Bill Gates Abruptly Cancels Big Event After Epstein Files Bombshells

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Feb. 19 2026 6:09AM EST
Published Feb. 19 2026 6:02AM EST


Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pulled out of a major tech summit just hours before he was due to deliver a flagship speech amid fresh scrutiny of his ties to pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

“After careful consideration, and to ensure the focus remains on the AI Summit’s key priorities, Mr. Gates will not be delivering his keynote address,” the Gates Foundation said in a statement issued shortly before its chair was due to speak at Thursday’s event in India.

The tech tycoon has consistently denied as “false” new allegations contained in the Justice Department’s latest release of case files on Epstein’s crimes.

Draft emails from that cache, seemingly addressed from the disgraced financier to himself and dated well after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor, show Epstein writing about facilitating “sex with Russian girls” on Gates’ behalf.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-gates-abruptly-cancels-big-event-after-jeffrey-epstein-files-bombshells/

[FakeNoose]

1. I believe he just doesn't want to deal with nasty/silly questions from the news media

I really doubt that Bill Gates ever needed Epstein's help in finding female companionship.

[angrychair]

3. It was never about companionship

It was about control. Not in the normal sense but in the depraved and sick way.

Dude needs to retire, disappear from public view and just never speak in public ever again. He is a twisted and evil asshole.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. He new the guy was poison

and associated with him anyway.

That's a choice.

[Ojerly]

11. Maybe he needed help

finding the REALLY YOUNG ones!

[Katcat]

13. Females he probably didn't

Kids on the other hand aren’t as easy to come by

[angrychair]

2. Guy is a scumbag

It's amazing how pretty much every single billionaire is a scumbag..

The best thing that can happen is this guy retires from public life, shuts the fuck up forever and we never hear his name or voice again unless it's in historical footage.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. It seems that the quest

for Smaug levels of cash strips the soul bare of humanity.

[angrychair]

6. Agreed

That does appear to be the case. Only difference is at least Smaug was honest about who he was.

[twodogsbarking]

7. He has to pick his girlfriend up at middle-school.

That was disgusting. Shame on me.

[progree]

8. A friend of mine found this in the archives

https://archive.ph/Dj7V4

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I can usually find the msn version (wasn't there when I initially posted but is there now)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bill-gates-abruptly-cancels-big-event-after-epstein-files-bombshells/ar-AA1WF4Z0

[PatrickforB]

10. The elites who have long called the shots and have screwed the 99% over and over and over are finally

coming unraveled. The curtains are parting and everyone is now peering in to see what a despicable bunch of immoral assholes these billionaires actually are.

Wall Street is NOT Main Street and Wall Street and these economic elites are trying to take everything. Funny how these Epstein files came up just as the oligarchs made their power move, isn't it?

[Jarqui]

12. More than 1,000 victims

Epstein is the only one caught ...

DoJ hides the others ...

Denials are increasingly hard to believe

[58Sunliner]

14. They are draft emails that were not sent?

[reACTIONary]

15. Yes. That is what the article said....

"Unsent emails claimed Epstein advised Microsoft co-founder on hiding an STD from his wife, which Gates denies."

[NJCher]

16. I saw Melinda French, his former wife

react to the news when it came out and she was clearly traumatized. I think she said she cried about it. And Gates himself took it very seriously and seemed crushed that this news had come out.

That's why I think it might be true that his wife was infected and he tried to administer antibiotics without her knowing.

I recall her body language at the end of that comment. She waved it away and said she was glad she'd gotten divorced and was now away from it all. This indicates to me that she didn't have the whole ugly truth at the time, and now she does.

I agree with the poster Katcat upthread (post 13) who said that Gates could probably get other women but kids are hard to find (for that purpose). Not only that, but let's remember that Epstein had that built into his system--that no kid would go public with an accusation--because he kept them on islands, ranches, and the like. It worked well for a long time. Until it didn't.