Bill Gates has long been known as one of the world’s most successful businessmen, but after his ties to Jeffrey Epstein came to light, he and his closest confidants desperately scrambled to triage his withering reputation, according to a new report.

The Microsoft co-founder’s relationship with the pedophile financier became increasingly apparent after bombshell Department of Justice (DOJ) files showed that Gates allegedly slept with Russian girls, contracted a sexually-transmitted disease, and then planned to slip antibiotics to his then-wife, Melinda French Gates.

The astonishing claims, which were released on January 30, were part of emails that Epstein wrote and sent to himself on July 18, 2013.

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