{"id":24691,"date":"2019-10-12T19:37:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T23:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=24691"},"modified":"2019-10-12T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T00:00:01","slug":"department-of-understatement-bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/department-of-understatement-bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Understatement: Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/12\/business\/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html\">&#8220;Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past&#8221;<\/a> (NYT):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201c<strong>His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me<\/strong>,\u201d Mr. Gates emailed colleagues in 2011, after his first get-together with Mr. Epstein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost as good as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mind.ucsd.edu\/misc\/diversions\/sartre-cookbook.html\">The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Today I made a Black Forest cake out of five pounds of cherries and a live beaver, challenging the very definition of the word \u201ccake.\u201d I was very pleased. <strong>Malraux said he admired it greatly, but could not stay for dessert<\/strong>. Still, I feel that this may be my most profound achievement yet, and have resolved to enter it in the Betty Crocker Bake-Off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also in the article&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Mr. Gates, in turn, praised Mr. Epstein\u2019s charm and intelligence. Emailing colleagues the next day, he said: \u201c<strong>A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/european-perspective-on-jeffrey-epstein-brexit-immigration-and-donald-trump\/\">https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/european-perspective-on-jeffrey-epstein-brexit-immigration-and-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/richard-stallman-on-jeffrey-epstein-time-to-switch-from-emacs-to-vi\/\">https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/richard-stallman-on-jeffrey-epstein-time-to-switch-from-emacs-to-vi\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8220;Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past&#8221; (NYT): \u201cHis lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-sex"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Department of Understatement: Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/department-of-understatement-bill-gates-and-jeffrey-epstein\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Department of Understatement: Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein - Philip Greenspun\u2019s Weblog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From &#8220;Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past&#8221; 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