Messages in the latest Epstein files suggesting that Bill Gates had engaged in extramarital sex brought up “painful” memories, his former wife said in an interview.

Melinda French Gates has said her ex-husband Bill Gates "needs to answer questions" over the new revelations in the latest release of documents relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

An email dated 2013 showed Epstein wrote about “helping Bill to get drugs, in order to deal with consequences of sex with russian girls” and “facilictating [sic] his illicit trysts, with married women...