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Aug 13, 2020 · Although Gates’ mother, Mary Gates, had the maiden name Maxwell, the Facebook post provides no connection between her and Ghislaine Maxwell’s family. Mary Gates’ father, James Willard ...
James Willard Maxwell was born 8 September 1864 in Iowa, United States to Thomas George Maxwell (1835-aft1900) and Louisa May Woodworth (1842-) and died 2 April 1951 Seattle, King County, Washington, United States of unspecified causes.
- The Claim: Bill Gates and Ghislaine Maxwell Are First Cousins
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Since British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was charged in July 2020 with aiding Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of minors, many claims linking her with other celebrities have popped up on social media. Days after her arrest, for example, thefalse claim that Maxwell was the sister of Dr. Anthony Fauci's wife began to circulate. Roughly a month later, ...
For this claim to be true, and for the maiden name of Mary Gates to have come from the same Maxwell family as did Ghislaine, Ghislaine Maxwell's father would have had to be Gates' maternal uncle. In other words, the claim assumes Mary Gates' brother is Ghislaine Maxwell's father. Yet Mary Gates did not have a brother: She was an only child, accordi...
Cielo's post uses a blurred photo of a woman standing behind Gates at what looks like a social function, which first appeared on Purepeople.comin 2008. The article on the French celebrity gossip site states that it was taken at a nightclub in Gothenburg, Sweden, where Gates' friend Charles Simonyi was hosting a party before his wedding to Lisa Pers...
We rate this post FALSE. Public records show that Mary Maxwell Gates did not have a brother, and thus that Bill Gates could not be related to Ghislaine Maxwell through her. No credible evidence available online contradicts this.
FactCheck.org, July 10, 2020, Social Media Posts Spread False Claim About Fauci's WifeUSA TODAY, Aug.7, 2020, Fact check: Sex crimes by public officials not connected to Ghislaine MaxwellAssociated Press through New York Times, June 11, 1994, Mary Gates, 64; Helped Her Son Start MicrosoftFind A Grave, accessed March 5, James Willard Maxwell Jr.When James Willard Maxwell Sr. was born on 8 September 1864, in Iowa, United States, his father, Dr. Thomas George Maxwell, was 29 and his mother, Louisa Maria Woodworth, was 22. He married Belle Oakley on 23 October 1889, in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States.
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Her paternal grandfather, James Willard Maxwell (1864–1951), was president of the National City Bank in Seattle from 1911 to 1929 and a director of the Seattle branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Aug 13, 2020 · Gates’ mother was born Mary Maxwell in Seattle in 1929, the daughter of James Willard Maxwell and Adele Thompson, according to the biography “Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire.” There is no evidence she is related to Robert Maxwell or his daughter Ghislaine Maxwell, who both lived in the U.K. for most of their ...
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James Willard “J. W.” Maxwell. Birth. 8 Sep 1864. Iowa, USA. Death. 2 Apr 1951 (aged 86) Seattle, King County, Washington, USA. Burial. Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown Add to Map.
