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Bill Gates told House panel Epstein was plotting to blackmail him about extramarital affairs 86%
6/24/2026, 5:51:29 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Framing Effect, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 32.1% saturation with 113 hits. Analysis detected 976 faulty-reasoning hits from 352 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 78% and a BS Rank of 86% (3,150 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 85.60% of the video peer group.
This morning, a window into how Jeffrey Epstein may have tried to wield compromising information against one of the world's richest men.
A newly released transcript shows Bill Gates expressed regret about his yearslong relationship with Epstein and told the House Oversight Committee when he tried to cut ties, Epstein wouldn't have it.
and plotted to use Gates's sex life against him.
"I was not blackmailed,"
Gates told the committee. "But, you know, it looks like Mr. Epstein's brainstorming was going in that direction."
Gates acknowledged he had three extrammarital affairs.
And when Epstein learned about two of them from a mutual acquaintance, he said Epstein began working to use information about my infidelities.
The committee asked Gates about these photos from the Epstein files showing him with women.
Gates responded he did not know them.
He said Epstein asked me to take a photo with one of his assistants, which I did.
Gates said he knew Epstein was a sex offender, but hoped he would introduce him to wealthy people who could help the
Gates Foundation.
Gates said he met Tom Pritsker, Mort Zuckerman, and Leon Black.
Black. None donated, and Gates told the committee the Epstein brokered meetings were a dead end.
>> Mr. Gates was aware that Jeffrey Epstein had been convicted and for a horrific crime and continued to interact with him to seek money for his foundation.
And I think that obviously I think we would agree was a horrific judgment call.
>> A transcript of the committee's interview with Epstein's longtime assistant Leslie Gra shows she denied booking massages for Epstein with anyone
she knew to be underage.
"I never met these women, so I didn't know if they were young or how old they were," Gra said.
I thought that it was just something that he did, like going to the gym.
On Friday, the committee scheduled to interview Leon Black, the private equity billionaire.
He was forced out of the firm that he founded over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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