a report published by wall street journal Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein allegedly threatened and tried to blackmail Bill Gates over an extramarital affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova, police said on Sunday.
magazine The report, citing sources familiar with the matter, said that after Epstein learned of Gates’ affair with Antonova, he threatened to reimburse the Microsoft co-founder for tuition costs, which Epstein initially refused. Antonova to attend software coding school.
According to the report, Epstein threatened Gates via an email in 2017 after he failed to persuade Gates to join the billion-dollar charity fund.
Gates met Antonova in 2009 at a bridge tournament in Washington, D.C., when she was 20, and went on to play bridge with her. In a 2010 YouTube video, Antonova recounted a tournament she played with Gates. “I didn’t hit him, but I tried to kick him with my foot,” she said in the video.
The billionaire tech titan would have been in his late 50s and was married to Melinda Gates at the time.
With Melinda, Gates has three children. The couple got divorced in May 2021 after 27 years of marriage.
It is unclear exactly when Gates and Antonova began the alleged romantic tryst or how long it may have lasted.
About Antonova
Antonova was born and raised in Russia. He is a skilled card player.
According to her now-deleted LinkedIn profile, Antonova attended a university in her homeland from 2000 to 2005.
She also worked as a software engineer in San Francisco.
He founded a bridge club at some point after relocating to the US.
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