巴菲特：已与盖茨断绝联系

据美国《财富》杂志网站3月31日报道，美国投资人沃伦·巴菲特表示，自从已故性犯罪者 爱泼斯坦 案件相关文件被公布以来，他已与微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨断绝联系。这是巴菲特首次就此事公开表态。

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.

沃伦·巴菲特（左）与比尔·盖茨（资料图） 图源：美媒

报道称，现年95岁的巴菲特在接受美国消费者新闻与商业频道（CNBC）采访时表示：“自从整个事件曝光以来，我就完全没跟他联系过。我不想处于知晓某些情况的境地，因为那可能会让我被传唤作证。”他还补充说，在“事情解决之前”，自己不愿就此话题发表更多评论。

"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".

巴菲特强调，他从未与爱泼斯坦有任何交往，也从未见过此人。他表示，由于长期居住在内布拉斯加州奥马哈，自己没有机会在纽约的社交场合遇到爱泼斯坦。“如果我住在纽约、参加那些派对，或许就会遇到他。”巴菲特称爱泼斯坦是“史上最成功的骗子之一”，并表示“难以置信有人能如此成功地行骗”。

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.

《财富》指出，巴菲特与盖茨的友谊始于1991年。此后，两人在慈善领域密切合作，包括通过盖茨基金会以及共同发起“捐赠誓言”倡议。自2006年以来，巴菲特已向盖茨基金会捐赠超过430亿美元，占该基金会筹款总额的近一半。近年来，两人关系逐渐降温：巴菲特于2021年退出盖茨基金会董事会，并在2024年宣布撤回将其遗产捐赠给该基金会的计划。

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.

另据美国《华尔街日报》此前报道，比尔·盖茨2月24日曾就其与爱泼斯坦的关系向盖茨基金会员工致歉。他承认在婚姻存续期间曾与两名俄罗斯女性发生婚外情，但同时坚称自己未参与爱泼斯坦的犯罪行为。

来源：环球时报 Fortune

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