This week, a world exclusive investigation by the Daily Mail has uncovered a potentially disturbing and unexplained link between Gates’ erstwhile Russian ‘lover’ and Kremlin spook Chapman. While there is no evidence of any wrongdoing on Antonova’s part, it seems to be a connection which raises serious questions for Gates and, of course, for the California-based Russian herself. …

The woman on the right is Russian bridge player Mila Antonova, the woman alleged this week to have been the former lover of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates – as well as an associate and financial beneficiary of the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

What makes this photograph sensational, however, is the presence of the flame-haired woman on the left. She is none other than notorious Moscow spy Anna Chapman.

[“Chapman” has returned to Russia as part of a spy swap with the US. It seems unlikely she will speak about this publicly, but the FBI might have an interest in privately chatting with Antonova now even apart from the extortion attempt by Epstein. When the extortion plot was uncovered, some speculated whether that might have some connection to Russian intelligence. This photo, if on the level, seems like too much of a coincidence. — Ed]