GoKawiilBill Gates speaks with Reuters during an interview in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2025.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to be interviewed Wednesday by a House committee about his controversial friendship with the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The mega-billionaire Gates is one of the biggest names to submit to a grilling by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which for months has investigated Epstein's network of high-profile friends.
Gates' testimony comes a day after the committee questioned Epstein's former longtime executive assistant, Lesley Groff.
Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the committee, told reporters Tuesday that "anything's on the table" in terms of questions for Gates. "He seems like he's — according to his attorneys — I wouldn't say eager to testify, but he's willing to testify, and he hasn't fought it. And I appreciate that."
Gates became friends with Epstein in 2011, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
That was three years after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. Epstein served 13 months in jail in that case.
He died from a jailhouse suicide in August 2019, weeks after his arrest on federal child sex trafficking charges.
The friendship between Gates and Epstein received renewed attention in late 2025 with the release of documents about Epstein and his associates by the Department of Justice and Congress.
Gates has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
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