Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has described Bill Gates' relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as "distasteful," leading to a significant change in Buffett's charitable giving.

• Buffett's firm, Berkshire Hathaway, has stopped its donations to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the first time in 20 years, redirecting remaining stock to family-linked foundations.
• Key figures involved include Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the late Jeffrey Epstein.
• Gates testified before the US House Oversight Committee about his meetings with Epstein, stating he "should never have met with Epstein in the first place."
• Since 2006, Buffett had pledged annual donations totaling approximately $47 billion to the foundation.