evidence: Bill Gates described his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’ in a television interview aired days after Gates’s divorce from ex-wife Melinda French Gates was finalised. Bill Gates described his relationship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a "huge mistake" in a television interview aired days after his divorce from ex-wife Melinda French Gates was finalised. [...] In 2019, The New York Times reported that Gates had met with Epstein on numerous occasions starting in 2011, including three times at Epstein’s New York townhouse.