Warren Buffet and Bill Gates were close friends and philanthropic allies for many, many years. Buffet, the billionaire “Oracle of Omaha,” pledged to give his fortune to charity. For two decades, Buffett has given the bulk of his charitable donations to the Gates Foundation. Reportedly, Bill Gates viewed Buffett as a second father, that’s how close they were. But not anymore. Buffett has paid attention to the release of the Epstein Files, and he’s shut down contact with Bill. Given that Bill Gates’ story keeps changing about what he and Jeffrey Epstein spoke about and did together, that’s probably wise.
Warren Buffett said he was surprised by what he learned from the newly released Epstein files, including about his longtime friend, Bill Gates. As the co-founder of Microsoft waits to testify before Congress, Buffett said he has distanced himself in case he’s subpoenaed.
“I haven’t talked to him at all since the whole thing was unveiled,” the 95-year-old billionaire investor told CNBC on Tuesday, March 31, of his current relationship with Gates. “I don’t want to be in a position where I know things. At the moment, I could get called as a witness.”
Buffett said he never met Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in a New York prison in August 2019, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges. After the U.S. Department of Justice began releasing files related to the investigation in December 2025, attention was drawn to Gates’ relationship with Epstein.
[Buffet also] declined to commit to continuing his annual multibillion-dollar donations to the Gates Foundation, following the recent release of materials about late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the nonprofit and its co-founder Bill Gates.
Buffett, 95, who remains Berkshire’s chairman, began giving away his fortune in 2006, and has donated more than $47 billion of the conglomerate’s stock to the Gates Foundation. He has donated Berkshire stock to the foundation and four family charities annually around mid-year, with additional donations to the family charities in November. Last year’s Gates Foundation donation totaled more than $4.5 billion.
“I’ll wait and see what unfolds,” Buffett said, when asked if the Gates Foundation donations will continue. “I’m learning things I didn’t know.”
I can’t even imagine what it would feel like for someone like Warren Buffett, someone who has been a second father and a mentor, calling me out like this publicly. Buffett moves markets, Buffett still influences not just business but how certain titans of industry are perceived. Meaning, if Warren Buffett no longer wants anything to do with Bill Gates OR the Gates Foundation, it’s a really big deal. Perhaps even a breaking point.
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It’s good that Buffett is tapping the brakes on Gates. But, honestly, I don’t see how anyone could be surprised by him. He’s always struck me as sketchy.
I appreciate Buffet distancing himself publicly, and that he wants to give his money away. I hope he finds a good way to do it.
The Gates foundation is shadier and shadier, the more I’m reading about what they’re doing in the agricultural space, especially in Africa and some other developing areas. An Indian activist explained it as, he collects local seeds, for his seed bank, has the genetic material documented, and basically patents it?
I hope Gates is subpoenaed, has to publicly testify in Congress, and if he’s an abuser that he’s prosecuted.
Bill Gates’ reputation for years was sh*te and more sh*te. Steve Ballmer was a raging lunatic who enabled him and was enabled by him. They were mental. They made Suckerberg look mild and meek by comparison. The original tech bro douche squad. What changed public perceptions of him was Melinda. She was so clearly someone with integrity, principles, intelligence, and authentic values, who chose to raise her kids instead of getting back on the corporate treadmill, it was like a white version of Michelle Obama, even people who wanted to hate her had to give it up. Then they gave away all their money. Then he walked on water. Then Melinda left him. Behold, the man without the woman at his side, is a shell of who he seemed to be. Imagine being one of his kids now. They have money, and one parent who’s sound, but how do you trust a man who lies to you?
Melinda left the Gates Foundation for a reason…. Believe the women. Whispering has existed for years that the Gates Foundation was doing corrupt thing outside the wild Q conspiracies. He should have been ousted from Microsoft already and the foundation should also be wrapped up. Buffett should come out this strongly against the senile mango in chief.
“I haven’t talked to him at all since the whole thing was unveiled,” the 95-year-old billionaire investor told CNBC on Tuesday, March 31, of his current relationship with Gates. “I don’t want to be in a position where I know things. At the moment, I could get called as a witness.”
So he stopped talking to him because he doesn’t want to get pulled into anything if criminal proceedings occur. That’s not all that moral or noble. How about because Gates is a shitty person who possibly abused girls?
Some of these men are shady as hell.
well, @ThatGirlThere – Legal person here, Buffett is doing the right thing, because he doesn’t want to conflict himself out from testifying, and that’s the morally correct thing to do.
So, if he continues to be in touch with Bill, and BILL tries to tell him things or cover things up, or explain things than WARREN is conflicting himself out, so what he’s doing is opening himself up for honest testimony or witness. And that’s actually what a lot of people will not do. They will not remove themselves from a personal relationship in order to give un-biased testimony, if he’s asked about events or conversations he can now speak about them freely without having BILL try to justify himself in the background prior to him potentially being called to do that.