Is Bill Gates facing life behind bars on child rape charges due to his alleged inclusion on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's supposed client list? No, that's not true: The article making the claim offers no proof that any charges have been filed against billionaire Gates as of November 6, 2023. Gates' ex-wife Melinda did not post a social media message that he was going to prison -- that is a completely fabricated message that is included in the article. A list of Epstein's "clients" has never been publicly released as of November 6, 2023, and Gates has said "it was a huge mistake" regarding any time he spent with Epstein.
The story appeared in an article published by The People's Voice on November 2, 2023, titled "Bill Gates Facing Life Behind Bars on Child Rape Charges" (archived here) which opened:
Bill Gates has already lost his marriage due his friendship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, but he is about to lose a whole lot more, according to investigators who revealed the globalist billionaire is about to be thrown under the bus and prosecuted on child rape charges.
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Bill Gates Facing Life Behind Bars on Child Rape Charges - The People's Voice
Bill Gates has already lost his marriage due his friendship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, but he is about to lose a whole lot more, according to investigators who revealed the globalist billionaire is about to be thrown under the bus and prosecuted on child rape charges.
The article gives zero evidence that Gates is facing "life behind bars on child rape charges." There was no corroboration for the claim of the charges and few mentions of Gates in the article. He was mentioned as being on Epstein's list of people in a "little black book" but no details were given in the article about what significance being mentioned in such a book would have for anyone in the book.
The article claims:
Epstein's Little Black Book revealed it is not just politicians who are compromised in the worst possible way. Titans of industry and globalist elites including Bill Gates feature prominently. But we already knew that when Melinda Gates divorced her husband because he wouldn't break off his creepy friendship with the convicted pedophile with his island full of underage sex slaves.
Gates' relationship with Epstein is well documented in national news publications (archived here). In a 2021 interview with CNN (archived here), Gates said he only met within Epstein in hopes of raising money for global health issues. "It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there," Gates told CNN.
But there is no official "client list" of Epstein's that has been released as of publication date.
The article contains a screenshot of a purported message posted on Facebook by Bill's ex-wife Melinda Gates. This is a completely fabricated post. She uses the name Melinda French Gates on her official account, not Melinda Gates, as the message within the article does. While it is shown as the cover photo for the video within the article, no such message is ever shown during the 11-minute video that is just a person reading the text from the article. Here is what the message looked like in the article:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Mon Nov 6 20:35:26 2023 UTC)
And here is what her official Facebook page looked like at the time of writing (archived here):
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Mon Nov 6 20:40:12 2023 UTC)
A Google search for keywords "bill gates child rape charges" yields zero credible results (archived here).
Pedophilia is one of the recurring themes in many debunked conspiracy theories. Lead Stories debunked such claims here.
Other Lead Stories fact checks on claims regarding Bill Gates can be found here and on Jeffrey Epstein can be found here.
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