Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Wednesday addressed his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019, as a “huge mistake.” Speaking to CNN, Gates said he had “several dinners” with Epstein, a disgraced financier accused of sex trafficking and child abuse before he was found dead in a jail cell in Manhattan, about 10 years ago in 2011. Those dinners occurred years after Epstein was convicted and sentenced to soliciting prostitution from a minor. Epstein in 2008 pleaded guilty to the charges, serving 13 months in custody but with extensive work release. Gates, one of the wealthiest people in the world, told the network that when he met with Epstein, they discussed the prospect of receiving billions of dollars in philanthropy but ended the relationship after it “looked like that wasn’t a real thing.” “I had several dinners with him, you know, hoping that what he said about getting billions of …