Jeffrey Epstein ‘threatened to expose Bill Gates’ 2010 affair with Russian bridge player

Jeffrey Epstein used his knowledge of Bill Gates‘ 2010 affair with a Russian bridge player to threaten the Microsoft billionaire, a bombshell new report claims.

The pedophile, who killed himself in 2019, wanted Gates to participate in a multibillion-dollar charitable fund in 2017 and heavily implied that unless he did he would reveal his infidelity.

Gates, who has said that bridge is one of his favorite hobbies, met player Mila Antonova at a tournament in 2010 and had an affair with her at around the same time, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Epstein met her later in 2013 when she was trying to raise money to start an online bridge platform. Though he didn’t bankroll he project he did later pay for her to attend a software coding school. 

The ‘threat’ was not made until 2017 when Epstein wrote to Gates asking for reimbursement for Antonova’s coding school in a tone that implied he knew about the affair and could expose it.

In a YouTube video from 2010, bridge player Antonova discussed meeting Bill Gates in 2010 and displayed a picture of the pair together

Pictured: Jes Staley, Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates and Boris Nikolic. Nikolic in the right of the frame was an advisor to Gates and the person who introduced Mila Antonova to Epstein in 2013 when she was trying to raise funds for an online bridge platform

A spokesperson for Gates told the Journal that he did not pay for the cost of Antonova’s coding school, which was ‘immaterial for the two men’.

‘Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates,’ said a spokeswoman for Gates to the Wall Street Journal, who first revealed the connection.

A picture of Gates and Antonova together was shown in a YouTube video from 2010 in which she talks about meeting the billionaire at a bridge tournament. According to the Journal the affair happened at around the same time.

Then in 2013 Antonova was introduced to Epstein through an advisor to Gates, Boris Nikolic, in order to help her raise money to fund the online bridge business, called BridgePlanet, according to documents seen by the Journal.

She was hoping to raise $500,000 for the venture, the mission of which was to ‘promote bridge by creating quality tutorials for beginners and advanced players’.

After failing to secure funds for BridgePlanet, she shifted her focus to becoming a software developer and Epstein agreed to pay for her education. 

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

Antonova also told the Journal that the next year in 2014 during a trip to New York City she stayed in an apartment provided to her by Epstein but did not meet him. 

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