Epstein files fallout? Bill Gates to skip keynote address at India AI Summit today

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will not speak at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the Gates Foundation confirmed on Thursday.

“After careful consideration and to ensure that the focus remains on the key priorities of the AI ​​Summit, Mr. Gates will not deliver the keynote address,” the Gates Foundation said. he said.

Although the Gates Foundation did not offer any specific reasons behind the cancellation of the Gates Foundation chairman’s keynote address, Gates recently became the center of controversy after new details about his relationship with disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in the latest release of the Epstein files by the US Department of Justice (DOJ).

Instead of the former Microsoft CEO, whose keynote speech at the artificial intelligence summit is among the most anticipated, the Gates Foundation will be represented by Ankur Vora, President of Africa and India.

Vora is scheduled to speak at the Summit later Thursday.

What did the Epstein files say about Bill Gates?

The Justice Department’s latest release of the Epstein files raised allegations about Gates and his relationship with the disgraced financier.

In an email dated July 18, 2013, Epstein wrote that he resigned from his position affiliated with the Gates Foundation and BG3, a think tank founded by Gates, “after becoming caught in the middle of a serious marital dispute between Melinda and Bill.”

Accordingly New York PostEpstein was likely making the allegations on behalf of Gates’ longtime science advisor Boris Nikolic, who had left the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the time.

“For the past few weeks I have been caught in the middle of a serious marital dispute between Melinda and Bill,” Epstein wrote in Nikolic’s voice in the July 18, 2013 email.

“… I was offered many times to be his right-hand man. [sic] and in hindsight, he mistakenly agreed to participate in things that ranged from the morally objectionable to the ethically unsound, and was repeatedly asked to do other things that approached the illegal and potentially crossed the line,” Epstein wrote in his email.

In a separate draft email to Gates, Epstein, like Nikolic, accused the Microsoft co-founder of orchestrating a “cover-up operation.” [sic] so you can maintain the reputation you worked so hard to achieve,” and secretly gave the antibiotics to his then-wife, Melinda French Gates.

“[You] please beg me to delete emails regarding your std [sic]”Your request that I give you antibiotics that you can secretly give to Melinda and the description of your penis,” Epstein wrote.

“…If Melinda decides to file for public divorce, as you say, I worry that the damage done to the hostage program alone will result in, as I do, billions of dollars of money no longer being used for social good. [sic] I am confident that some wives and husbands will feel free to back out of their commitments,” the draft email read.

According to an old rumor Wall Street Magazine According to the report, Epstein threatened to expose the Microsoft co-founder’s alleged relationship with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova in 2017, and it was claimed that the reason for this was that Gates did not participate in a charity.

How did Bill Gates react to these statements?

When the revelations came to light, Gates’ spokesperson completely denied Epstein’s claims.

“These allegations are absolutely ridiculous and completely false. All these documents show is Epstein’s frustration at not having an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and smear him,” the statement said.

Gates also flatly denied the allegations in an interview with him. Nine News Australia.

“This reminds me that I regret every minute I spent with him and apologize for doing so,” Gates said, adding that his decision to meet with Epstein was “stupid.”

Microsoft’s co-founder also described the statements about him in the recent documents section as “wrong”.

“Apparently Jeffrey wrote himself an email. This email was never sent, the email is fake,” Gates said. “So I don’t know what he was thinking there. Was he trying to attack me somehow?”

While Gates acknowledged meeting Epstein in 2011, he denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island.