Theodore William "Ted" Waitt (b. January 18, 1963, Sioux City, Iowa) co-founded Gateway 2000 in 1985 with his brother Norm Waitt Jr. and Mike Hammond, building it into a Fortune 500 PC maker; he served as CEO until 1999, returned in 2001, and left as chairman in 2005. He later turned to philanthropy through the Waitt Foundation (est. 1993) and Waitt Institute, focused on ocean conservation, including a $150 million commitment to the Blue Prosperity Coalition in 2019, and served on the Salk Institute board, chairing it in 2016-17. Waitt had a romantic relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell that, per reporting on the Epstein files and his testimony, began around 2003 and ended around 2010-2011 (contemporaneous press had described it as brief, c. 2011).
Maxwell helped him acquire and renovate his superyacht Plan B, accompanied him to Chelsea Clinton's 2010 wedding, and Waitt said he paid her roughly $7.2 million when they split; her subsequent TerraMar ocean nonprofit (2012) followed this period. The released files include direct 2004 email correspondence between Waitt and Epstein that appears to concern real estate, and Waitt-Maxwell emails. Called before the House Oversight Committee in its Epstein investigation in spring 2026, Waitt testified that he found Epstein "off-putting" and was unaware of any wrongdoing by Maxwell. He has not been accused of wrongdoing.
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Who is Ted Waitt?
Theodore William "Ted" Waitt (b. January 18, 1963, Sioux City, Iowa) co-founded Gateway 2000 in 1985 with his brother Norm Waitt Jr. and Mike Hammond, building it into a Fortune 500 PC maker; he served as CEO until 1999, returned in 2001, and left as chairman in 2005. He later turned to philanthropy through the Waitt Foundation (est. 1993) and Waitt Institute, focused on ocean conservation, including a $150 million commitment to the Blue Prosperity Coalition in 2019, and served on the Salk Institute board, chairing it in 2016-17. Waitt had a romantic relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell that, per reporting on the Epstein files and his testimony, began around 2003 and ended around 2010-2011 (contemporaneous press had described it as brief, c. 2011). Maxwell helped him acquire and renovate his superyacht Plan B, accompanied him to Chelsea Clinton's 2010 wedding, and Waitt said he paid her roughly $7.2 million when they split; her subsequent TerraMar ocean nonprofit (2012) followed this period. The released files include direct 2004 email correspondence between Waitt and Epstein that appears to concern real estate, and Waitt-Maxwell emails. Called before the House Oversight Committee in its Epstein investigation in spring 2026, Waitt testified that he found Epstein "off-putting" and was unaware of any wrongdoing by Maxwell. He has not been accused of wrongdoing.
What is Ted Waitt's connection to Jeffrey Epstein?
Ted Waitt appears in 379 case documents, 0 flight logs, and 0 emails from the Epstein investigation files.
Is Ted Waitt in the Epstein files?
Yes. Ted Waitt is referenced in 379 documents from the Epstein case files, including court filings, FBI reports, and DOJ releases.
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