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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Bill Gates Admits to Multiple Affairs in Epstein Fallout

Microsoft founder Bill Gates spent his Tuesday doing something only the richest men in the world get to do: apologizing for behavior that would end anyone else’s career while facing absolutely no consequences whatsoever.

In a town hall with staff of the Gates Foundation, reported the Wall Street Journal, Gates apologized for extensive contact with deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein — years after his crimes were publicly well known — in a relationship which rubbed up against two extramarital affairs.

“I did have affairs, one with a Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities,” Gates told employees.

The billionaire insisted that, though the Russian women he slept with went on to meet Epstein at a later date, he had met them first. “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” Gates told staffers, per the WSJ.

Responding to images released in the latest tranche of Epstein files depicting Gates with young women whose faces were blurred, the billionaire insisted they were Epstein’s various assistants. “To be clear I never spent any time with victims, the women around him,” he said.

Going on, Gates admitted that he didn’t do a proper background check before meeting with the infamous pedophile in 2011 — three years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution.

“I apologize to other people who are drawn into this because of the mistake that I made,” Gates said. “Knowing what I know now makes it, you know, a hundred times worse in terms of not only his crimes in the past, but now it’s clear there was ongoing bad behavior.”

Despite traveling with Epstein across Europe and the US well into 2014, the Microsoft co-founder insisted that he “never stayed overnight.”

The latest tranche of Epstein documents is shedding new light on the relationship between Gates and the infamous financier, as well as the former’s extramarital affairs. For years after Epstein’s death, the narrative that emerged was one of blackmail, particularly over Gates’ affair with Mila Antonova, a Russian bridge player.

One of the women referenced in Gates’ apology speech, Antonova first met the tech mogul at a bridge tournament in 2010, per previous reporting by the WSJ. Antonova wouldn’t meet Epstein until November 2013, a relationship which afforded the Russian woman a tidy sum of cash to cover her schooling.

It wasn’t until 2017 that the alleged blackmail episode began, according to the WSJ, when the pedophile financier approached Gates to cover the cost of Antonova’s schooling.

“It was a huge mistake to spend time with Epstein,” Gates told his staffers.

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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk

Ten years ago, betting your life savings against the success of Elon Musk would have seemed like financial suicide. A year after DOGE’s disastrous collapse, one man who did exactly that is cashing out bigtime.

New reporting by the Wall Street Journal detailed the story of Alan Cole, an ivy league tax economist who bet $342,195.63 — the sum of his life savings, he says — on a bold gamble on the prediction market Kalshi.

The bet, placed in 2025, was simple: if Musk and his DOGE boys failed to cut federal spending in 2025 below what it was in the fourth quarter of 2024, Cole was due for a huge payout. Of course, that’s exactly what happened — though Musk cut a boatload of government workers during his short stint in Washington, he fell far short of the $2 trillion in cuts he originally promised.

So of course, Cole got his payday. Per the WSJ, at Cole’s peak, he had over 3 percent of one $12 million “federal-spending” book under his control. Given that prediction markets are wagers against other bettors, rather than the platform itself, he was positioned to win big.

“The virtue of the matching market is that you can take the good side of a bad bet — someone else’s bad bet,” he told the WSJ.

Good side, indeed. When the federal government’s final tally from 2025 hit on February 20, Cole’s ridiculous gamble looked more like a sure-fire bet. Per the WSJ, the lowest spending ever got in 2025 was still $66 billion above the threshold Cole needed it to maintain.

Kalshi ended up paying out $470,300, a profit of around 37 percent — which, depending on how how strong a stomach you have, isn’t bad for a year’s worth of risk.

“There’s a little bit of that feeling of vindication,” the tax economist said.

While Cole’s bet might look obvious in hindsight, it’s a pretty substantial fortune to put up on such a long-term bet. That set-up makes Cole relatively unique among prediction markets’ headliners, many of whom are suspected of exploiting insider info to dupe rubes for short-term gains.

Particularly egregious incidents include the Venezuelan air-strike bets, in which a suspected US government insider won over $400,000 for a wager placed just hours before the deadly strikes on Caracas. Elsewhere, a group of Israeli civilians and military members were arrested after walking away with over $150,000 obtained from well-timed bets anticipating Israel’s upcoming strikes.

So while Cole’s bet may have been risky, he can at least take comfort knowing that, in the sleazy world of prediction markets, he’s nowhere near the bottom.

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