Tech billionaire Bill Gates is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday morning, the latest high-profile witness to testify as part of the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the richest people on Earth, was among several prominent people to appear in the Justice Department’s release of the Epstein files. Those documents show that Gates and Epstein met multiple times, and those close to Gates maintained a relationship with the sex offender.
Gates has said that he was “foolish” to spend time with Epstein. “I thought it would help me with global health, philanthropy. In fact, it failed to do that, and it was just a huge mistake,” he told The Wall Street Journal in January 2025.
His charity organization, the Gates Foundation, commissioned an external investigation into its ties to Epstein in March.