{"id":73641,"date":"2026-06-09T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=73641"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:37:33","slug":"when-gates-testifies-about-epstein-will-the-mask-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2026\/06\/when-gates-testifies-about-epstein-will-the-mask-drop.html","title":{"rendered":"When Gates Testifies About Epstein, Will the Mask Drop?<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know that Bill Gates has done an immense amount of philanthropic work <\/a>through The Gates Foundation<\/a> <\/strong>for the good of millions of people and the planet itself. I simply had no idea what a creep he was when he ran Microsoft. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Bill Gates testifies on Wednesday, June 10,<\/a> about his involvement with Epstein.<\/em>
Will the mask drop?<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Gates was by many accounts a nightmare boss, \u201cprone to expletive-laden fits of rage,\u201d Anupreeta Das, a New York Times correspondent, is quoted by Ben Tarnoff as reporting in her new book Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her book includes multiple stories of Gates hitting on his subordinates; in 2000 he conducted an affair with an employee that led, after she reported it years later, to his departure from the Microsoft board in 2020.<\/strong> By the 1990s the unpleasant parts of Gates\u2019s personality were becoming more widely known. The press increasingly portrayed him as <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

arrogant, disdainful, indignant, angry, snide, condescending, petulant, contemptuous, truculent, evasive, hyperaggressive, despotic, bullying, an enfant terrible of the tech industry, 
and a robber baron.<\/strong><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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This public relations crisis culminated with the Justice Department\u2019s antitrust suit against Microsoft, which began in 1998 and continued for years. Gates\u2019s videotaped deposition from the trial remains a masterclass in how not to behave in a deposition: slouched and pouty, he debated the definition of words like \u201cwe\u201d and pretended not to understand simple questions. He was so obnoxious that when the Justice Department lawyers played excerpts in court, the judge laughed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I hope Gates is no longer that kind of creep . . . or any kind of creep. My guess is that he’s a reformed creep. Yes, it’s a low bar. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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POSTSCRIPT:<\/strong> June 11 \u2014<\/strong> The Washington Post reports<\/a> that Gates testified that he knew nothing of Epstein\u2019s crimes. In Gates’s opening statement, obtained by the newspaper, he said: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct. I never went to his island, his ranch, or his Florida home. I have never victimized anyone. While he may have sought to foster a personal relationship, I was never interested in that and never reciprocated.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Gates said Epstein was effectively blackmailing him with knowledge of his marital infidelity in order to “pressure” him into a relationship that he had cut off in 2014 after realizing that Epstein would not keep his promises to help raise funds for his foundation’s global health initiative. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<\/blockquote>\n
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