That's the story I heard a few weeks ago anyway.
"... any account of a business partnership or personal relationship between the two is simply not true." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep...
The Microsoft founder said he was “never at any parties or anything like that,” and that all the meetings they held together “were meetings with men.”
“I met him,” Gates told the Journal. “I didn’t have any business relationship or friendship with him. I didn’t go to New Mexico or Florida or Palm Beach or any of that. There were people around him who were saying, hey, if you want to raise money for global health and get more philanthropy, he knows a lot of rich people.”
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/10/20858936/bill-gates-jeffr...
It's a weird story. It's hard to imagine Gates, whose foundation is the largest charitable organization in the world, really needed Epsteins advice on setting up charitable funds, which seems to be the official line. And Gates certainly wouldn't need help networking or coming up with $$.
Or that might have been one of Epstein's other associates.