{"id":1291837,"date":"2023-05-21T13:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/bill-gates-blackmailed-by-jeffrey-epstein-over-affair-with-russian-bridge-player\/1291837\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:10:18","slug":"bill-gates-blackmailed-by-jeffrey-epstein-over-affair-with-russian-bridge-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/bill-gates-blackmailed-by-jeffrey-epstein-over-affair-with-russian-bridge-player\/1291837\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates &#8216;Blackmailed&#8217; By Jeffrey Epstein Over Affair With Russian Bridge Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/bill-gates-blackmailed-jeffrey-epstein-over-affair-russian-bridge-player\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" alt=\"\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e3ce935a-b99f-476c-b9ea-044d32a0d08c\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/who%20is.PNG?itok=aeC8N1if\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Bill Gates &#8216;Blackmailed&#8217; By Jeffrey Epstein Over Affair With Russian Bridge Player<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Remember when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he &#8216;only had dinner&#8217; with Jeffrey Epstein?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">FLASHBACK: Bill Gates is asked if his ex-wife Melinda was warning him about Jeffrey Epstein sexually compromising him:<\/p>\n<p>Bill responded \u201cNo \u2014 I had dinner with him, and that&#8217;s all.\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xaVincPcAA\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/xaVincPcAA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1660330002213158912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out (ok, we&#8217;ve <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/bill-gates-addresses-jeffrey-epstein-connection-new-interview\" rel=\"noopener\">known for a while<\/a>) that&#8217;s a total lie &#8211; as the two also had a Russian bridge player in common, Mila Antonova.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-affair-russian-bridge-player-8b2022ff\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, Gates met Antonova in 2010 at a bridge competition, leading to an affair. Three years later, after Gates associate Boris Nikolic referred her to Jeffrey Epstein to help raise $500K for an online bridge business which failed to pan out, <strong>Epstein paid for her to attend coding classes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, <strong>Antonova &#8220;stayed briefly at an apartment in New York City provided by Epstein&#8221; <\/strong>but claims not to have met with the guy who paid for her education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then in 2017, the pedophile financier allegedly blackmailed Gates<\/strong> <strong>over the affair<\/strong> &#8211; demanding in an email that the Microsoft co-founder to reimburse him for Antonova&#8217;s education. Given the de minimis amount involved for both men, Gates interpreted this 2017 email as threat to expose his 2010 affair.<\/p>\n<p>So, poor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1517707521343082496?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\">boner-killer Bill<\/a> was actually an Epstein victim all along, you see, and everyone interviewed for the report says they knew nothing about Epstein&#8217;s pedophile sex-trafficking operation and was &#8216;disgusted with what he did,&#8217; etc.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/the%20gang.jpg?itok=hJTvooOh\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/the%20gang.jpg?itok=hJTvooOh\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\"><figcaption><em>Jes Staley, Lawrence Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, Boris Nikolic<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But in March of 2013, long before the two had thrown out their BFF bracelets, <strong>they were hanging out at the house of Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland, then chair of the Nobel Peace Prize committee <\/strong>where the pair allegedly discussed &#8221;\u00a0the security situation in Afghanistan as part of Mr. Gates\u2019 work on polio eradication,&#8221; according to a spokeswoman for the billionaire. We&#8217;re sure.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>While he was working on the charitable fund, Epstein met in 2013 with Gates and Norwegian officials who were visitors to Epstein\u2019s townhouse. <strong>Epstein told one former Gates Foundation employee that he knew the Norwegians, and could help Gates win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eradicate polio.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what else is contained in the report (some known, some unknown).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Starting in 2011, Gates had more than a half dozen meetings scheduled with Epstein<\/strong>, including dinners at Epstein\u2019s New York townhouse, documents show. &#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Gates flew on Epstein&#8217;s &#8216;lolita express&#8217; plane from New Jersey to Florida in March, 2013. &#8220;<strong>That same month the two men met in France with an official on the Nobel Peace Prize committee<\/strong>.&#8221; (that official being its chair, Thorbj\u00f8rn Jagland)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><em>While he was working on the charitable fund, Epstein met in 2013 with Gates and Norwegian officials who were visitors to Epstein\u2019s townhouse. <strong>Epstein told one former Gates Foundation employee that he knew the Norwegians, and could help Gates win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eradicate polio.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>In 2012, Epstein pitched Gates on a failed investment in a multibillion-dollar, JPMorgan-run charitable fund<\/strong> with a minimum contribution of $100 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deal went sideways. In messages to <strong>Jes Staley and Mary Erdoes<\/strong>, Epstein essentially coached the JPMorgan execs on how to pitch the fund to Gates&#8217; team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In essence this [fund] will allow Bill to have access to higher quality people , investment , allocation , governance without upsetting either his marriage or the sensitvites of the current foundation employees,&#8221; Epstein wrote on Aug. 16, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Epstein wrote: &#8220;Bill is terribly frustrated. He woud! like to boost some of the things that are working without taking away from thoses that are not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks later on Oct. 2, Epstein sent another email to Staley and Erdoes criticizing a JPMorgan presentation. &#8220;the presentation , is not tailored to bill.. He is the only person , the only one, that counts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><em>The charitable fund never got off the ground. \u201cThe firm didn\u2019t need him as a client,\u201d a JPMorgan spokesman said of Epstein. \u201cThe firm didn\u2019t need him for introductions. Knowing what we know today, we wish we had never done business with him.\u201d A spokesman for the bank said Erdoes declined to comment. A lawyer for Staley, who is no longer at JPMorgan, didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment. Staley has previously said he regrets his friendship with Epstein. -WSJ<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">But &#8211; given that this deal fell through in 2012 or so, and the two were hobnobbing at the Nobel Peace Price Committee Chairman&#8217;s house in 2013, it&#8217;s obvious that the two mended fences and moved on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\" data-type=\"paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/gates%20epstein1a.png?itok=-k9vheFV\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/gates%20epstein1a.png?itok=-k9vheFV\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"5236d167-d7fb-43fe-857f-88ba3f98f033\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"289\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/gates%20epstein1a.png?itok=-k9vheFV\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 05\/21\/2023 &#8211; 16:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/bill-gates-blackmailed-jeffrey-epstein-over-affair-russian-bridge-player\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bill Gates 'Blackmailed' By Jeffrey Epstein Over Affair With Russian Bridge Player\" rel=\"noopener\">Zerohedge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates &#8216;Blackmailed&#8217; By Jeffrey Epstein Over Affair With Russian Bridge Player Remember when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he &#8216;only had dinner&#8217; with Jeffrey&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-5q45","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}