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Bill Gates believed Jeffrey Epstein could deliver the Nobel Prize he craved. Instead, their toxic dalliance destroyed Gates' marriage and stained his 'saintly' reputation for ever... as revealed in a new book about billionaire Microsoft founder

The relationship between paedophile money man Jeffrey Epstein and billionaire Bill Gates has long been shrouded in mystery. Yet an unflattering new biography of Gates offers fresh insight.

According to business writer Anupreeta Das, while the tech genius was certainly attracted to women many years his junior – to the point that his company banned interns from being alone with him – what he desired even more was the Nobel Peace Prize as recognition of his foundation's work towards eradicating polio. His spokesman said in a statement: 'Relying almost exclusively on second- and third-hand hearsay and anonymous sources, the book includes highly sensationalised allegations and outright falsehoods that ignore the actual documented facts Mr Gates's office provided to the author on numerous occasions.' While Gates's reputation has been tarnished by myriad controversies – ranging from complaints about his overbearing behaviour as a boss to allegations that his charitable giving is actually deeply self-serving by benefiting companies in which his foundation invests – his relationship with Epstein, who committed suicide in a New York jail cell before he could be tried for sex trafficking, remains the darkest stain against his character.

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