Bill Gates is pictured in two photos with unknown women. Photo / House Oversight Committee Democrats
Jeffrey Epstein kept photos of Bill Gates posing alongside women, newly published images show.
Democrats published 68 new photographs from Epstein’s estate showing Gates as well as a host of the paedophile’s powerful associates, including Woody Allen, Noam Chomsky and Steve Bannon.
The Microsoft founder was pictured standing arm in arm with a woman with dark hair and a navy dress. A further photo showed him standing alongside a woman dressed in a white shirt in a hallway. Both had their faces obscured.
The photos are the latest in a string of releases from the Democrats on the House oversight committee, which published more than 20,000 pages of documents from the Epstein estate in November.
Gates was previously photographed posing with a woman who accused Epstein of abuse, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The photograph was reportedly taken at the Microsoft founder’s Seattle office in 2014, almost 10 years after Epstein was arrested for soliciting a child for prostitution.
The woman, a Polish model who was in her 20s at the time, told The Journal that it “couldn’t have looked normal”.
A Gates spokesperson said the software billionaire did not know or interact with the woman that Epstein brought to Seattle. He has said he deeply regretted meeting the sex offender, calling it a “substantial error in judgment”.
Melinda Gates, his ex-wife, said the 70-year-old’s relationship with the “abhorrent” paedophile played into the breakdown of their marriage after 27 years.
Gates, who announced their divorce in 2021, previously told CBS: “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him.”
Describing her one meeting with Epstein, she said: “I regretted it the second I walked in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. My heart breaks for these women.”
Epstein also kept photos of a woman with the opening lines from the novel Lolita scrawled across her skin.
The pictures reveal various parts of a woman’s body with passages from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov written on her.
“Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth,” read one passage scrawled on a woman’s chest.
“She was Lola in slacks,” is written on a woman’s hip.
“She was Dolly at school,” is written on a woman’s neck and “She was Dolores on the dotted line,” is written on a woman’s back.
Another picture of a woman’s foot with the book in the background has a quote that reads “Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock.”
The eponymous book by Nabokov charts an academic’s grooming of a child named Lolita.
Epstein’s private jet, which he used to fly underage girls to his private Island, Little St James, was nicknamed the “Lolita Express”.
The name was supposedly given to it by locals because of the frequent arrival of underage women.
A further photo shows Epstein surrounded by three women.
Chomsky, a prominent intellectual, is pictured in conversation with Epstein on a private jet. Meanwhile, Bannon is pictured seated across from the sex offender at a desk, on which a photograph of an unconscious woman sits.
In a text message exchange shared by the Democrats on the House committee, two individuals talk about scouting for girls and paying US$1000 ($1731) for them.
One girl is described as an 18-year-old. And her departure city is listed as being in Russia.
“Maybe someone will be good for J?” an unidentified texter wrote.
Epstein also appeared to write a love letter to an unknown recipient from prison, addressed to “the love of my life”, on paper from the Palm Beach County sheriff’s office.
The inmate’s request, signed off “I love you”, is dated December 2008, when Epstein was serving an 18-month jail sentence for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
A selection of images appears to show building plans for Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.
In one photo, Epstein can be seen shaking hands with a police officer. The photograph will provide fuel to conspiracy theorists who believe Epstein was protected by a powerful network, including police.
Another shows two military-style bows and arrows lying on the floor.
One photo kept by Epstein shows a container of phenazopyridine tablets, which are used to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs).
The disclosure comes before the much-anticipated release of the so-called Epstein files. Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has until Friday to publish all the files it holds on the paedophile.
Republicans have been instructed to attack the Democrats over the files as the White House prepares for potentially embarrassing details about the President to emerge.
Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, told Vanity Fair that Trump was named in the files.
Wiles said she had read the documents, and while Trump was named, “he’s not documented doing anything awful”.
Trump maintains he broke off his friendship with Epstein years before the latter pleaded guilty to child sex charges in 2008.
“I threw him out of my club many years ago because I thought he was a sick pervert. I guess I turned out to be right,” he said.
Elsewhere, it emerged on Thursday that Bill Clinton, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the paedophile’s ex-girlfriend, attended the king of Morocco’s wedding together.
The former US President’s own staff were shocked by the request to bring Epstein and Maxwell to Mohammed VI’s wedding in 2002, according to The New York Post.
Clinton, Epstein and Maxwell sat with the king, the source claimed. “It was like a formal, sit-down, black-tie, fancy, fancy wedding,” they said.
Neither source believes Clinton knew that Epstein was a paedophile, according to the newspaper.
Clinton, who admits travelling on Epstein’s private plane, wrote in his memoir that he had “stopped contact” with Epstein before he was first arrested in 2005, for soliciting a child for prostitution.
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