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Bill Gates Apologizes to his Foundation, Admits Affairs but Denies Crimes

On: 02/25/2026

In: Bill Gates, Boris Nikolic, Epstein, Finance, Jes Staley, Lawrence Summers, Philanthropy, Technology

From left to right: JPMorgan Chase honcho Jes Staley, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates and Boris Nikolic

Bill Gates has been forced to issue an apology to the staff of his Gates Foundation over his personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Gates admitted to affairs with a Russian nuclear physicist and a Russian bridge player that he said he met through “business activities.” The billionaire Microsoft co-founder said it was a “huge mistake to spend time with Epstein” and to bring Gates Foundation executives to meetings with Epstein.

One of those executives, Dr. Boris Nikolic, was named the executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s will and appears thousands of times in the files. Nikolic, a Harvard-trained immunologist turned biotech venture capitalist, served as a science advisor to Gates and the Gates Foundation from 2007 to 2013.

Nikolic was clearly close to Epstein, sharing emails like this one where they envision a barter website for trading boys and girls. In this email Epstein repeatedly asks Nikolic what “Larry’s” preferences are. “does he want girls, boys, stars, dancing, food,” asks Epstein.

If nothing else, this email exchange between Gates and Epstein from August of 2013 proves Gates was very concerned with how to categorize a $500,000 “gift” he paid to Nikolic for tax purposes and was seeking Epstein’s opinion about it. The email suggests a falling out between Gates and Nikolic, with Epstein acting as mediator.

“If Boris decides he has changed his mind about what was agreed when you visited our offices that is too bad,” wrote Gates. “When someone asks for more there is no end to it as you and I discussed. Boris can make whatever he wants public at that point and I will explain to the right people what was done to me and by whom.”

More disturbing is an email Epstein sent to himself that appears to be written on Nikolic’s behalf as a contract to terminate his relationship with Bill and Melinda Gates. The email has Nikolic suggesting what he would do if he and Gates’ roles were reversed. “In that regard I suggest I buy you the house that you so had your heart set on. and in addition to five years of severance will buy you out of the investment contract we had agree, 30 -40 percent of a hundred million dollar partnership. for 30 million dollars in today’s dollars. terms and conditions to be agreed. That’s what i would have done had I been in your shoes. what i did receive however was an unfriendly strongly worded email , telling me how employable I am and that i should not look to you for any significant financial help in the future, TO add insult to the injury you them implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis.”

Gates last week canceled a keynote speech at the India A.I. Impact Summit amid fallout from his Epstein associations.

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FBI Whistleblower Accused U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick of Fraud, Money Laundering and More

On: 02/24/2026

In: Epstein, Finance, Ghislaine Maxwell, Howard Lutnick, Jes Staley, Les Wexner, Politics, Richard Branson, Royals, Sarah Ferguson

The Manhattan apartments where Epstein and Lutnick resided for more than 2 decades

When U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was questioned at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing earlier this month, the focus was on his personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick walked back statements he had previously made and revealed he and his family had visited Epstein on his private island.

But the Epstein files contain much more damaging information about Lutnick, who was Epstein’s New York City next door neighbor for more than 20 years. Les Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch, originally owned both buildings. Wexner has recently come under scrutiny for his decades-long business dealings with Epstein.

Lutnick also had a long-time business relationship with Epstein, including an investment contract signed in 2012 for a digital ad company called AdFin Solutions. Lutnick signed on behalf of an LLC controlled by investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, where he served as CEO. The deal was made five days after Lutnick and his family visited Epstein on his private island.

Perhaps the most damning allegations against Lutnick are contained in an FBI whistleblower complaint dated 04/23/2021. Titled “Alleged Money Laundering by Howard Lutnick via BGC Financial and Cantor Fitzgerald,” the complaint alleges “fraud, money laundering, Ponzi schemes and regulatory breaches by [redacted] and CF.” Lutnick was chairman and CEO of financial services company BGC, a spinoff of Cantor Fitzgerald, until he was appointed Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

The FBI complaint also links Lutnick to illegal activities with JP Morgan, Russian hedge funds and other senior finance executives. Jes Staley, former CEO of JP Morgan, resigned as CEO of Barclays in 2021 after a U.K. regulatory investigation about his relationship with Epstein. He was subsequently banned from the U.K. financial sector for misrepresenting his relationship with the convicted pedophile.

“[Redacted] has documented proof showing money laundering and Ponzi schemes by Lutnick via offshore shell companies, liquid funding, and real estate brokerage firms,” states the FBI complaint. “[Redacted] believes he has supporting documents which could link Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell and Sarah Ferguson, a royal family member, host events called La Dolce Vita Parties, where high profile celebrities and executives contribute large donations to attend. The donations are linked to causes involving children. Lutnick made ‘huge donations’ to these events.”

An earlier FBI interview with presumably the same whistleblower offers more insight about the money laundering, speculating it was from the Russian Mafia. It also alleges “Lutnick gave Sarah Ferguson office space above Cantor Fitzgerald in New York for the Children in Crisis (CIC) charity. Ghislaine Maxwell and Ferguson would attend Dolce Vita Parties which raised money for CIC and Stowe School. CIC no longer existed.”

Children in Crisis merged with another organization in 2018. Stowe School is an elite British private boarding school whose alumni include Richard Branson (a prominent figure in the Epstein files), the actor Henry Cavill, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, along with dozens of well-known British royals, politicians, entertainers, journalists and athletes.

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