Being a draft, it deprived Gates any opportunity to respond, so it's possible Epstein was playing "4D Chess" and planting defamatory disinfo in anticipation that his emails would be subpoenaed in some civil suit and leaked to the public, but that seems much less likely than Epstein boorishly bringing up an unpleasant episode that in fact did happen to use as emotional leverage over gates. (Epstein was known to be very pushy.)

It's also crazy to see a man like Bill Gates willingly compromise himself in this manner. Even setting aside the Epstein affiliation, did the Russian spy angle just not occur to him?