Bill Gates has lifted the lid on some of his affairs during his appearance before Congress where two of the women he cheated on his wife with were named for the first time.

The Microsoft founder admitted that he had a relationship with Alice Jacobs Nesselrodt, a medical entrepreneur with a doctorate from Harvard Medical School.

He also confirmed that he had a relationship with Karima Nigmatulina, a Russian nuclear scientist.

During an excruciating hearing earlier this month - the transcript of which was just released - Gates was asked deeply personal questions like if he ever had a sexually transmitted disease.

According to Gates, his ex-wife Melinda stayed with him despite admitting twice he had affairs with multiple women with the first confession being some time before 2010.

The hearing before the House Oversight Committee was to find out about Gates' relationship with Epstein which is seen as one of the key reasons that Melinda divorced him in 2021 after 27 years of marriage.

Gates, 70, remained friends with Epstein for years even though the late pedophile was a registered sex offender at the time.

After Epstein's suicide Gates has repeatedly apologized for their friendship and told Congress during the June 10th appearance that he wished they had never met.

During the interview, Gates admitted having three extramarital affairs, the first of which was with Dr Jacobs.

Gates said he couldn't remember when he told Melinda about that relationship but it was before 2013 when he told her about the affair with Nigmatulina and Mila Antonova, a Russian bridge player.

In a bizarre comment, Gates told the committee that he still thought that Antonova, who was 30 years his junior, was a 'serious bridge player.'

Gates told the committee that when he told Melinda about the two affairs in 2013 it was 'very distressing to her' but they didn't talk about getting divorced at that point.

According to Gates, he first met Nigmatulina through her work on 'disease modeling and nuclear fission work'.

At the time she was working for a company called TerraPower which Gates said he was a 'substantial investor in'.

Gates confirmed that one of the times he had sex with Nigmatulina was in London and that it was referenced in the three million emails from Epstein that were released by the Department of Justice earlier this year.

In his testimony, Gates said that the relationship with Dr Jacobs, who currently runs her own medical consulting company Convergence Group, began before 2010.

Alarmingly, the committee members told Gates that Dr Jacobs first made contact with Epstein in October 2009.

She became close enough to Epstein to introduce him to Boris Nikolic, who became close friends with Gates and would prove to be a key connector between the pedophile and the Microsoft founder.

Gates was asked about one email where Dr Jacobs called Nikolic her 'best friend'. Gates said he thought they were friends in a 'professional context' and he wasn't aware of her knowing Epstein.

The committee read out a draft of an email that Epstein appeared to send to himself in 2013 in which he talked about Dr Jacobs.

The subject of the email was: Bill. 

It appeared to be from the perspective of Nikolic, a former science advisor to the Gates Foundation, Gates' philanthropic venture. 

The email read: 'You also made it clear to me that I am not to refer to Alice Jacobs as that is another topic that must remain between the two of us'.

Gates said he didn't know what the email was about - Nikolic has denied Epstein was speaking on his behalf.

'What does it mean when a man sends a mail to himself - I'm not sure', Gates said.

Peter Spectre, the committee's Deputy Director for Oversight, pressed Gates about the email.

Spectre asked: 'Do you have any reason to believe that anyone would think that there is something about Alice Jacobs that you needed to keep between yourself and Dr. Nikolic?'

Gates said: 'Well, there was a time when I had an affair with Dr. Jacobs. So that may fit that category'

According to Gates, Nikolic was a 'consultant' to Dr Jacobs so he wouldn't be 'completely surprised' if Nikolic knew about their affair.

Gates denied discussing Epstein with any of the three women but he admitted that the pedophile knew about his affairs with the Russians, likely through Nikolic.

The affair with Antonova led to speculation that Epstein could have been planning to blackmail Gates after emails were published by the Wall St Journal in 2023 which indicated the pedophile wanted to be paid back for some expenses he had paid for her.

Failure to return the money could mean that Epstein might expose the relationship, the emails reportedly showed.

According to Gates, in 2014 after he cut off contact with Epstein, Epstein sought reimbursement for some expenses related to Antonova

But Gates told one of his top advisors they were 'never going to pay anything'.

Gates said: 'I was not blackmailed, but, you know, as you look at these emails, you know, it looks like Mr Epstein's brainstorming was going in that direction'.

During one of the more embarrassing parts of the hearing, Gates was asked if he ever had a sexually transmitted disease, but he denied it.

The committee also read out another section of the email Epstein sent to himself.

Epstein claimed that Gates 'implored me to please delete the emails regarding your STD and your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give Melinda and the description of your penis'.

Gates was asked if ever sent an email to Nikolic about this subject.

He said: 'I never had an STD.

'I never described my penis to Dr. Nikolic. I've said I may have indicated some concern about whether I had an STD; I don't recall that. But I never had an STD. I never gave medicines to anyone covertly'.

The Daily Mail has contacted Dr Jacobs for comment.