Gates Foundation Staff Held About Thirty Meetings With Jeffrey Epstein
Ten Gates Foundation leaders and staff account for those sit-downs, according to the law firm WilmerHale's letter to the foundation.
- The meetings ran from 2011 to 2014, the years WilmerHale's review actually covers.
- WilmerHale, the law firm conducting the review, dated its letter July 21, 2026.
- Staff raised reputational-risk concerns about Epstein at the time, WilmerHale's letter notes.
Why it matters: Ten foundation officers kept meeting a convicted trafficker for years before anyone called it disqualifying.
WilmerHale Review of the Gates Foundation's Engagement with Jeffrey Epstein (letter to the Gates Foundation) ↗ · Jul 22, 20267/22/26