Microsoft founder Bill Gates regrets his gatherings with Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financial manager who was accused of child sex trafficking, he told CNN Wednesday."It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there," Gates said.Speaking with CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday, Gates said he only met with Epstein in the hopes of raising more money to deal with global health issues."I had several dinners with him, you know, hoping that what he said about getting billions of philanthropy for global health through contacts that he had might emerge," Gates said. "When it looked like that wasn't a real thing, that relationship ended."In July 2019, federal prosecutors in New York unsealed a criminal indictment accusing Epstein of having operated a sex trafficking ring in which he sexually abused dozens of underage girls, allegations that had circulated around the politically connected businessman for years.The well-connected hedge fund manager previously evaded similar charges when he secured a non-prosecution deal with federal prosecutors in Miami in 2008. Instead of facing federal charges, Epstein pleaded guilty to two state prostitution charges and served just 13 months in prison. He also registered as a sex offender and paid restitution to the victims identified by the FBI.In August 2019, Epstein was found dead in a New York jail cell. The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said his cause of death was suicide by hanging.Gates declined to respond to the Wall Street Journal's reporting that his social connection to Epstein played a role in his divorce from Melinda French Gates, which was finalized this week."It's a time of reflection, and at this point, I need to go forward," Gates told CNN. "Within the family, we'll heal the best that we can."The tech magnate has focused most of his time in recent years on global health issues through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose leader recently told staffers that the Gates family would determine over the next two years whether it's possible for them to continue their foundation work together. If not, Bill Gates will pay his ex-wife to leave the foundation using his own personal funds.Gates told CNN he hopes Melinda French Gates will stay."That would definitely be the best thing for the foundation," Gates said. "Melinda has incredible strengths that she brings that help the foundation be better."

A New York woman is giving back to the community after more than 150 Amazon boxes that did not belong to her showed up at her house.Jillian Cannan told CNN started receiving packages at her home on June 5 thinking they were related to her business."I thought my business partner had ordered something for our studio that we were waiting for on backorder," she said. "So I opened them up to condense the boxes and I realized they were mask brackets."Cannan sent an image to her business partner asking why she ordered so many, only to find out neither she nor her partner ordered them."So I go back out and I check the boxes and it's my address, but not my name," she said.Cannan thought the packages were weird but just thought it was an honest mistake, until more started showing up. Related video: Woman uses TikTok popularity to gift thousands of dollars to wait staffShe called Amazon and explained the situation, and was told to keep the packages and put in a ticket for the mistake.The packages then started coming more frequently and from multiple carriers, including UPS and the postal service."So the one day I moved all the packages off of my porch and I left, and I got a phone call probably an hour later for my best friend's mom," she said. "And she's like, 'Just so, you know, there's a ton of packages on your porch. You can't even see your front door.'"Cannan called Amazon again, but no one could figure out if the packages were part of a scam or just a common mistake. Cannan said Amazon worked really hard to try to get the packages to stop. She and her husband even tried to refuse them at one point without any luck."Then they started coming by freight trucks on pallets in our driveway," she said.Amazon finally figured out who was supposed to be getting the mask brackets, so Cannan brainstormed with her business partner to figure out a way to use them. They own a DIY and creative studio, so they decided to use the children's brackets to create DIY mask kits for the patients at the local children's hospital.To make it even better, the duo asked Amazon to donate the rest of the supplies for Cannan's inconvenience, and the company agreed. Cannan said a few other companies are pitching in as well.She is finalizing the number of kits that the hospitals want and will hopefully be putting them together this week. She talking to some other hospitals in the area to donate the rest."It's kind of taken on this own little life of its own and it's really cool that people want to be able to give back and do something," Cannan said. "With everything going on right now, it's just crazy how it all kind of happened."