Bill Gates is well and truly out in the cold after his closest billionaire friend, Warren Buffett, axed the Gates Foundation from his yearly charity donations over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Gates,

Bill Gates appeared voluntarily behind closed doors before House Oversight Committee investigators on Wednesday to answer questions about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, part of a larger turn in his image that has been rippling through the Seattle-area institutions he built and funds.

Gates reportedly prepared for his testimony with the help of Jake Greenberg, who previously was the Oversight committee's chief investigations counsel.