The Gates Foundation has denied two things about its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The press has been reporting a third denial the Foundation never made — and the external review it announced on April 21 has been scoped around what the denial leaves uncovered.
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On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, the Gates Foundation announced that it has commissioned an external review of its past engagement with Jeffrey Epstein.1 The review was first announced internally in a March 11 memo. It is expected to report this summer. The third-party investigators have not been publicly named.
This article is part of my Epstein Files series, the reporting I published as I worked through the federal record in real time. That reporting became the foundation of Shadow Empire: The Epstein Files.
The articles followed individual threads as I found them. The book follows how they connect: thirty-four chapters, in the order events happened, with every claim footnoted to a document at justice.gov/epstein and its federal Bates number. Where an article and the book differ, the book reflects the fuller record.
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