{"id":67292,"date":"2026-02-25T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/bill-gates-apologizes-to-foundation-staff-for-jeffrey-epstein-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:55:16","slug":"bill-gates-apologizes-to-foundation-staff-for-jeffrey-epstein-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/bill-gates-apologizes-to-foundation-staff-for-jeffrey-epstein-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates apologizes to foundation staff for Jeffrey Epstein ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder admits affairs and calls meetings \u2018huge mistake\u2019 but denies involvement in Epstein\u2019s crimes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/bill-gates\">Bill Gates<\/a> apologized to staff of his foundation for his ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> and admitted to two affairs but stated he did not participate in the convicted sex offender\u2019s crimes, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bill-gates-apologizes-to-foundation-staff-over-epstein-ties-67f39ef5?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfdYa9TvL7EvYq7oof3OUjEkSuBoZmJNuVMnVP1_RjqiiaE7VG8dfrreJ8wwA%3D%3D&amp;gaa_ts=699efa93&amp;gaa_sig=HKr_SUdvEbcnD_Me5bfTRcT4h24i2cMax_HmgAlcvJ8VFjp9fXLh0IU4-DyCLB6z0oTCwO_XPPxRDxoMdEc8_A%3D%3D\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>At a town hall on Tuesday, Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist, said it was a \u201chuge mistake to spend time with Epstein\u201d and to bring Gates Foundation executives to meetings with Epstein.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/25\/bill-gates-apologizes-jeffrey-epstein-ties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder admits affairs and calls meetings \u2018huge mistake\u2019 but denies involvement in Epstein\u2019s crimes Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Bill Gates apologized to staff of his foundation for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and admitted to two affairs but stated he did not participate &#8230; <a title=\"Bill Gates apologizes to foundation staff for Jeffrey Epstein ties\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/bill-gates-apologizes-to-foundation-staff-for-jeffrey-epstein-ties\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bill Gates apologizes to foundation staff for Jeffrey Epstein ties\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}