Just like many other celebrities, Bill Gates has a stylist. His sweaters, button-downs and glasses are meant to portray someone calm and approachable, current and former employees say.

His clothing choices show how carefully he's crafted an image as a global philanthropist, in the decades since co-founding Microsoft.

But maintaining Gates’s image has become more difficult, due to persistent inquiries about his relationship with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. That relationship is also affecting his major philanthropic efforts with the Seattle-based Gates Foundation.

Reporter Emily Glazer investigated the mounting backlash against Bill Gates over revelations in the Epstein files and the ways Gates’s team has tried to manage his image.

Guest

Emily Glazer, enterprise reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Related Links

Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It’s Cracking. - The Wall Street Journal

Bill Gates Apologizes to Foundation Staff Over Epstein Ties - The Wall Street Journal

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