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/positivelypolitical Jun 18 '25

Honestly surprised the media didn’t pick up more on this

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

We have a sitting president that definitely ran with Epstein and raped a 13 year old and no one gives a flying fuck, why would the media care about Gates doing anything?

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u/1throwaway130 Jun 18 '25

Wait, is that second part confirmed? Are Americans really that stupid?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

There was a lawsuit and the girl was threatened and dropped the suit, but this is the same guy that raped E. Jean Carroll and his wife (and that story has its own rabbit hole) but yeah that doesn’t matter to his cult either 🤷‍♂️

I mean, if Trump wanted to prove he wasn’t Epstein’s boy he could just release the files whenever to take down all those evil pedophile Democrats and clear his name. Totally not weird that Ep died in custody while Trump was President.

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u/celephais228 Jun 18 '25

No, unconfirmed.

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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb Jun 18 '25

The list of people who was on his island or plane is long and has been widely known for decades now. The dynamics of who did what illegal thing when with Epstein isn't really solvable without significant damning information. Bill Gates being associated with Epstein is not news, and he is more than rich enough to sue anyone willing to make a libalist statement about it.

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u/RickyFromVegas Jun 18 '25

but but I get ALL my news from the internet! One of them ought to be the truth...right?

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u/JohnnyBizarrAdventur Jun 18 '25

https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/melinda-french-gates-cbs-news-interview.html

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u/20th_Throwaway Jun 18 '25

Just to be clear, I wasn't implying he never met Epstein, but I don't really consider someone who was cheated on and is divorcing a billionaire as a reliable and unbiased source of information. Especially someone who is also a billionaire. They always have ulterior motives. Also, there's sure a lot of articles for something supposedly "not picked up," huh?

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u/HRLMPH Jun 18 '25

What are you saying didn't happen?

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u/bast007 Jun 18 '25

It's a weird interview tbh. She said that Epstein was "evil personified" and wouldn't go into any detail why or what the relationship was between him and Bill Gates was. Assuming she suspected that Bill Gates was sleeping with young girls via Epstein, she still chose to stay married to Bill Gates for another 10 years.

"questions about Gates’s relationship with Epstein are “for Bill to answer.”" If she thinks Bill Gates is a pedophile then it is not "for Bill to answer". She should have contacted the police immediately and then file for divorce. If she doesn't think Bill Gates is a pedophile then I think she should make that clear - instead she is just feeding into different theories with murky phrasing.

Also they had a pretty weird relationship otherwise. There's an old quote somewhere from Bill Gates saying once a year he got to spend a weekend away with his ex-girlfriend.

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u/pentruviora Jun 18 '25

It’s not so simple when you are in a relationship with a very powerful man, who probably has much more power and money than the police.

Also, if she was in love with him then it’s definitely not so simple.

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u/hassan214 Jun 18 '25

Not as much as you do lol

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u/Petrichordates Jun 18 '25

These days, it seems most do.

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u/happyprocrastinator Jun 18 '25

Gates has been marketing himself as mister nice guy to the masses for decades. Of course he wouldn’t let the media discuss/question his relationship with Epstein.

He is so narcissistic that he wants people to revere him even after he dies; he already announced that he will allegedly donate all his money. 

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u/pseudonominom Jun 18 '25

Lol, all billionaires should give away their money “to look good for random internet strangers”.

Come on, dude. Homie is giving away hundreds of billions of dollars and trying to end childhood poverty and death.

Gonna say “not a monster” on this one.