Bill Gates: ‘I Made a Mistake’ in Meeting With Jeffrey Epstein

Bill Gates talks to reporters about the 2016 annual letter from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in New York on Feb. 22, 2016. Seth Wenig/AP Photo

Billionaire Bill Gates said he shouldn’t have met with Jeffrey Epstein, the accused sex trafficker who killed himself in prison on Aug. 10.

At The New York Times’s Dealbook conference on Nov. 6, Gates said he shouldn’t have met with Epstein, a financier who was allegedly a billionaire but had a net worth of about $560 million when he died.