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The claim: Bill Gates and Ghislaine Maxwell are first cousins
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, the false claim that Maxwell was the sister of Dr. Anthony Fauci s wife began to circulate. Roughly a month later, USA TODAY debunked a post, shared hundreds of thousands of times, that wrongly connected her to a list of roughly 100 politicians and public figures accused of sex crimes. And in December 2020, USA TODAY also reported that users falsely identified Chief Justice John Roberts in a photo with Maxwell.