Bill Gates is responding after an email in newly released documents related to the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein claimed the Microsoft billionaire contracted a sexually transmitted infection (STI) from "Russian girls." "These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false," a spokesperson for Gates, 70, said in a statement to People published on Saturday, January 31. "The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame.