Representative Nancy Mace from North Carolina is pushing for Bill Gates to be subpoenaed, following revelations that his ex-wife’s reaction to unsettling accusations about the Microsoft co-founder has surfaced in newly uncovered emails associated with Jeffrey Epstein.
The congresswoman revealed her intentions in a Wednesday social media post, saying she asked House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) to subpoena the Microsoft co-founder “immediately” after she watched Melinda Gates’ Tuesday interview on NPR’s Wild Card podcast.
In a subsequent statement, Mace declared, “We’re urging Bill Gates to testify under oath about his connections with Jeffrey Epstein before the Oversight Committee.”
“The Department of Justice has just released three million pages of Epstein documents, and the claims are APPALLING. If these allegations are untrue, Bill Gates should have no issue denying them under oath in front of Congress,” the congresswoman asserted. “No one is exempt from the law—not billionaires or the powerful. No one.”
The latest batch of Epstein files, disclosed by the Department of Justice, reveals a 2013 email in which the late sex offender alleged that Gates contracted an STD after engaging with “Russian girls,” and sought to covertly administer antibiotics to his wife Melinda, instead of informing her.
According to Alana Mastrangelo of – News, the email was addressed solely to Epstein but seemed to be notes intended for Gates’ long-time adviser, Boris Nikolic.
A 2017 email, unveiled by the Wall Street Journal in 2023, appeared to show Epstein attempting to blackmail Gates over an alleged affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova. This was reportedly an effort to persuade the tech magnate to participate in a charitable fund Epstein was launching.
A 2017 email published by the Wall Street Journal in 2023 also appeared to show Epstein threatening to expose Bill’s alleged affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova, supposedly because the tech mogul refused to join a charitable fund the disgraced financier had started.
Melinda shared her dismay at the allegations on Wild Card, saying Bill and other Epstein associates “need to answer to those things.”
“I think we’re having a reckoning as a society,” she told host Rachel Martin. “No girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with all of the various people around him.”
Bill and Melinda jointly announced their divorce in 2021 after 27 years of marriage and three children, saying, “[W]e no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.”
“It’s beyond heartbreaking. I remember being those ages those girls were; I remember my daughters being those ages,” Melinda added on the podcast.
“So, for me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage, but I have moved on from that,” she continued, before saying “whatever questions” that remain on the Epstein debacle “are for those people, and even my ex-husband.”
“They need to answer to those things, not me,” Melinda added. “And I am so happy to be away from all the muck.”
A spokesperson for Bill responded to the allegations in the 2013 email in a statement to Business Insider, saying, “These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false.”
“The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame,” the spokesperson added.
It remains unclear whether the 2013 emails were ever sent to Bill himself.
