of life. "And those questions that have not yet been answered belong to the parties involved."
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This is not the first time Melinda has viewed Bill Gates’ relationship with Epstein as an “unacceptable red line.”
As early as when the two divorced in 2021, she privately told her lawyer that Gates's multiple meetings with Epstein and his repeated changes in public rhetoric were one of the important reasons for her decision to end the marriage.
The Wall Street Journal later revealed that Melinda had begun legal preparations for divorce as early as 2019.
Bill Gates, for his part, responded quickly after the documents were released. His spokesman told the Daily Mail that the relevant accusations were "ridiculous and completely untrue," adding that the documents only reflected Epstein's "vindictive smear campaign" because he could no longer maintain a relationship with Gates.
Gates himself has denied any inappropriate behavior with Epstein for many years, emphasizing that the meetings between the two parties were "group settings" and there was no personal contact.
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Prior to this, on January 31, a hot post on Twitter sparked discussion.
The post pointed out that Claire Anne Stroll, the wife of F1 Aston Martin team boss Lawrence Stroll, was mentioned in the latest documents related to the Epstein case.
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According to the information compiled in the post, multiple email exchanges between Claire Anne and Epstein’s former partner Ghislaine Maxwell appeared in the document. Among them, the email account is displayed as "G.Max", which is speculated by some netizens to be Maxwell himself or one of his common email addresses. It should be noted that this speculation has not been officially confirmed.
Some netizens noticed that in some emails, Maxwell maintained frequent correspondence with many celebrities. The Twitter post also mentioned that the First Lady of the United States had exchanged emails with Maxwell many times, in which Maxwell called him "Sweet pea." This detail also comes from the content of the document itself, without further explanation.
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Another email from Claire Anne shows she was on a private jet with "someone" at one point. Since the time of the email matched Maxwell's itinerary records, some netizens speculated that the traveler might be Maxwell, but the document did not directly name him.
Multiple emails between February and March 2002 indicate that Maxwell discussed a trip with Claire Anne. The content of the email shows that the Stroll family was invited to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, but was initially unable to make the trip for some reason.
Follow-up emails showed that they later appeared to have taken a private jet to the relevant location. Based on these emails, some netizens believe that the Stroll family may have visited the island, but there is also a lack of direct evidence to confirm this.
Although more than 3 million pages were released this time, the U.S. Department of Justice acknowledged that there are still about 5.2 million pages of relevant material that have not yet been reviewed and released. This means there may be new clues and revelations in the future.
The Justice Department has deployed hundreds of attorneys to continue reviewing the remaining files, which is expected to take weeks or longer.