Being specifically attracted to underage girls that could very well be adults seems vastly weirder than pedophilia, given the obvious alternative of being attracted to adult women who look like teenagers.
Looking at the pictures of the women that have been in the media, "conventionally attractive young women, a significant portion of whom were under 18" seems like a far more accurate description than "children". While "children" may be technically correct, someone trying to effectively describe what happened would not choose that word.
I am not going to make excuses for pedophiles.
Yeah, but we're not just talking about 16 year olds here, we're talking about (way) younger than that.
And besides, okay, an 18 year old, for hookups that's fine up to age 25 in my book. 30 is also fine in most of Europe's moral view, in France they'd probably accept 35. But ffs. Gates was around 58 back at the time. That's far too old to hang out with 18 year olds, much less having sex with them.
She didn't go into this much detail - but she could probably confirm/deny a few things if asked about it now.
I have no idea the sequence of events but it makes for a great antihero origin story.
That's one way of putting it. Here's another: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=x80EbmX5xys
NYT : "Epstein Notes Suggested Bill Gates Engaged in Extramarital Sex"
HN : Bill Gates had sex with children! :(
