Bill Gates was questioned about his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein in a new PBS interview: 'Well, he's dead, so in general you always have to be careful'

• Bill Gates answered questions about Jeffrey Epstein in a "PBS NewsHour" interview.
• Gates said that he regretted having dinners with Epstein and that their meetings were a mistake.
• "Well, he's dead, so in general you always have to be careful," Gates said when asked about lessons learned.

Bill Gates answered questions in a $4 on Tuesday about his meetings with the financier and convicted sex offender $4.

"I had dinners with him. I regret doing that," the Microsoft cofounder told PBS's Judy Woodruff.

In response to Woodruff's question about whether there was a lesson to learn from the experience, Gates said, "Well, he's dead, so in general you always have to be careful."

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Gates $4 his ties with Epstein in November 2019. In a panel discussion, Gates said he'd "made a mistake in judgment in thinking those discussions would go to global health."

He added, "That money never appeared."

Gates didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.

Gates told Woodruff that Epstein had relationships with people who would give money to global-health causes, adding that "not nearly enough philanthropy goes in that direction."

But Gates said he decided to end the meetings.

"Those meetings were a mistake," Gates told Woodruff. "They didn't result in what he purported, and I cut them off."

The meetings were a long time ago, Gates said. He told Woodruff that there was "nothing new" to say about them.

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After Gates and Melinda French Gates $4 in May, $4 that French Gates had warned her husband about his relationship with Epstein and $4 after the couple met Epstein in New York in 2013.