Epstein bankrolled Bill Gates' reported ex-girlfriend for years--then asked Gates to 'reimburse' him five months before

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

he died

“Playing with fire.”

So read an April 30, 2018 email Jeffrey Epstein sent to Bill Gates’ chief of staff, Larry Cohen, according to files released by the Department of Justice.

Epstein had just put up Mila Antonova in one of his Upper East Side apartments for the week, he told Cohen. Antonova, a Russian bridge player who told Fortune through her lawyer that she had “a relationship” with Gates around 2010, and has been reported elsewhere to have been his mistress, had been receiving financial help from Epstein for years. Epstein wanted Gates to know.

In fact, Epstein had wanted Gates to know for a long time.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/playing-fire-epstein-bankrolled-bill-095900161.html

Wonder how many others Epstein tried to blackmail.

[Ponietz]

1. I think "Israeli agent" every time I see Epstein's name

Byline: “Israeli agent blackmails Bill Gates’ girlfriend.” Is there anyone who seriously doubts this? If so, why?

[marybourg]

4. Could you share the relationship between Epstein and Israel?

[3_Limes]

5. I'm curious about this too.

Unfortunately I don't think that the info we want is very avaliable. Spies usually try to keep things quiet. So we're left with Ppeople's best guesses and conjecture.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Leverage

Leaked Emails Reveal Jeffrey Epstein's Connections to the Surveillance Industry

by Matthew Petti
Reason, Wed, August 27, 2025

After his first arrest for sex crimes, Jeffrey Epstein tried to get into a new line of work: surveillance. In 2015, he partnered with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to invest in a security tech startup called Reporty Homeland Security, now known as Carbyne. Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin's circle.

After he was first caught sexually exploiting teenage girls, Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution in 2008; he served a little over a year in detention. Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and "efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you," according to The New York Times.

The leaked emails show that Epstein was also interested in more mundane means of spying on and manipulating people, which overlapped with the technologies governments often pursue. This interest crossed borders.

Barak's email inbox was quietly posted by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a website widely considered to be a successor to WikiLeaks, on a file-sharing platform for verified journalists and researchers in May 2025. The contents came from Handala, a hacker group named for a Palestinian cartoon character that has been leaking files taken from senior Israeli officials for several months.

Although the emails were posted without technical metadata or cryptographic signatures that would allow their authenticity to be verified, they include dozens of images, videos, voice recordings, and scanned documents from Barak and his friends and family that have never been published elsewhere. And they include information that was not publicly known at the time of the email leaks, including a reference to Epstein's birthday book.

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https://reason.com/2025/08/27/inside-jeffrey-epsteins-spy-industry-connections/

[Ponietz]

9. Thank you for posting this

[Kid Berwyn]

28. You are most welcome. I don't like evil employed in service of anyone.

From almost a year ago...

US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence

by Jim DeBrosse
The Electronic Intifada, 25 July 2025

Noticeably absent from US news coverage of US President Donald Trump’s waffling over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files is any mention of the child sex predator’s apparent ties to Israeli intelligence.

A 13 July Nexis search of US news outlets found that, of the 383 stories unleashed by Trump’s broken promise to reveal everything Epstein, only a single article broached ties between Epstein and Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad – and then tried to undercut it.

The single story that did mention Mossad links, on 10 July in Atlantic Online, the online edition of The Atlantic Monthly, merely dismissed those making a case for Epstein’s ties to Mossad as “a claim often expressed with anti-Semitic rhetoric.”

Such omission, however, didn’t stop former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on 14 July from rejecting any Epstein-Mossad links as “categorically and totally false.”

Snip...

MintPress investigative reporter Whitney Webb summarized an interview by former CBS News executive producer and Narativ investigative journalist Zev Shalev with former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence Ari Ben-Menashe. There, Webb summed up, Ben-Menashe claimed “not only to have met Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in the 1980s, but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence during that time period.”

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https://electronicintifada.net/content/us-media-barely-touches-epstein-links-israeli-intelligence/50822

The thing is: It's not just Israel. Epstein sent word he knew Trump real well to Vladimir Putin.

Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump

Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.

By KYLE CHENEY and NAHAL TOOSI
Politico, 11/12/2025

Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top diplomat: If you want to understand Trump, talk to me.

“I think you might suggest to putin that lavrov can get insight on talking to me,” Epstein wrote in a June 24, 2018, email to Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who was leading the Council of Europe at the time of the exchange. Lavrov was an apparent reference to Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister.

In the email exchange, one of hundreds released Wednesday by congressional investigators, Epstein indicated he had previously talked about Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s forceful ambassador to the United Nations, before Churkin died in 2017.

“Churkin was great,” Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, wrote. “He understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something its that simple.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919

Above, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office. “You call it 'Leverage.' We call it, 'Blackmail.' Whatever. It works.”

Sheldon Whitehouse has all the story. Including Donald Barr hiring Jeffrey Epstein to teach at the Dalton School.

[yellow dahlia]

30. Thanks Kid!

[niyad]

13. Apart from the posts below, we have maxwell's father robert and his mossad

connections.

[BattleRow]

17. So litlle attention is paid to this elephant in the Epstein menagerie.

Wonder why? Asking for a friend....

[niyad]

21. T'is a puzzlement!

[Callie1979]

22. Why not Russia? Plenty of evidence that Russia was heavily involved with him.

[Easterncedar]

26. Of course Russia

So much evidence.

[angryxyouth]

25. Sheldon White House on the Senate floor

Last week put together the evidence that linked Epstein to Russia even more.

[yellow dahlia]

31. Sheldon Whitehouse does a great job of presenting the evidence, and connecting the dots.

[SunSeeker]

2. Good grief, how could Bill Gates allow himself to be put in that situation?

Worse, how could he do that to his amazing wife?

He had all that money and still could not be happy.

[erronis]

10. There's this thing between the legs that has a mind of its own. And when it wants....

Us men get called out for using our little heads too often. I expect some women may have similar problems.

[marybourg]

27. And when we get old, the little head

goes to live in our bladder and pushes us around from there.

[GreenWave]

11. It's the old saying, "If you are so rich, how come you're not smart!"

[Callie1979]

23. Look at Tiger Woods. GORGEOUS wife but still cheated with strippers

Most men have "thoughts".
Some men have serious PROBLEMS. WHY would Woods do what he did? Or so many other VERY wealthy men?

[AZJonnie]

3. Okay, but only as long as Gates isn't fully let off the hook by claiming he was blackmailed by Epstein

It's not far-fetched to imagine Gates was trying to keep his affair secret by having Epstein support his girlfriend. That way he could hide the payoffs to his mistress from Melinda by making them look like business affairs (he pays back Epstein, IOW). Once Epstein was in deep shit, Gates couldn't countenance having him on his AP ledger anymore, but what if he actually still "legit" owed Epstein $$$ for what he'd laid out for supporting Antonova on Bill's behalf?

I bring this up because we can still drag Bill Gates for his shady part in the Epstein story, whereas Epstein's reputation was already pretty well underwater even before his demise, and falling further ever since.

[flvegan]

6. "Tried" to blackmail? I think we can agree he didn't just try, he did. n/t

[NJCher]

14. yes

there was a scintilla of subtlety in his request for payback $$.

But that's it. A scintilla.

OK, maybe you prefer a four-letter word. I'll go with iota.

[Prairie Gates]

8. Eastern European women set up with rich, prominent Americans

With Epstein at the center of it.

Red sparrows in every direction.

[GreenWave]

12. If only Trump were a sucker for them!

[NJCher]

15. what do you think Melania is?

Ordinary beards don't get paid $275,000 for public appearances with the not-so-prominent but well-known dolt.

[GreenWave]

33. I see I forgot the winkie thing,

[Arazi]

18. Ivana and Melania both qualify

[GreenWave]

34. I truly forgot the winkie thing.

and subsequently

[bluestarone]

16. Very sad that Gates was involved, BUT i'm thinking they (TSF, DOJ,and others) want us to

Be hearing about THIS rather than TSF's FILES!! We WILL someday hear the REST OF THE STORY!! (i hope)

[twodogsbarking]

19. My life is dull. Much better.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

20. What a web Epstein spun..trapping all these stupid billionaires

[bluestarone]

29. True, BUT there was a market for sexual predators i guess.

Epstein being one of them, with russia and TSF, and a whole country of STUPID Americans made this a perfect storm for sure!!

[Callie1979]

24. So this woman wasnt underage. Is there any evidence that there were underage women?

I've only read excerpts of "girls in their 20s"

[Ruby the Liberal]

32. Equal Opportunity Blackmail

One guy is filmed raping a child, another (high visibility one) cheating on his wife, someone else doing shady shit in whatever country elected them to leadership.