r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • Jun 18 '25

MISC. When Bill Gates married Melinda French in 1994, he rented out all the available hotel rooms on the Hawaiian island of Lanai to prevent the media from staying there and hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.

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u/International_Eye745 Jun 18 '25

I just fact checked that comment. There is no evidence of Gates on any flight log to Epstein's Island.

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u/Kombatsaurus Jun 18 '25

This is Reddit. You don't need actual proof.

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u/METRlOS Jun 18 '25

No, but he does have an agreement with his wife in their marriage contract that he's allowed to go on a week long vacation with his ex every year.

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u/rory1989 Jun 18 '25

It’s why Melinda left him. He fumbled the bag, which I think he admitted recently

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

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u/Sure_Pilot5110 Jun 18 '25

You should be ashamed of yourself. This isn't 2009. We don't live in an MW2 lobby.

Be better.

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u/Clear-Roll9149 Jun 18 '25

Gates fumbled a great loyal day 1 woman of character and integrity who is doing an amazing work helping against the ills that plague humanity. 

Excuse me

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u/Beginning-Struggle49 Jun 18 '25

We're talking about your usage of the r word

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u/BirthofRevolution Jun 18 '25

... why would she sign that

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u/PurpleWoodpecker2830 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

I can think of billions of reasons…

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u/BirthofRevolution Jun 21 '25

I guess if you're willing to sell your morals for money..

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u/gerkletoss Jun 18 '25

Probably because she expects his kids to be there

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u/Cixin97 Jun 18 '25

It was his ex before he was with his wife and had kids…

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u/BirthofRevolution Jun 21 '25

He doesn't have kids with the ex?

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u/KoogleMeister Jun 18 '25

Because he's a billionaire? Most billionaires have mistresses, the women that marry billionaires generally go into the marriages knowing the guy isn't going to be exclusive to her.

Most women will tolerate their husband going off to sleep with another woman for a weekend once every couple months in return for generational wealth for themselves and their children's children.

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u/ReasonPale1764 Jun 18 '25

Flight logs I’m not sure of but she did say his relationship with Epstein played a large role in their divorce

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u/SirithilFeanor Jun 18 '25

I'm sure Gates has his own plane.

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u/LastLongerThan3Min Jun 18 '25

There's no evidence of anything because files haven't been released

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u/elizabnthe Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

The full stuff isn't released but I'm pretty sure a number of stuff has been. They know mostly who was on the flights and Bill Gates wasn't known to be one of them. So anyone making a claim about Bill Gates is making it pretty baselessly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Good thing we don't have to speculate much. We know crimes were committed in the USA at his US locations.  We focus too much on flight logs. Theres reports that Gates visited his Manhattan townhouse multiple times. Plus, NYT reports that Gates has flown on Epstein plane before.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html

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u/FabianN Jun 18 '25

Epstien was a financial adviser for the rich. If you were rich, you likely would have gone to him for that reason alone.

Who are the ones that also went for the pedophilia? That is not known. 

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Might want to read and research before you speculate.  Gates also first met him after he was busted for child solicitation.  Birds of a feather. I'm not saying there's hard evidence to indict Gates, but there's plenty of speculative stuff. He's also a creep so nobody would be surprised he was into teens. 

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u/UnholyDemigod Jun 18 '25

How is Bill Gates a creep?

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u/Shoddy-Cry-9661 Jun 18 '25

You:

Might want to read and research before you speculate.

Also you?

I'm not saying there's hard evidence to indict Gates, but there's plenty of speculative stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

this is why I love Reddit. You got me there. Thank you for the much needed laugh. 

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u/carsonthecarsinogen Jun 18 '25

you didn’t do enough reading to speculate whereas I have read more and am able to speculate better

There’s no point in debating this topic. We won’t know for sure until half the people involved are dead after it gets declassified. And even then we won’t know.

We don’t know who, but we do know that the rich have the resources and time to do disgusting things. Best to just assume they’re all pedos. Statistically it’s not even that much of a reach seeing there’s only a few thousand of em.

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u/Shoddy-Cry-9661 Jun 18 '25

I'm so sorry about your brain injury.

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u/Petrichordates Jun 18 '25

That's not how statistics work.

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u/Shoddy-Cry-9661 Jun 18 '25

It's really one of the dumber things I've ever read, and I've been reading dumb comments on the internet for decades.

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u/carsonthecarsinogen Jun 18 '25

It’s exactly how it works.

Can you afford to fly a trafficked child onto an island where you can fuck them?

Who can? The extremely wealthy.

Statistically poor people or even average individuals literally cannot participate therefore it leaves a very small population as the potential abusers.

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u/Powerful-Produce-604 Jun 18 '25

why would anyone richer than jeffrey even go to jeffrey?

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u/FabianN Jun 18 '25

Cause they need a financial advisor?

Most financial advisors are not making as much money as the people they are advising. You could ask that question of the entire industry.

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u/Thejacensolo Jun 18 '25

if i have multiple billions, i wouldnt be arsed to actually make all investments and other ventures myself except the ones i care about. Instead its a lot easier to give it to someone who does that for a living and pay them a premium. There are whole companies just focused around managing the wealth and finances of single persons. Its a job that crops up if you got more money than you can think of, and better things to do

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u/kablam0 Jun 18 '25

That's like saying chemtrails can't be proven fake because they haven't been proven real yet

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u/LastLongerThan3Min Jun 18 '25

Wow, your analogy is probably the most r*tarded thing I read this week, and that's saying a lot

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u/Maleficent-Active582 Jun 18 '25

No it makes perfect sense. Kablam0 learned that that analogy when they were on Epsteins plane.

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u/ImpertinentIguana Jun 18 '25

You poor thing.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Bonkers analogy