Melinda French Gates said she was upset with Bill Gates’s past meetings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, addressed the Microsoft Corp. co-founder’s prior affair and said the two have a working relationship focused on philanthropy, speaking in her first television interview since she and Mr. Gates divorced last year.
Ms. French Gates said during a CBS interview that aired Thursday there were many matters that led to the billionaires’ divorce but she didn’t like that Mr. Gates had meetings with Mr. Epstein and made that clear to Mr. Gates. She said she met with Mr. Epstein one time herself. “I wanted to see who this man was, and I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door,” Ms. French Gates said in the interview. “I had nightmares about it afterwards; my heart breaks for these young women.”
