BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein allegedly blackmailed Bill Gates over reported affair with Russian woman

The late, not so great, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly threatened Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, another not so great tech billionaire, with exposing him about an affair Gates allegedly had with a Russian card player, according to the Wall Street Journal. 

"Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes," a spokeswoman for Gates told the WSJ, hoping they would believe her. "Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates."

Gates met Russian bridge player Mila Antonova in 2010 at a bridge tournament. She was a fetching woman in her 20s and Gates was a homely, albeit bright man in his mid-50s. The alleged future bed partners played against each other at the tournament, according to the Journal. 

Antonova is originally from Mother Russia, but moved to the U.S. and began working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, as per her LinkedIn account.

She went public about meeting Gates in a 2010 video where she said she "didn't beat" Gates, but "tried to kick him with my leg." Gates is known to be a lover of bridge and an attempted lover of women not his who are not his wife.

Epstein, of course, was known to bring wealthy and important men to his so called Fantasy Island on his "Lolita Express" private jet to hook up with underage girls. Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump, Chris Tucker, the gay blade Kevin Spacey, and violinist Itzhak Perlman, to name a few.

Anyway, after meeting Gates, Ms. Antonova reached out to potential donors to back an online venture she wanted to start that teaches people how to play bridge. She contacted Gates confidant Boris Nikolic who connected her with Epstein, according to documents.

Then in November 2013, she and Nikolic reportedly met with Epstein in his New York City townhouse to pitch a proposal to attempt to raise half a million dollars. The WSJ citing Antonova reported that Epstein did not donate to the proposal named "BridgePlanet."

"I deeply regret that I ever met Epstein," Nikolic highlighted to the outlet. "His crimes were despicable. I never saw anything like his illegal behavior. My heart goes out to his victims and their families."

In November 2014, Antonova stayed at an Epstein provided apartment but said she "didn’t interact with him or with anyone else while there." It was that year when she decided to fold her hand and become a software engineer and sought out donors to help pay for programming classes rather than do what most people do, which is to either take out a student loan, or pay for their education themselves.

"Epstein agreed to pay and he paid directly to the school. Nothing was exchanged. I don’t know why he did that," she said, the outlet reported. "When I asked, he said something like, he was wealthy and wanted to help people when he could."

And if you believe that, you might also believe that Osama bin Laden attended his son's Bar Mitzvah.

Gates and Epstein had met a handful of times before Epstein's non-suicide in 2019. Gates being outed now regrets ever having had anything to do with Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine, whose name nobody knows how to pronounce.

In 2017, years after Gates' allegedly ended his affair with Antonova and threw her to the proverbial curb, Epstein emailed him about her, sources with knowledge of the incident told WSJ. 

She denied providing any information to WSJ about Gates specifically, the outlet noted.

Epstein reportedly asked Gates to reimburse him for the funds used to cover Antonova's software programming classes. Gates did not send a payment, according to Gates' spokeswoman.

"Mr. Gates had no financial dealings with Epstein," the spokeswoman claimed with a straight face.

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