Washington DC, Jan. 31 -- Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed in July 2013 that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates asked one of his advisers to provide him with medicine to treat sexually transmitted diseases, the consequences of "sex with Russian girls," New York Post reported on Saturday.

A spokesperson for Gates had shunned the allegations earlier. But they resurfaced as a massive trove of 3.5 million pages of Epstein files were released by the US Department of Justice on Friday (local time). According to media reports, Gates' spokeperson had dubbed the allegations as 'absolutely absurd and completely false'.

Epstein appeared to be making the claims in a draft statement on behalf of Gates' longtime science adviser, Boris Niko...