Bill Gates is under fire this week after an uncomfortable interview about Jeffrey Epstein.
Bill Gates is known to be the richest man in the world.
But recently, the business tycoon admitted something which we didn’t expect to hear.
In a new interview with Forbes, Gates said he intends to follow the “give while he lives” principle.
Which he certainly has lived by, but now according to reports, he has vowed to give up his rich spot.
People do get sick of money, after all.
The American businessman has donated a whopping $20 billion to the Gates Foundation, as per LADbible.
And if you thought that’s pretty epic, it only gets better…
As Forbes has already noted his most recent donation.
And has taken away his title of being the top billionaire in the world.
And it’s made him “drop” from his number one spot to…
Fifth position, as per reports.
But that’s not all, his net worth of $102 billion is sitting outside the foundation.
Gates even spoke about the future of his billionaire-ness.
“I’ll get myself out of the highly visible part of the list with just say two more gifts of this magnitude. I would get myself off the top part of the list,” he said.
Can you believe it?
And he carried on revealing more secrets…
“Getting all the way off the list, that’s going to take me a while, but my direction of travel is clear,” Gates said.
But what does he mean by all this?
Is he really giving up his billionaire position that easily?
Well…
According to Forbes, the $20bn donation brings Bill and Melinda Gates’ lifetime giving amount to $55 billion.
And that still makes them the “biggest philanthropists of all time.”
But moving forward, Gates’ intentions are clear…
He wants to give away his top spot!
The pair plan to up the foundation spending by 50 percent, to $9bn a year, by 2026…
With a project spend between now and then of $41.4bn.
And looks like Gates is sticking to his words…
As he’s donated a huge amount of money.
The Microsoft founder donated “close to $5.2 billion worth of stocks” in Canadian National Railway Co…
Reports suggested that Gates “gave away $995 million worth of shares” in Deere & Co. to the foundation.
Now, this means he is worth approximately $112 billion…
According to LADbible, he is behind Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault and India’s Gautam Adani.
Talking about the big step, Gates said his plans to step off the World’s Richest list was going to “supercharge” all the work he does…
“This is going to supercharge or accelerate, charge, turbocharge basically all the work that we do,” Gates said.
But something else has happened to the billionaire this week…
An interview about Jeffrey Epstein that has the whole internet cringing!
One wrote: “Talk about awkward and uncomfortable.
“This man not only didn’t want to answer, he looked like he was on the stand trying to be as brief as he could in his responses.”
Another questioned the veracity of his answers.
“Dinners? What were the conversations about with a true blue pedophile, Bill?”
In a new interview with abc730, Epstein and Gates’ relationship was the focus.
Presenter Sarah Ferguson began: “One of the issues that’s dogged you is that of your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.”
She continued:
“Do you regret the relationship that you maintained with him against Melinda’s advice and wishes?”
Bill seemed visibly annoyed at the question.
“You’re going way back in time, but yeah, I will say it for the over 100th time, yeah, I shouldn’t have had dinners with him.”
The presenter doesn’t let it go, though adding:
“Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people, is that what Melinda was warning you about?”
Gates responds: “No… I mean it’s… no, I had dinner with him and that’s all.”
What do you think of the awkward clip?