It has become common knowledge that Gates’s relationship with Epstein and his unfaithfulness contributed to his ex-wife Melinda Gates filing for divorce after twenty-seven years together. Melinda spoke openly about her ex-husband’s affair after filing for divorce,
“I certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,” she confessed. “It wasn’t one moment or one specific thing that happened. There just came a point in time where there was enough there where I realized it just wasn’t healthy, and I couldn’t trust what we had.”
Melinda also weighed in on Bill’s relationship with Epstein,
“I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein,” she shared,
“And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. He