🍴 Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates has repeatedly said he regrets ever interacting with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a new interview on ABC Australia's 7.30, a current affairs program, he downplayed his ties to the financier, who reportedly died by suicide in jail in 2019. Follow benzinga "I will say for the, you know, over hundredth time, yeah I shouldn't have had dinners with him," Gates said. What To Know: The live TV interview on ABC Australia has gone viral. Several users across social platforms like Twitter are highlighting the way Gates downplayed the relationship. ABC host Sarah Ferguson continued to press the billionaire philanthropist with questions about his relationship with Epstein, even after he noted that he had answered similar questions numerous times. "Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people. Is that what Melinda was warning you about?" Ferguson asked. "No, I mean ... no I had dinner with him and that’s all," Gates said. I...