Divorce Bill Gates’ ex-wife Melinda French Gates opened her divorce for the first time – “I had nightmares afterwards”

World perhaps the most influential couple resigned last May.

Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates and Melinda French Gatesin The end of the 27-year marriage became a topic of conversation around the world.

This week, French Gates, 57, opened To the CBS channel the reasons for the divorce in an interview. According to him, there were several reasons for the resignation.

According to previously published media data, the couple’s separation was preceded by years of process. One of the concerns had been Bill Gates ’connection to the accused of sex crimes Jeffrey to Epstein.

Now, in his first televised interview after the resignation, French Gates says he was shocked by Bill Gates ’meetings with Epstein.

He says he met Epstein only once.

“I wanted to see who this man was and regretted it the same second I stepped in the door,” French Gates says.

“I saw nightmares about it afterwards.”

In an interview French Gates says his heart breaks when he thinks of Epstein’s victims. At the same time, he noted that Bill Gates himself answers questions about the quality of his relationship with Epstein.

Bill Gates states Wall Street Journal said in a statement passed through a spokesman on Thursday that he deeply regrets Epstein’s meeting and considers it a mistake.

Epstein was accused of exploiting dozens of young women and girls and running a sex trade. He was found dead in his cell in late summer 2019. Suicide has been reported as the official cause of death.

66 years old Bill Gates was once the richest man in the world. He left his job at Microsoft management in 2008 to focus on charity, and later he also left the company’s board.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the reason for leaving the government was an investigation into Gates’ old relationship.

The couple met when Melinda Gates joined Microsoft in 1987. They married in 1994 and have three children in common.