Nicholas Kristof Used Times Column, Books To Promote Bill Gates and Denounce Sex Trafficking—But Never Mentioned Gates’s Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Nicholas Kristof Used Times Column, Books To Promote Bill Gates and Denounce Sex Trafficking—But Never Mentioned Gates’s Close Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof used his columns to promote the embattled tech mogul Bill Gates as recently as December 2025, even as unflattering revelations about Gates's close personal ties to Jeffrey Epstein—and the Microsoft billionaire's infidelities—spilled into public view. Kristof was also boosting Gates at the same time as he was denouncing Epstein for sexually exploiting women, according to a Washington Free Beacon revi…