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When Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced that they were getting a divorce five years ago, Bill still had a decent reputation, for a billionaire. I remember coming away from the initial coverage of the news with the impression that there was no obvious bad actor in their story, and maybe they were splitting up for normal, mundane reasons—normal and mundane for billionaires, anyway.

Cut to this week, and this headline, from the New York Post: “Bill Gates Confesses to Cheating on Ex-Wife Melinda With 2 Women During Their 27-Year Marriage.” Welp, so much for a villainless divorce. And what’s more, Gates only confessed to these affairs in the course of defending himself from even worse accusations stemming from his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender whose emails have been a source of endless controversy over the last several years.