A shocking new photo published by The Wall Street Journal appears to show Microsoft founder Bill Gates next to a Polish model in her 20s, who says she was one of financier Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims.
The friendship between Gates and Epstein is well documented, with the billionaire saying he regretted their relationship. The new photo was taken in 2014, six years after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to procuring a child for prostitution.
During an interview with CNN this year, host Sarah Ferguson asked Gates whether he had been warned by his ex-wife about Epstein's “way of sexually compromising people.”
In an interview with WSJ, the Polish model says she flew alongside Epstein in 2014 to meet with Gates at his Microsoft office in Seattle. She was one of many women ensnared by the pedophile with promises of a career and success. The photo was taken by Epstein himself, she claims.
'When I look at myself now, it couldn't have looked normal. I saw those people's looks, like, 'What is she doing here?'” she told the outlet. The woman also posed for a photo with disgraced Oscar winner Woody Allen.
Espstein and Gates pictured together at the pedophile financier's Manhattan home in 2011
Beginning in 2011, Gates met with Epstein several times. Gates attended dinners at Epstein's New York City home (pictured), the Wall Street Journal reported
The new photo reportedly shows the police model with Gates in his Microsoft office in 2014
Jeffrey Epstein took his own life in his Manhattan prison in August 2019
Gates, pictured earlier this month, has insisted his relationship with Epstein was purely related to philanthropic causes
A spokesperson for Gates told the Journal that he had no interaction with the model when she visited his office. According to her, Epstein had promised her a job at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
DailyMail.com has contacted Gates representatives for comment on this story.
The report adds that Epstein's accountant, Richard Kahn, wrote a letter in support of her visa application shortly after the meeting. The application stated that the woman would do work for the foundation in Africa.
An itinerary for a trip to Africa on behalf of the foundation was also emailed to the woman via Epstein, Gates Foundation deputy director Melanie Walker. Walker was also a visitor to the pedophile's Manhattan home.
Another woman linked to Epstein, a Russian model, allegedly showed a Wall Street Journal reporter three photos of her with Gates in three different places, including a hotel and Epstein's home.
She also said the photos were often Epstein's idea and that he told her to post them on social media.
“Epstein tried, without success, to connect himself to Mr. Gates in any way he could, including spontaneously enlisting people for photos with Bill who Bill did not know or have any further contact with. Mr. Gates met Epstein only for philanthropic purposes, which he regrets,” read a statement from the foundation to the Wall Street Journal.
The Polish model said she cut off contact with Epstein in 2015 when his various career promises never materialized.
'Unfortunately, I get the impression that becoming a mistress was the only job proposal you were really serious about. It was great to meet Gates or Woody – thank you – I'll never forget it – although no one hires me just because I have nice pictures with them,” she wrote to him in an email.
Earlier this year, it was widely reported that Epstein tried to use his knowledge of Gates' affair with Mila Antonova to blackmail him.
Epstein wanted Gates to invest in a multi-billion dollar charity fund in 2013, but he wouldn't comply.
Gates, who says bridge is one of his favorite hobbies, is said to have met Antonova at a tournament in 2010 and had an affair with her around the same time. He was 55 and she was in her twenties.
Epstein met her later, around 2013, when she wanted to raise money to start an online bridge platform. Although he did not fund the project, he later paid 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 suggested he knew about the affair and could expose it.
In a January 2023 interview with CNN, Gates was asked if he was “contrary” to his then-wife Melinda's advice to avoid Epstein.
“You're going way back in time…I shouldn't have had dinner with him,” he said.