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Melinda Gates has launched a brand new memoir titled The Subsequent Day.

And whereas her cut up from billionaire Microsoft founder Invoice Gates has been largely amicable, he’s most likely not solely thrilled with the best way he’s portrayed in his ex’s new e-book.

Although the dissolution of her marriage is just not the central focus of the memoir, Melinda does present new particulars pertaining to the occasions of 2019, the yr, she says, when her relationship with Invoice started to crumble.

The start of the top for Invoice and Melinda

“That October, issues had reached a fever pitch when The New York Occasions printed a deeply disturbing article that raised critical questions on Invoice’s conduct — questions that steered he had betrayed not solely our marriage but in addition my values,” reads a bit of the e-book excerpted at this time by Web page Six.

In accordance with Web page Six, the article Melinda refers to contained details about Invoice’s alleged affairs, in addition to his conferences with the late intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Melinda first expressed her displeasure with the Epstein conferences in a 2022 interview:

“I didn’t like that he had conferences with Jeffrey Epstein, no. I made that clear to him,” she mentioned on the time.

She admits to assembly with Epstein as soon as, as a result of she “needed to see who” he was. However she says she immediately regretted the choice.

“I regretted it the second I walked within the door,” Melinda mentioned. “He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. My coronary heart breaks for these ladies.”

Invoice ultimately got here to share Melinda’s low opinion of Epstein.

“On reflection, I used to be silly to spend any time with him,” he just lately instructed the Wall Road Journal whereas selling his personal memoir, Supply Code.

“I believe I used to be fairly silly. I believed it will assist me with world well being philanthropy. The truth is, it failed to do this. It was simply an enormous mistake.”

In accordance with the outlet, Epstein threatened to reveal Invoice’s alleged affair with Russian bridge participant Mila Antonova in 2017 after the tech billionaire declined to hitch his charitable fund with JPMorgan Chase.

A brand new day

In her e-book, which hit shops Tuesday, Melinda wrote that leaving her marriage “was one of many hardest and most necessary issues I’ve ever carried out.”

Nowadays, each events have moved on to new relationships: her with entrepreneur boyfriend, Philip Vaughn, him with philanthropist Paula Hurd.

Insiders say Invoice and Melinda have been amicably co-parenting their three youngsters — but it surely appears like Melinda can be the primary to confess that the cut up was not at all times a simple one.

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