Emily Glazer

It is very neutral colored sweaters, crew neck or v-neck.

There's often a neutral button down underneath, neutral slacks.

And of course, Bill wears his signature silver lining optician's carbon glasses, thick framed glasses.

It's like Steve Jobs, but like friendly.

Grandfatherly.

His clothes are housed in an off-campus building.

There's even a custom mannequin to try on his clothes, to tailor his clothes.

And before he has events, oftentimes there are three different outfit options with photos taken of sweater outfits.

Pants, shoes, kind of like lined up and messaged around to get approval for the best look.

There's this YouGov survey where Bill Gates was ranked at the top of this list of the most admired men.

He ranked higher than the Dalai Lama.

then the Pope, then Barack Obama.

And there was an internal email where his right-hand man, Larry Cohen, who's CEO of his private office, was really cheering on the results and notably says, like, this is because of the hard work of our team.

Like, you know, admitting they have crafted this and they did it, and here it is measured for all to see.

That same year, the sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein dies in jail.

And there are all these questions that bubble up around Epstein's death and who he knew.

And there were media reports at that time about how Bill Gates actually had greater ties to Jeffrey Epstein than what was previously known.

Bill said in our Wall Street Journal story, there were people around him who were saying, hey, if you want to raise money for global health and get more philanthropy, he knows a lot of rich people.

Every meeting where I was with him were meetings with men.

I was never at any parties or anything like that.