https://www.vox.com/recode/22441627/bill-gates-scandal-divorce-epstein > The aura that Gates built over the past two decades may be permanently shattered. > For decades, Bill Gates has traveled the globe as near-royalty, knighted by Queen Elizabeth and draped in medals by former President Barack Obama. And for the last year, the once pugnacious Microsoft founder has reinvented himself as one of America’s clearest, most humane voices on the Covid-19 pandemic.