News from the financial community on May 22 According to Phoenix Network Technology News, a person familiar with the matter said that Bill Gates met a Russian bridge player Mila Antonova around 2010 and had an affair with him. The incident was learned by Jeffrey Epstein, who then appeared to use what he knew to threaten Gates.
Epstein is a financial mogul who has interacted with dignitaries, celebrities, business and academia. He was accused of organizing underage girls to trade sex with them, sexually assaulting women, and even suspected of human trafficking. In July 2019, he was arrested and charged with two counts of sex trafficking. In August of the same year, he died in a New York prison, which the medical examiner determined was suicide.
It is reported that Gates was threatened by Epstein for an extramarital affair
According to foreign media sources, Epstein met Antonova in 2013, when she was seeking funding to launch an online bridge tutorial platform. Later, Epstein paid her to attend a software programming bootcamp.
People familiar with the matter said it was because Epstein failed to convince Gates to join the multibillion-dollar charitable fund he was trying to build. In 2017, Epstein emailed Gates threatening to reimburse him for the tuition he had originally paid for Antonova's software programming bootcamp.
According to sources interviewed, the fund was supposed to be a way for Epstein to rebuild his reputation after being forced to register as a sex offender and admitted in 2008 to soliciting and buying minors for prostitution.
This isn't the first time Gates has been accused of having an affair, after it was revealed that Gates had an affair with a female Microsoft employee. In 2021, Gates announced his divorce from his wife Melinda.
It is understood that Gates has met with Epstein several times since 2011 to discuss philanthropy. Gates said he met with Epstein in hopes of securing billions of dollars for global health programs, but later described the interaction as a "huge mistake."
Gates' ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, also thought the meetings were a mistake. In an interview discussing the couple's divorce, Melinda said she made it clear to Gates that she "didn't like (Gates) meeting Jeffrey Epstein." Melinda revealed that she met Epstein once, "to see who this man was" and found him to be "abominable" and "evil embodied."
Tesla CEO Musk is involved in the American rich sex trade
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently received a court summons from the U.S. Virgin Islands to provide documents about Epstein's sex trafficking case. Whether Musk is involved with Epstein has aroused widespread attention from the outside world.
In late 2022, the U.S. Virgin Islands sued JPMorgan Chase Bank, alleging that the bank provided financial services to Epstein's companies and assisted Epstein in concealing crimes even though it knew that they were engaged in illegal activities. The U.S. Virgin Islands also believes that JPMorgan Chase may have recommended or tried to recommend some high-net-worth individuals to Epstein as clients, including Musk.
According to US media reports on the 15th, the US Virgin Islands has issued a subpoena to Musk on April 28, requiring him to provide the following documents:
Communication between him and Epstein about JPMorgan
His communication with JPMorgan about Epstein
Any documents on which he pays Epstein or JPMorgan
Any documents that reflect or involve Epstein's involvement in human trafficking or the purchase of girls or women for commercial sex
The subpoena did not allege any wrongdoing on Musk's part. However, this incident has undoubtedly brought a lot of pressure and negative impact to Musk.
It is understood that JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will testify on May 26 about the lawsuit and a related lawsuit filed against the bank by a woman who said Epstein sexually abused her.
Musk declined to accept the subpoena, saying Epstein never offered him financial advice
The U.S. Virgin Islands government said in a court filing last Monday that an investigative firm it hired could not locate Musk and could not serve him a subpoena in person, as is customary. The filing also said that one of Musk's lawyers did not respond to a request by lawyers to accept subpoenas on behalf of his client.
Musk tweeted last Monday night to refute the idea that he was summoned in the case. "This is stupid on many levels, and that idiot never gave me any advice," he wrote, referring to Epstein.
Musk added: "The idea that I need or listen to the financial advice of stupid scammers is ridiculous. JPMorgan let Tesla down a decade ago, even though it owned Tesla's global commercial banking business, which we later withdrew. I never forgave them. ”
In 2018, Epstein told the media that he had been advising Musk after the SEC launched an investigation into Musk's remarks about taking Tesla private. A Tesla spokesperson responded that "the claim that Epstein gave Elon any advice is incorrect." ”
In July 2020, Musk replied to a tweet that was accompanied by a photo showing Musk and Epstein's girlfriend, Maxwell, once photographed together at a banquet.
Musk wrote: "I didn't know her at all. A few years ago, she snapped up a photo with me at a party at Vanity Fair. The real question was why Vanity Fair invited her in the first place. ”
But according to a Vanity Fair magazine staff member standing next to Maxwell and Musk at the banquet, the two not only took photos together, but also chatted. Maxwell asked Musk if there was a way to keep himself out of the internet and encouraged Musk to destroy it, and Musk disagreed.
Maxwell then asked Musk why aliens had not yet made contact with humans, and Musk replied that all civilizations would eventually end, including Maxwell's hypothetical aliens.
It is understood that Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June 28, 2022 local time for helping Epstein sexually exploit and abuse underage women.
In early June 2022, Musk tweeted why US authorities have not disclosed the list of clients of the lustful tycoon Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who committed suicide in prison.
Musk shared a picture of dinosaurs, unicorns, dragons, and text from the "Epstein/Maxwell Customer List," noting that these are things he "won't see in his lifetime."
Musk also questioned why the Justice Department did not disclose the list of clients, and said that no media seemed to care about the issue.
This article originated from the financial world