Jeffrey Epstein revealed that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player, then apparently used the information to threaten him. The Microsoft founder met the actress around 2010, when she was in her 20s, and he was in his 50s.
Epstein met with the actress in 2013 and later paid her to attend programming school. In 2017, he sent Gates an email asking him for reimbursement of the cost of the course. The implication behind the announcement, according to people who saw it, is that Epstein implicitly threatened to expose Gates' alleged affair.