Melinda Gates Was ‘Furious’ About Bill’s Relationship With Epstein – Report Crazed technocrat's wife wanted “nothing to do” with Epstein Alex Jones proven right again! Image Credit: Share Email The Daily Beast. The Microsoft co-founder, who publicly denied in 2019 having “any business relationship or friendship” with the convicted sex offender, still met with him on numerous occasions since the two got acquainted in 2011 – just three years after Epstein admitted to procuring an underage girl for prostitution in Florida, The New York Times has previously revealed. Nothing was known however about Bill and his then-wife Melinda’s “secret” meeting with Epstein at the financier’s Upper East Side apartment in September 2013. The couple’s friends now tell the Daily Beast that the meeting, which reportedly took place on the same day the Gates were awarded the Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service prize for their philanthropic work, left the woman fairly “uncomfortable.”