Warren Buffett spent two decades as the single largest benefactor of Bill Gates’ philanthropy, the Gates Foundation, having donated about $48 billion.
Earlier this month, he walked away due to concerns about the Gates Foundation’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—a relationship Buffett had recently called “distasteful.” Now a review of Gates’ dealings with Epstein shows the relationship Buffett distanced himself from was closer than previously known.
