© IgniteNYC/YouTubeRussian bridge player Mila Antonova and Bill Gates
Jeffrey Epstein threatened to expose an affair Bill Gates allegedly had with a Russian bridge player after the Microsoft co-founder declined to join his philanthropic venture, according to a report on Sunday.
The
disgraced pedophile, who killed himself in 2019, appeared to threaten Gates over the alleged affair with Russian card whiz Mila Antonova in a 2017 email, the
Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Gates met Antonova in 2010, with the two were playing in a tournament together after she moved to the Bay Area to work as a software engineer, the newspaper said.
While Antonova acknowledged that she was on friendly terms with Gates during a 2010 video about her love of bridge, the two allegedly had a brief romance while Gates was still married to his then-wife,
Melinda French Gates, sources told the
Journal.
Epstein, meanwhile, met Antonova while she was looking for financial backers for a bridge academy and later paid for her to attend software coding school, according to the report.
(From left) Jes Staley, Lawrence Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, and Boris Nikolic with Jeffrey Epstein’s at his Manhattan house in 2011.
In the 2017 email, Epstein called on Gates to reimburse him for the cost of investing in Antonova's coding education, the
Journal reported. The message came just after the tech titan declined to join the convicted sex offender's multibillion-dollar charity he was trying to kick off with JPMorgan Chase, sources told the newspaper.
Gates, 67, has previously admitted to and
expressed regret for having several meetings with Epstein in the 2010s — after Epstein's 2008 conviction in Florida on charges of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution — as part of efforts to raise money for the Gates Foundation.
"Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates," a spokesperson for Gates said.
The spokesperson added that Gates never paid up over the threat and that he had "no financial dealings" with Epstein.
Antonova told the
Journal that she didn't know who Epstein really was when they met, thinking he was just a "successful businessman and wanted to help."
"I am disgusted with Epstein and what he did," Antonova said, while declining to comment on her alleged relationship with Gates.
Following her tournament match with Gates, which resulted in the billionaire's victory, Antonova was inspired to start her own business venture teaching people to play the game she loved.
Boris Nikolic, a top adviser to Gates at the time, pointed Antonova to Epstein, then a well-connected financier, who agreed to meet her at his Manhattan townhouse in 2013, sources told the Journal.
Although Epstein passed on the project, she said he did agree to help pay for her software engineer studies.
"I don't know why he did that," she told the
Journal. "When I asked, he said something like, he was wealthy and wanted to help people when he could."
Epstein also provided an apartment for her to stay at in New York City in November 2014. Antonova said she did not interact with Epstein or anyone else during the brief stay.
Following his sex-crimes conviction, Epstein appeared to be on damage control and hoped to create a multibillion-dollar charitable foundation with Gates headlining as a big-name donor, sources told the
Journal.
Epstein allegedly dropped Gates' name as he worked to secure the foundation with JPMorgan Chase, but Gates and the bank declined to work together with him.
The rejection triggered the email asking the billionaire to pay him back for Antonova's studies, sources told the
Journal, suggesting Epstein was attempting to blackmail Gates over the alleged relationship, which by then had been over for years.
Gates, Nikolic and JPMorgan Chase have said in statements that they regret ever meeting with Epstein on charitable matters.
"I deeply regret that I ever met Epstein," Nikolic, who worked with Epstein on philanthropic proposals, told the
Journal. "His crimes were despicable. I never saw anything like his illegal behavior. My heart goes out to his victims and their families."
The alleged relationship with Antonova would be the second such affair Gates has been accused of engaging in during his 27-year marriage with Melinda.
In 2021, Gates acknowledged through a spokeswoman that he had an affair of almost
20 years with a Microsoft employee, a relationship the rep said "ended amicably" before Gates stepped down from the company to focus on his philanthropy.
Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw elaborated that the company's board looked into the affair in 2019 after it received an email from an engineer.
In the email, the woman demanded changes to her Microsoft job and also asked that Melinda read her letter revealing the affair. The email triggered an investigation into Gates as calls for him to step down grew, but the mogul was still re-elected to Microsoft's board before he left in 2020.
News of the affair came following multiple reports that Gates clumsily asked out
several women who worked for him at Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It's unclear how much Melinda knew about her husband's alleged behavior.
Reader Comments
anyhow, if she was in the card game I'd give her heed - she seems to be a professional.
Then, in the game of cards - let the best player prevail I reckon.
Afterwards, depending on how things went, I might look at
her and say - "game well played"....
odds are that ain't how it went
down twixt her and
billy bad ass.
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BK, Poem of the Day, 52223 1745
There is no story here whatsoever but billy bad ass has some explaining to do on other topics, and I suspect that is the only reason this pathetic story is being told now. Cause independent of bridge playing skils and this lady or that lady being laid, billy bad ass has some explaining to do in regards to other activities he has been participating in such as purchasing farm land, advocating things that only increase his pocket book such as we all get to eat bugs and other shit like that.
Maybe a few.
Maybe i shouldn't. Hahaha.
Kamala harris comes to mind.
How to win friends and influence people.
Have you seen the movie lolita?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_(1997_film)
How innocent?
At least gates and epstein like woman/females even though they're actually girls. Their behavour is normal im my eyes. Some cultures marry even younger. Crazy!
Hopefully because you have daughters not to triggered by my comments.
It ain't taboo to be honest about the incentives of some ladies in the sex arena is it?
I mean sex - it is a two-way street and this victimhood thinking is naive.
Thanks for what you express.
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Plus, I think I may have seen the flick - Lolita is a name with connotations for sure.
Ken
When I play bridge, the card game of it, I'd just assume my partner be a male.
But not billy bad ass....he is a jerk and a dick want a be.
An asshole through and through
ergo - billy bad ass...
duh...
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any bridge player would know better than to get mixed up in that group unless maybe the bridge player had some personal ambitions and truly figured she could use her attributes to her advantage?
Assuming the other players are humans as well.
I was quick on the cards with that one
You are playing a game of "Oh Hell" - the rules are here: [Link] - and that link is fun cause you can play the game there as well.
Anyhow, it is the first hand and there are 5 players in the game and the dealer flips over a card indicating that "Clubs" are trump.
You are the first better and you have a 4 of clubs in your hand - what do you bet?
0 or 1?
Those are the only options because there is only one trick in the first hand and only one of the 5 players will win the trick - Clubs are Trump. What is your bet - do you bet 0 or do you bet 1?
Ken
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because I can, I've played this game so many times, I will give a clue - it depends on the probability of winning the hand per the situation described - if the probability is over 50%, then bet 1 - if not, bet 0. If it is exactly at 50%, which I think I can prove it is NOT, then players choice - the best players are not bots, but they can figure quick in their minds.
So, what the hell, lets run the odds, and lets assume "jokers" are not in the game, so there are 9 cards in the deck that can beat the 4 of clubs - what is the probability that one of the other 4 players has one of these 9 cards - the answer resides there.
The first player to the left of the dealer bids first and the trump suit is clubs.
The first player has a 4 of clubs. There are 9 other cards in the deck that will beat the 4 of clubs laid first - although, see this is what is so funny - the card flipped by the dealer to determine that clubs was trump must also be considered......now things start getting tricky, but lets assume the dealer flipped a 2 of clubs, in which case, the text below remains accurate I think....
The first player to the left of the first player therefore has a 9/50 chance of having one of the cards - 18% chance.
OK - I already know the answer.
Bid 0. But there is a non-trivial chance - more than 25% I suspect - maybe 32% but I don't think it is quite that simple, but regardless, there is a non-trivial chance you are gonna win the hand even though you made the bet (also called a "bid") proper. That is why the name of the game is Oh-Hell!
Ken
So - bid 0 for eff sake.
However, let me ask this - what if you had the 7 or the 8 of clubs instead?
If there was a card called the 7.5 card, now that might be 50-50 I'm thinking assuming no jokers in the deck.
This is why we play with the 2 jokers - they make the game so much more fun, but I'm the best Oh Hell player in the southeast so just know that and if you want to put me to the test then.....please do.
More formidable, I agree, and intelligent.
Now contrast that with the other picture of her and her braids.
I suspect, winning in "Bridge" was not her top ambition when she met billy.
The report on Billy is he is a "breast man".....so she dressed accordingly.
On the other image, I do like the little flap from her belt that is off to the side.
Ken
Talk to you later and with respect,
Ken
What is the purpose of this story about billy bad ass and some chick who played bridge he had a dalliance with?
If so - join the club I reckon - I suspect the Clinton's are in that club.
Many others as well.
Still - voo-doo
get out there
and do
something why don't ya.
It's his meddling in viruses, gene editing, so called vaccines and earths climate control that's really disturbing about gill bates.
“Was it a setup ? Is Mila Antonova a ‘swallow’ KGB asset ? Did Epstein know ? Was she a double/triple agent ?”
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Revealed - Bill Gates's younger Russian 'lover' and her links to notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman [Link]
Certainly the coincidence of both General Betray-us getting taken down by a Ball’s Deep American operative & Gates getting taken down/exploited by a KGB Swallows agent is beyond ironic & obvious.
Despite repeated approaches this week, it's still not known whether the 67-year-old Microsoft boss had any knowledge of any potential link between Antonova and Chapman, daughter of a former KGB officer.
Certainly, a relationship between Gates, one of the most influential businessmen on the planet, and a woman who appears to have connections to a Kremlin intelligence agent is troubling.