An external review that cleared the Gates Foundation of any wrongdoing in its ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein this week notably did not include any of Bill Gates’ personal emails, according to a footnote in the report’s summary.

"These affairs had nothing to do with my interactions with Epstein, but they were painful for my family," Gates said during his closed-door testimony Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016.