Mila Antonova: The Bridge Between Epstein and Gates
- Patrick Duggan
- Feb 25
- 4 min read
# Mila Antonova: The Bridge Between Epstein and Gates
**Published:** February 25, 2026
**Author:** Patrick Duggan
"You Can Tell Bill I Paid for Mila's Computer School"
That's Jeffrey Epstein, in an email to Boris Nikolic — Bill Gates' science advisor — on April 28, 2015.
Not a leak. Not a hack. Department of Justice release. EFTA02384272, Dataset 11.
Epstein wasn't just paying for a young woman's education. He was making sure Gates *knew* he paid. That's not charity. That's a receipt.
Who Is Mila Antonova?
She appears across **65+ DOJ documents** spanning 2009 to 2019. Three aliases in the files: Antonova, Abramova, Antanova. She has been publicly reported as the Russian bridge player who had a relationship with Bill Gates.
What the documents show is something the press hasn't fully mapped: Epstein built **total dependency** around this woman — housing, employment, education, immigration, emotional support — and then used that dependency as leverage with one of the richest men on Earth.
Thread A: The Boris Nikolic Pipeline
Boris Nikolic was Bill Gates' science advisor at the Gates Foundation. He was also named as a **backup executor in Jeffrey Epstein's will**.
On October 14, 2013, Lesley Groff — Epstein's executive assistant — emailed Epstein:
> *"Boris has organized for Mila to come see you on Nov. 7th at 3pm... Boris is suggesting a length of an hour to an hour and a half... how long would you like the meeting to be?"*
> — EFTA02373883
Boris introduced Mila to Epstein. A formal screening. An hour to ninety minutes.
Eighteen months later, Epstein emails Boris:
> *"you can tell bill i paid for milas computer school"*
> — EFTA02384272
The pipeline: Boris introduces Mila to Epstein. Epstein funds Mila. Epstein tells Boris to tell Gates. Three nodes in a triangle. The financial chain creates leverage.
Thread B: The Five Pillars of Control
The documents reveal comprehensive dependency — not one favor, but a system:
**1. Housing** — Apartment 7J in Epstein's NYC building. Welcome letter printed and left with the doorman, April 2018 (EFTA02244643). The same apartment that hosted Noam Chomsky and other guests Epstein was cultivating.
**2. Employment** — From at least November 2011, emails were sent from "Lesley Groff MIla" — the dual-identity assistant account. Mila managed Epstein's daily schedule: travel, food, legal proceedings, visitor coordination. She booked first-class Air France to Paris (EFTA02518217). She scheduled depositions (EFTA02513534). She ordered "little sandwiches and cookies" for his evenings (EFTA02342923).
**3. Education** — Computer school tuition. Paid by Epstein. Reported to Gates via Nikolic.
**4. Immigration** — On October 12, 2017, an email references arranging an immigration attorney for "Mila Abramova" (EFTA02227074). Controlling someone's immigration status in a foreign country is a profound form of power. Leaving means deportability.
**5. Emotional Dependency** — The earliest emails are from November 2009. Mila is in London, struggling:
> *"I feel I can't do it on my own anymore! I almost finish all the positive energy you gave me last time when I saw you! My batterys are almost finished! ... since I spent that weekend with you I started to belive more in me and my powers... but as I said before, I'm becoming week."*
Epstein's response:
> *"you are welcome to come to florida for a week, DO NOT start to think about christmas, and going home for the holidays and deciding after the new year, you are unique and need to take control NOW"*
> — EFTA02435483
Isolate from support systems. Create urgency. Position yourself as the only source of validation. Textbook.
Thread C: Harvard, October 2018
Three months before Epstein's arrest, Mila accompanied him to Harvard as his "assistant." She flew into Boston Logan, took an Uber to the office, and **had a key to Martin Nowak's office** at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
The day's schedule (EFTA02260113):
- 11:30am — Martin Nowak (evolutionary dynamics, major Epstein funding recipient)
- 2:00pm — John De La Parra (Caleb Harper's group)
- 3:30pm — Joscha Bach (AI researcher)
- 5:30pm — Larry Summers (former Treasury Secretary, former Harvard president)
- 7:00pm — Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab director, later resigned over Epstein ties)
This is a convicted sex offender's entourage — including a young female "assistant" with a key to a professor's office — meeting a former Treasury Secretary for snacks and an MIT director for dinner. In October 2018. After everything was public.
Thread D: The Ghislaine Tell
On August 12, 2012, Mila emailed Epstein casually:
> *"I believe gislane is no longer with her boyfriend here in la... Philip is dating a columbian jew, living in ny, her family is good friends with gislane."*
> — EFTA01875776
She's not staff reporting to a boss. She's gossiping about Ghislaine Maxwell's love life. The misspelling ("gislane") is familiar, not formal. Mila was inside the inner circle.
The Pattern
This isn't a story about one favor or one meeting. It's a system:
1. **Identify** a young woman in a vulnerable position (London, 2009 — broke, emotionally dependent, foreign)
2. **Integrate** her into operations (assistant role, 2011-2018)
3. **Create dependency** across every axis of life (housing, income, education, immigration, emotional validation)
4. **Deploy** as an asset in relationships with powerful men
5. **Document** the favors to create leverage ("you can tell bill")
The person who controls where you live, whether you can work, whether you can stay in the country, and whether you feel good about yourself — that person owns you.
What the Government Released
Every document cited here was released by the Department of Justice. The government chose what to include, what to redact, what format. This is their filtered narrative, made searchable.
And it's damning enough.
65+ documents. Three aliases. A ten-year timeline. Five pillars of control. One email to Boris Nikolic that ties it all to Bill Gates.
Search It Yourself
Every EFTA number in this article is searchable at [epstein.dugganusa.com](https://epstein.dugganusa.com). 364,000+ DOJ documents. Full-text. Free.
The government's own narrative, made searchable, indicts the government.
*All data sourced from DOJ public releases. No leaks, no hacks, no felonies. Government-released documents, made searchable.*
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