A spokesperson for Bill Gates confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein 'worked aggressively' to meet with him in 2013, a year before giving $2 million to MIT.
Sources with direct knowledge of the lobbyingthat Epstein used his powerful network of business associates to aggressively pursue the Microsoft founder, leading to an early 2013 meeting the two had with a group of other philanthropists in New York. Gates was bombarded by people speaking on Epstein's behalf, CNBC reports.
Some time afterward, Gates used one of Epstein's private planes to fly to Palm Beach, where the financier was convicted of two counts of soliciting prostitution from a minor five years earlier. And a year later, emails obtainedshow MIT Media Lab directors saying Gates was"directed by" Epstein to donate $2 million to the research lab.
A spokesperson for Gates confirmed to Business Insider that both the tech titan and Epstein were present at a meeting"focused on philanthropy," but that Epstein"never provided services of any type to Bill." The spokesperson also contradicted the emails sent by MIT Media Lab directors, saying"Any claim that Epstein directed any programmatic or personal grantmaking for Bill Gates is completely false.
In July, Epstein was arrested at the Teterboro airport in New Jersey - the same airport Gates flew out of on the wealthy sex offender's plane, flight records say - on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy. He died by suicide in jail in August, before his trial could begin.
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