據(jù)美國《財(cái)富》雜志網(wǎng)站3月31日?qǐng)?bào)道，美國投資人沃倫·巴菲特表示，自從已故性犯罪者 愛潑斯坦 案件相關(guān)文件被公布以來，他已與微軟聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人比爾·蓋茨斷絕聯(lián)系。這是巴菲特首次就此事公開表態(tài)。

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said he has not talked to his longtime friend, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, since he was engulfed in a scandal over his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

沃倫·巴菲特（左）與比爾·蓋茨（資料圖） 圖源：美媒

報(bào)道稱，現(xiàn)年95歲的巴菲特在接受美國消費(fèi)者新聞與商業(yè)頻道（CNBC）采訪時(shí)表示：“自從整個(gè)事件曝光以來，我就完全沒跟他聯(lián)系過。我不想處于知曉某些情況的境地，因?yàn)槟强赡軙?huì)讓我被傳喚作證。”他還補(bǔ)充說，在“事情解決之前”，自己不愿就此話題發(fā)表更多評(píng)論。

"I haven't talked to him at all since the whole thing was unveiled," Buffett told CNBC in an interview published Tuesday that included his first public comments on the Epstein files.

"I don't want to be in the position where I know things," Buffett added. "I could get called as a witness." Buffett added he did not want to say much on the topic "until things are resolved".

巴菲特強(qiáng)調(diào)，他從未與愛潑斯坦有任何交往，也從未見過此人。他表示，由于長期居住在內(nèi)布拉斯加州奧馬哈，自己沒有機(jī)會(huì)在紐約的社交場(chǎng)合遇到愛潑斯坦�！叭绻易≡诩~約、參加那些派對(duì)，或許就會(huì)遇到他�！卑头铺胤Q愛潑斯坦是“史上最成功的騙子之一”，并表示“難以置信有人能如此成功地行騙”。

Still, the 95-year-old said he was thankful he had never run in the same circles as the disgraced financier and had never met him.

"If I lived in New York at some party", he may have run into him, said Buffett, who has lived in Omaha, Nebraska, for more than 65 years.

《財(cái)富》指出，巴菲特與蓋茨的友誼始于1991年。此后，兩人在慈善領(lǐng)域密切合作，包括通過蓋茨基金會(huì)以及共同發(fā)起“捐贈(zèng)誓言”倡議。自2006年以來，巴菲特已向蓋茨基金會(huì)捐贈(zèng)超過430億美元，占該基金會(huì)籌款總額的近一半。近年來，兩人關(guān)系逐漸降溫：巴菲特于2021年退出蓋茨基金會(huì)董事會(huì)，并在2024年宣布撤回將其遺產(chǎn)捐贈(zèng)給該基金會(huì)的計(jì)劃。

The friendship between two of the world's richest men began in 1991. Although Buffett and Gates later said they weren't particularly excited to meet, they hit it off immediately, leading to a decades-long friendship and close collaboration on the Gates Foundation and the Giving Pledge, which the duo founded with French Gates.

Still, in recent years, the relationship between the two billionaires has cooled. Buffett stepped down from the Gates Foundation's board in 2021. Although Buffett has reportedly donated nearly half of the Gates Foundation's funding, about $43 billion, he told the Wall Street Journal in 2024 that no more of his money would be donated to the foundation following his death.

另據(jù)美國《華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)》此前報(bào)道，比爾·蓋茨2月24日曾就其與愛潑斯坦的關(guān)系向蓋茨基金會(huì)員工致歉。他承認(rèn)在婚姻存續(xù)期間曾與兩名俄羅斯女性發(fā)生婚外情，但同時(shí)堅(jiān)稱自己未參與愛潑斯坦的犯罪行為。

來源：環(huán)球時(shí)報(bào) Fortune

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