Bill Gates Has Been Grilled About His Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein. Now His Foundation Is Not Receiving a Key Donation

Warren Buffet has excluded the Gates Foundation from its annual donation of Berkshire Hathaway stock, according to a new report.

Buffett is donating 9 million Class B shares of the company, each one worth a little less than $500, to four family-linked foundations.

Buffett said in a statement announcing the decision that his goal is “to dispose of all of my Berkshire shares within about eight years.”

“As I explained last year, my children are unfortunately growing older. I have every hope that the three of them are able to carry out the disposal of my shares by December 31, 2034,” he added.

CNBC noted that the Gates Foundation had been for years one of the largest recipients of the annual donations, which amount to more than $43 billion since 2026. Citing The Wall Street Journal, the article notes that Buffett has suspended the donation as he waits for the results of a review into the foundation’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaking to the outlet in March, Buffett said he had not talked to Gates “at all since the whole thing was unveiled.” “Until it gets cleared up … I just don’t think it makes sense to do a lot of talking,” he added.

Gates told a House committee that he “should have never met” Jeffrey Epstein as he faced a grilling in Congress.

In his opening statement before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Gates claimed that “based on what I know now, I understand that even if he had delivered the new donors he promised” to the Gates foundation it “would not have justified associating with him.”

“At the outset, I want to state very clearly: I never witnessed nor had any indication that Epstein was engaged in ongoing criminal conduct,” Gates added, noting that he “ever went to his island, his ranch, or his Florida home.”

Gates has been repeatedly asked about his ties with Epstein. He has said he had dinner with him on several occasions in hopes of making him part of a project to build a network of investors for global health initiatives.

“The focus was always, he knew a lot of very rich people, and he was saying he could get them to give money to global health. In retrospect, that was a dead end,” Gates told an Australian outlet earlier this year.

He went on to reference an alleged email that Epstein sent to himself claiming Gates got a sexually-transmitted disease and asked for antibiotics to surreptitiously give to his then-wife Melinda.

“Apparently, Jeffrey wrote an email to himself. Ah, that email was never sent. The email is false,” Gates said. “So, I don’t know what his thinking was there. It just reminds me that every minute I spent with him, I regret, and I apologize I did that,” he added.