• A wild new report from the Wall Street Journal details how Jeffrey Epstein appeared to blackmail Bill Gates after finding out he’d had an affair.
• According to the Journal, Epstein was found to have learned about an affair between Gates and a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova. Epstein met Antonova in 2013, three years after Gates. The disgraced sex offender then paid for Antonova to attend software coding school.
• But according to the Journal, Epstein later tried to get Gates to pick up the tab — sending him an email in 2017 asking to be reimbursed for the cost of the tuition. “The implication behind the message, according to people who have viewed it, was that Epstein could reveal the affair if Gates didn’t keep up an association between the two men,” according to the Journal.

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