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Bill Gates’ name is listed on a flight to Palm Beach, Florida. Not to Epstein Island.
Gates’ name is listed in the documents for a flight on March 1, 2013, from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Palm Beach, Florida, according to flight logs published by FactCheck.org.
Bridgitt Arnold, a spokesperson for Gates, told the New York Times that Gates was unaware that it was Epstein’s plane.
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Poynter
Evidence does not support a claim that Bill Gates went to Jeffrey Epstein’s Island, much less ‘37 times’
Subpoenaed flight logs show that Gates traveled on Epstein’s plane once, from New Jersey to Florida.
May 30, 2023
Billionaire and philanthropist and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates met with financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein many times. But false claims about the location of those meetings and why the two met are spreading online.
A short video posted to Instagram on May 20 starts with an image of Gates along with text on the screen: “37 Epstein visits” and “Bill Gates.”
The post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)
Gates and Epstein did meet together, multiple times, to discuss philanthropic opportunities. But records don’t show that Gates went to Epstein’s island, which is in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Reuters fact-checked a similar claim in 2020, a year after Epstein was found dead by suicide in a jail cell following criminal charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. Subpoenaed flight logs obtained by the press showed Gates flew on Epstein’s plane once, on March 1, 2013, from Teterboro airport in New Jersey to Palm Beach International Airport in Florida. The records do not show that he flew to Epstein’s island.
Gates and Epstein met repeatedly beginning in 2011, The New York Times reported, including at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and in Florida. He stopped meeting with him in 2013, the paper reported. Gates’ employees also visited Epstein’s mansion. Gates has said before that he regretted meeting with him.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2023/evidence-does-not-support-a-claim-that-bill-gates-went-to-jeffrey-epsteins-island-much-less-37-times/
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There is no evidence that Bill Gates traveled to Epstein Island even one time. According to Reuters: Viral claims circulating on social media claim billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has traveled to Jeffrey Epstein’s island multiple times. While Gates and Epstein had met in the past, this claim (that he traveled to Epstein Island), based on flight logs recently subpoenaed, is untrue. According to Newsweek: The flight logs that detailed the use of Epstein’s private plane, including their destinations, do not show that Bill Gates ever visited the island, let alone on 37 separate occasions.
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