Article continues below advertisementBill Gates is shedding light on his former friendship with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. In a new wide-ranging interview with 9 News Australia uploaded on Wednesday, February 4, the tech mogul denied ever visiting the notorious Epstein island and slammed claims he contracted an STD from "Russian girls."Gates, 70, insisted, "I never went to the island, I never met any women. And so, the more that comes out, the more clear it'll be that, although the time was a mistake, it had nothing to do with that kind of behavior.