News story includes an alleged photo of Gates standing next to the Russian-born bridge player, Mila Antonova. Click the link below to view. While the brief affair supposedly took place around 2010, Melinda Gates didn't file for divorce until 2021. What kept her from doing so?
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Epstein threatened to expose Bill Gates’s affair with Russian Bridge player
by Raymond Hicks
The Madison Leader Gazette
May 21, 2023

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Jeffrey Epstein threatened to expose an affair Bill Gates allegedly had with a Russian bridge player in 2010 when the Microsoft co-founder declined to join his philanthropic venture, according to a report on Sunday.

The disgraced pedophile, who killed himself in 2019, appeared to threaten Gates over the alleged affair with Russian card-wiz Mila Antonova in a 2017 email, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Gates met Antonova in 2010, with the two playing in a tournament together after she moved to the Bay Area to work as a software engineer, the newspaper said.

While Antonova acknowledged that she was on friendly terms with Gates during a 2010 video about her love of bridge, the two allegedly had a brief romance while Gates was still married to his then-wife, (Me)Linda Gates, sources told the Journal.

Epstein, meanwhile, met Antonova while she was looking for financial backers for a bridge academy.