Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace has demanded that Bill Gates be subpoenaed over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after being moved by an interview given by his ex-wife Melinda.
Gates appears frequently in the Epstein files and Melinda said in an interview on Tuesday that every time the story resurfaces it brings back ‘painful’ memories about the breakdown of her marriage which ended in divorce in 2021.
‘Last night, I watched Melinda Gates‘ interview. I immediately asked the chairman of oversight, James Comer, to subpoena Bill Gates,’ Mace wrote on X.
‘I have questions for Bill Gates about Epstein.’
Melinda told NPR’s Wild Card podcast on Tuesday: ‘It’s beyond heartbreaking. I remember being those ages those girls were, I remember my daughters being those ages.
‘So, for me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up, right? Because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage.’
Mace, a member of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the Epstein files, is now calling on Gates to testify before Congress.
Comer, the committee chair, on Tuesday announced that Bill and Hillary Clinton would testify over their relationship with Epstein later this month.
Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, listens during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform markup business meeting about finding former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in contempt of Congress, Wednesday Jan. 21, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington
Bill Gates is seen in this undated photograph with Jeffrey Epstein
Melinda Gates and Bill Gates attend The Robin Hood Foundation’s 2018 benefit at Jacob Javitz Center on May 14, 2018 in New York City
In an interview on NPR’s Wild Card podcast, Melinda French Gates reacts to her ex-husband, Bill Gates, being mentioned in the most recent release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein
The committee last year requested former prince Andrew testify – but as a Briton he cannot be subpoenaed by Congress.
JD Vance in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail on Tuesday backed Republican calls for King Charles’ brother to give evidence, citing recent comments by the British prime minister.
‘I saw Keir Starmer said something about this,’ Vance said. ‘I’m certainly open to it.’
Melinda, who has two daughters and a son with Gates, told CBS: ‘I am so happy to be away from all the muck.’
When asked specifically about how the recent details about her ex-husband’s alleged affairs made her feel, she responded: ‘Sad. Just unbelievable sadness. Unbelievable sadness.’
The Justice Department released more than 3 million documents related to Epstein on Friday, including emails that alleged the Microsoft founder planned to slip Melinda an antibiotic to combat a sexually transmitted disease he contracted from ‘Russian girls.’
The email appears to be drafts of a letter Epstein sent to himself and wrote on behalf of Gates’ then-top advisor Boris Nikolic, around his resignation from the Microsoft billionaire’s charitable foundation.
The lengthy message lashed out at Gates for allegedly ending his friendship with Nikolic and says: ‘TO add insult to the injury you them [sic] implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis.’
Following the release, which contained lurid claims about Gates’s sex life, his spokesman told the Daily Mail: ‘These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false’
Epstein is pictured with a young woman who appears to be in her underwear in a photograph released as part of the Epstein files
Friday’s release included multiple new undated images of Epstein and Gates together
Earlier in the same missive, the email Epstein apparently wrote in Nikolic’s voice said he had been ‘dismayed beyond comprehension’ by Gates’s decision to ‘disregard our friendship developed over the last 6 years’.
The release also included multiple new, undated images of Epstein and Gates together in various locations.
Gates has previously said he regrets spending time with the pedophile, who died in a New York City jail in 2019, but has long denied any impropriety.
A spokesman for Gates told the Daily Mail: ‘These claims are absolutely absurd and completely false.
‘The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein’s frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame.’
Mace has been at the vanguard of Republican efforts to release the Epstein files as one of Capitol Hill’s foremost champions of justice for sexual abuse victims.
The Daily Mail has contacted Comer over whether he plans to call Gates to testify.
