A private letter apparently written by former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold was included in Jeffrey Epstein’s fiftieth birthday e book, made public this week by the Home Oversight Committee.
Myhrvold, who joined Microsoft in 1986 and served as the corporate’s first chief expertise officer, can also be listed as a “pal” within the e book, a duplicate of which was supplied by the Epstein property as a part of an investigation into the late financier and convicted intercourse offender.
“Mr. Myhrvold knew him from TED conferences and as a donor to primary scientific analysis,” a spokesperson for Myhrvold mentioned in a press release to GeekWire. “He regrets that he ever met him.”
The one-page letter, signed “Nathan,” is addressed to “Jeffery,” a misspelling of Epstein’s first identify.
“I’ve agonized lengthy and onerous about what to put in writing in your birthday,” the letter begins, describing one deserted model as “a extremely philosophical tackle private notion,” on account of Epstein’s standing as “one of many few individuals who has influenced how I parse and perceive the world.”
One other model, it provides, was “foolish and salacious, since your lifestyle has a lot of every of this stuff.”
The letter continues, “Just a few years in the past any person at a celebration requested me ‘Does Jeffrey Epstein handle your cash?’. I replied ‘No, however he advises me on way of life’. The fellows eyes bugged out of his head and he mentioned ‘REALLY?’
“Alas I’m ailing ready to remark in your way of life in any element, since I’m (sadly) to date behind that it might be speaking about issues I do know little of!”
Following the letter within the e book are a sequence of crude wildlife pictures, together with animals mating, which the letter describes as “a number of pictures that I took on my current journey to Africa,” which “appeared extra acceptable than something I might put in phrases.”
Myhrvold is an achieved photographer whose subsequent e book, “Pure Wonders,” is scheduled to be printed by Nationwide Geographic in October.
The Wall Road Journal initially reported on the birthday e book in July, and cited Myhrvold’s letter in a separate story later that month.
After a 14-year tenure at Microsoft, which included working instantly for Invoice Gates, Myhrvold went on to launch Bellevue, Wash.-based Mental Ventures. He’s additionally vice chairman of TerraPower, the nuclear energy enterprise the place Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, is chairman.
Gates reportedly met Epstein in 2011 — after Epstein was convicted of intercourse crimes — and had a number of future conferences, in line with a 2019 story from the New York Occasions. Gates later mentioned these conferences have been a “mistake.”
Epstein’s community of high-powered associates has come underneath scrutiny following his loss of life in 2019. The birthday e book, reportedly signed by Epstein’s affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003, additionally features a letter bearing the obvious signature of President Donald Trump, which he has denied writing.
