Bill Gates has revealed some of his affairs during his appearance before Congress during a closed-door meeting where two of the women he cheated on his wife with were named for the first time.
The Microsoft founder admitted to having extramarital affairs with Harvard-trained medical entrepreneur Dr. Alice Jacobs Nesselrodt and Russian nuclear scientist Karima Nigmatulina.
He made the admissions during a closed-door testimony before the U.S. House Oversight Committee, revealing that Jeffrey Epstein used knowledge of these affairs to attempt to blackmail him.
Gates told lawmakers that Epstein used information about his unfaithfulness and his looming divorce in an attempt to leverage him back into a relationship.
During an excruciating hearing earlier this month – the transcript of which was just released – Gates was asked deeply personal questions such as if he ever had a sexually transmitted disease.
Gates admitted it was ‘possible’ he confided those health fears to a mutual friend, though he pushed back on the exact contents of Epstein’s memos.
According to Gates, his ex-wife Melinda stayed with him despite admitting twice he had affairs with multiple women with the first confession being some time before 2010.
The hearing before the House Oversight Committee was to find out about Gates’s relationship with Epstein, which is seen as one of the key reasons Melinda divorced him in 2021 after 27 years of marriage.
Gates, 70, remained friends with Epstein for years even though the late pedophile was a registered sex offender at the time.
After Epstein’s suicide, Gates has repeatedly apologized for their friendship and told Congress during the June 10 appearance he wished they had never met.
During the interview, Gates admitted having three extramarital affairs, the first of which was with Dr Jacobs.
Gates said he couldn’t remember when he told Melinda about that relationship but it was before 2013 when he told her about the affair with Nigmatulina and Mila Antonova, a Russian bridge player.
In a bizarre comment, Gates told the committee that he still thought that Antonova, who was 30 years his junior, was a ‘serious bridge player’.
Gates told the committee that when he told Melinda about the two affairs in 2013 it was ‘very distressing to her’ but they didn’t talk about getting divorced at that point.
According to Gates, he first met Nigmatulina through her work on ‘disease modeling and nuclear fission work’.
At the time she was working for a company called TerraPower which Gates said he was a ‘substantial investor in’.
Gates confirmed that one of the times he had sex with Nigmatulina was in London and that it was referenced in the three million emails from Epstein that were released by the Department of Justice earlier this year.
