Fact Check: Bill Gates And Ghislaine Maxwell Are NOT First Cousins Through Gates' Mom, Mary Maxwell Gates

Are Ghislaine Maxwell and Bill Gates first cousins through Gates' mom, Mary Maxwell Gates? No, that's not true. Public records show multi-billionaire Gates is not related to the woman arrested in October of 2020 for luring young women Jeffery Epstein then sexually abused. For Bill Gates and Ghislaine Maxwell to be first cousins sharing Bill's mother's maiden name, Maxwell would need to be the child of Bill Gates' maternal uncle. But Gates' mother, Mary Maxwell Gates was an only child, according to her father's obituary.