Last year, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda suddenly separated and divorced.
At that time, the two announced that they broke up peacefully. Not many details were exposed, only gossip in various newspapers.
Bill Gates has never explained this in public.
He only expressed that the divorce made him very shocked and sad, as if he did not want things to turn out like this...
However, in March this year, his ex-wife Melinda confirmed something for the first time in a TV interview:
The reason for their divorce was that Bill Gates repeatedly cheated on his wife during their marriage and met with the tycoon Epstein many times.
When reporters tried to ask about the details of various divorces, Melinda said directly and domineeringly:
"This is a question that Bill needs to answer."
So, the pressure came to Bill Gates.
Countless reporters swarmed in, trying to pry open Bill Gates' mouth and asking about various "details" of the divorce.
Recently, in an interview, Bill Gates finally responded to this accusation under questioning:
"I did make a mistake..."
In an interview with "TODAY", host Savannah Guthrie directly The question asked: "Are you unfaithful in your marriage? Is this one of the reasons for divorce?"
said it so clearly that Bill Gates obviously had no way to avoid it.
So he replied: "I did make a mistake, and I have to take responsibility."
He didn't want to say anything more, refused to confirm any accusation, and immediately wanted to change the subject.
"I don't think there's any point in getting into the details on this issue.
But yes, I caused (Melinda's) pain and I feel terrible about it."
But this scandal , it’s not that he doesn’t want to answer because he doesn’t want to. More pointed questions are still waiting for him.
host Guthrie then went on to ask: "Why did you continue to meet with Epstein? When you met him, he was already a convicted sex offender. Do you regret it?" ”
In 2008, Epstein was convicted of inciting a minor to prostitute himself.
But when Bill Gates met Epstein for the first time in 2011, he "hit it off" with him and even invited him to a fundraising dinner for the Gates Foundation .
Gates responded:
"I made a huge mistake. Not just meeting him, but meeting him multiple times...
My intention was to raise money for global health, but I didn't realize that he actually "
Melinda thought Epstein was an evil person when she first met him and even had nightmares.
Bill Gates ignored him at the time and regrets it now:
"Melinda's advice was right. I should have listened to her a long time ago. He is indeed a bad person and I should not have met him."
Bill Gates said , he wants to put his association with Epstein on his "list of major mistakes."
"I had dinner with him, and I regret doing so."
But he then defended himself:
"I thought he was interested in donating billions of dollars to global health charities, and when I realized By the time this doesn't happen, our relationship will be over."
" I thought something good would come of our association, but didn't realize it would add to his credibility or mean "I forgive him for those actions." "
He claimed that he and Epstein had "absolutely no business partnership or personal friendship."
All meetings between the two men were to discuss charity.
However... the media revealed that he had "absolutely no business partnership or personal friendship" with Epstein in March 2013. On the 1st, the notorious "Lolita" flew from New Jersey to Epstein's Palm Beach estate, where the party was held.
Another source said: "Bill Gates visited Epstein's lair. 'It was to escape marriage and the relationship between the two of them was very close. "
However, it is difficult to really reveal the details of the dealings between these rich men.
People can only know that he went, he stayed there, and then he left.
As for the madness in that closed manor, What they really did and said at the party will always be a mystery that cannot be proven.
... Unless, like Musk, this rich man will post everything on the Internet.
In a recent interview, Bill Gates also responded to another incident that caused a lot of noise.
That was some time ago, when Musk acquired and Twitter , he exposed a video between him and Bill Gates. The chat record of the quarrel.
On April 23, a Twitter user named WholeMarsBlog suddenly posted a chat record asking @Musk: Is this true?
The chat record shows that the opposite person is Bill Gates, screenshot The person is Musk himself.
Musk asked him: "Do you still hold a short position of Tesla? "
Bill Gates: "Unfortunately, I haven't cleared my stock yet. But I’d rather talk to you about climate change philanthropy. "
(short position = Bill Gates expects Tesla's stock price to fall)
and Musk's response is also very characteristic: "Then I'm sorry, I will not sit with people who are preparing to short Tesla. Let’s seriously discuss climate change philanthropy together. "
" After all, we at Tesla have done more than any other company to solve the problem of climate change. "
This kind of rhetoric has no credibility when sent out, but Musk really responded to this tweet.
"This is true. But I didn’t break the news to the media. Someone probably got it through a friend of my friend. "
Musk said that he heard from people at TED that Bill Gates had a $500 million short position in Tesla, so he went to consult and found that there was nothing to keep secret.
But if you think about it carefully ...
The current richest man in the world quarreled with the former richest man in the world, a primary school student. After the quarrel, he shared screenshots of the quarrel with his friends, who then continued to gossip and shared it with their friends...
Then after this chat record was made public, the current richest man in the world also He continued to ridicule triumphantly and sent personal attacks with emojis...
Only Musk can do this
("If you need to be upset, watch this", using the pregnant man emoji to mock Bill Gates for his weight gain. )
After all, their feud lasted more than a day or two.
In March 2015, Bill Gates and Musk met for the first time to discuss artificial intelligence at the Boao Forum for Asia .
The two seemed to have a good conversation, and both agreed that "the development of artificial intelligence is a general trend, but it cannot be rushed."
However, if you take a closer look, you will find that this view is simply "nonsense literature" in a sense...
In fact, the two people have completely different attitudes towards artificial intelligence.
Gates firmly believes that artificial intelligence will only make human beings better, and vigorously developing artificial intelligence will make the world a better place;
Musk believes that artificial intelligence will threaten human life in the future, becoming like an omnic crisis. The presence.
So after that, the differences in views between the two people became more and more serious.
In 2018, Bill Gates publicly questioned Musk's " Hyperloop " project and felt it was unsafe.
In 2019, Bill Gates said that Tesla is able to occupy market share now because of government tax credits. In the future, it will be more difficult for Tesla after other electric vehicle manufacturers join.
In 2020, Bill Gates said that he did not choose Tesla, but bought the Porsche electric car Taycan as his first electric car.
In 2021, Bill Gates said that we cannot underestimate Musk, but Tesla is only doing "very simple things" and driving is only one-third of the climate change problem.
"We should focus more on the other two-thirds", such as steel, cement, and meat.
Musk obviously hates others pointing fingers at his baby Tesla, and scolded him directly on Twitter: "I once talked to Bill Gates, but it was very boring."
In 2020, Musk was still on Twitter Publicly targeted Bill Gates on the Internet:
"Bill Gates is not my lover."
"The rumors about Bill Gates and I being in love are completely false."
Regarding this slightly ridiculous ridicule attack, as a "traditional rich man" Bill Gates did not respond again, and the feud between the two came to an end.
But this time, after Musk mocked himself by posting a pregnant man emoji, Bill Gates finally couldn't sit still anymore and began to publicly fight back against Musk.
Bill Gates said that although Musk bought Twitter for the sake of free speech,...
"He may actually make things worse."
Bill Gates' words were very tactful. :
"He did a great job with Tesla and Space Hire great engineers, he's probably the best."
"But..."
"I doubt this success will ever happen again.
He continued:
"Indeed, we should keep an open mind. , Musk cannot be underestimated "
" But when he talks about freedom of speech, then he is very concerned about the ridiculous statements that are spread on social media such as 'Vaccines will kill people' or 'Bill Gates is monitoring all mankind'. What is his opinion? "
" What is his ultimate goal? "
In a sense, Bill Gates and Musk are two completely different types of rich people.
Bill Gates is the kind of old-school "gentleman" who must be decent - even if he has done the most unseemly things and met the most annoying people, he still has to maintain his appearance for the sake of superficial elegance.
And Musk, in the circle of rich people, is like a catfish thrown into the sardines group, muddying up the water in the pond.
He will disclose many things, whether "respectable" or not, to the world.
At this moment, probably the melon-eating netizens all over the world have the same thought in their hearts: fight! Fight! Tear louder!
Looking forward to the next confrontation between Gates and Musk...
