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Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates And The Pursuit Of The Nobel Peace Prize

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According to reporting from former insiders at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and investigative journalists, Gates pursued a relationship with Epstein beginning around 2011 — not for friendship, but because Epstein claimed he could leverage his wide-reaching social network to help Gates secure a Nobel Peace Prize. Epstein allegedly told Gates’s foundation staff that he could open doors to influential “Nobel influencers,” positioning himself as a back-channel fixer for elite favors. Their contacts reportedly culminated in a 2013 meeting in France with Thorbjørn Jagland, then-chair of the committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize — a move widely interpreted as an attempt to put Gates in closer proximity to the Prize’s decision-makers.


Despite that outreach, the efforts appear to have failed. Gates has since publicly called his dealings with Epstein “a huge mistake,” saying in interviews that he first met Epstein hoping to raise philanthropic funds but that nothing materialized. The association, however, severely damaged Gates’s reputation, helped catalyze his divorce from Melinda French Gates, and raised deep questions about how the super-wealthy may try to game institutions meant to reward genuine service and altruism rather than influence and social connections.


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