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Melinda and Bill Gates stunned the world last week when they announced they were ending their 27-year marriage.

But according to The Wall Street Journal, the decision wasn't out of the blue — Melinda Gates began speaking with divorce lawyers in 2019, the same year that the New York Times reported her husband and Jeffrey Epstein had met multiple times.

Here's how the convicted sex offender and the Microsoft cofounder were connected.

Bill Gates and Epstein reportedly first met in 2011 in New York City
The first meeting came three years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl and became a registered sex offender, and later spent 13 months in jail.

The pair met to discuss philanthropic ideas at Epstein's Manhattan residence in 2011 after Epstein aggressively worked to meet the Microsoft co-founder, the New York Times reported in 2019, citing documents and interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the relationship between the two men. According to the Times, Bill Gates stayed late at Epstein's apartment, and Epstein's former girlfriend and her 15-year-old daughter were also present.

Bill Gates wrote an email to his colleagues later that year about how Epstein's "lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me," the Times reported. A spokeswoman for Gates told the Times that the email was referring to Epstein's "unique decor" and spontaneous way of inviting acquaintances to meet his guests.