Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are divorcing after 27 years of marriage. What's the real reason?

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If Melinda had agreed to threesome and let Bill's ex gf move in, she would still be married to him.

 

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Bill Gates has been sowing his wild oats?

Divorce talks between Bill and Melinda Gates started in 2019 partly due to Jeffrey Epstein: Wall Street Journal

Mrs Melinda Gates' (right) unease about Mr Gates' ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein dates back to at least 2013, the Journal said.PHOTO: REUTERS

May 10, 2021

NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - Melinda Gates began working with divorce lawyers well over a year before her split with Bill Gates was announced last week, partly over concerns about her husband's dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The 56-year-old spoke with attorneys from several firms as early as October 2019, saying the marriage was "irretrievably broken," the Journal reported Sunday (May 9), citing documents and people familiar with the matter.
Her unease about her ex-husband's ties to Epstein dates back to at least 2013, the paper said.
The New York Times in October 2019 reported that Bill Gates had met with Epstein several times, and once stayed late at his townhouse in New York.
A spokeswoman for Gates said at the time that the meetings had centred on philanthropy.
Epstein had died in jail two months prior while awaiting trial on federal charges related to sex trafficking.


The divorce was negotiated during the pandemic, involving legal teams working with a mediator to divide their fortune, which the Bloomberg Billionaires Index pegs at US$145 billion (S$192 billion).
The couple said this week that they plan on remaining co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will continue to jointly lead.
They've vowed to give away the vast majority of their wealth.

 

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Long before divorce, Bill Gates had reputation for questionable behaviour​

It is not clear how much Ms Melinda French Gates knew about her husband's behaviour or to what degree it contributed to their split.PHOTO: REUTERS

May 17, 2021

NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - By the time Melinda French Gates decided to end her 27-year marriage, her husband was known globally as a software pioneer, a billionaire and a leading philanthropist.
But in some circles, Bill Gates had also developed a reputation for questionable conduct in work-related settings. That is attracting new scrutiny amid the breakup of one of the world's richest, most powerful couples.
In 2018, Ms French Gates was not satisfied with her husband's handling of a previously undisclosed sexual harassment claim against his longtime money manager, according to two people familiar with the matter. After Mr Gates moved to settle the matter confidentially, Ms French Gates insisted on an outside investigation. The money manager, Michael Larson, remains in his job.
On at least a few occasions, Mr Gates pursued women who worked for him at Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to people with direct knowledge of his overtures. In meetings at the foundation, he was at times dismissive towards his wife, witnesses said.
And then there was Jeffrey Epstein, whom Mr Gates got to know beginning in 2011, three years after Epstein, who faced accusations of sex trafficking of girls, pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Ms French Gates had expressed discomfort with her husband spending time with the sex offender, but Mr Gates continued doing so, according to people who were at or briefed on gatherings with the two men.



So, in October 2019, when the relationship between Mr Gates and Epstein burst into public view, Ms French Gates was unhappy. She hired divorce lawyers, setting in motion a process that culminated this month with the announcement that their marriage was ending.
It is not clear how much Ms French Gates knew about her husband's behaviour or to what degree it contributed to their split.
The announcement of their divorce has brought attention to a marriage whose dissolution has large social and financial implications. Multiple people said that during their marriage, Mr Gates engaged in work-related behaviour that they said was inappropriate for a person at the helm of a major publicly traded company and one of the world's most influential philanthropies.
Ms Bridgitt Arnold, a spokeswoman for Mr Gates, disputed the characterisation of his conduct and the couple's divorce.

"It is extremely disappointing that there have been so many untruths published about the cause, the circumstances and the timeline of Bill Gates' divorce," Ms Arnold said.
"Your characterisation of his meetings with Epstein and others about philanthropy is inaccurate, including who participated," she continued.
"Similarly, any claim that Gates spoke of his marriage or Melinda in a disparaging manner is false. The claim of mistreatment of employees is also false. The rumours and speculation surrounding Gates' divorce are becoming increasingly absurd, and it's unfortunate that people who have little to no knowledge of the situation are being characterized as 'sources.'"
Mr Gates and Ms French Gates met at work. He was technically her boss. He ran Microsoft, and she began working there in 1987 as a product manager the year after she graduated from college.
Throughout their relationship, the two have played up the cute aspects of their office romance. He flirted with her when they sat together at a conference, then asked her out when they ran into each other in a company parking lot, according to Ms French Gates, who described their relationship's beginnings during a public appearance in 2016.
Long after they married in 1994, Mr Gates would on occasion pursue women in the office.
In 2006, for example, he attended a presentation by a female Microsoft employee. Mr Gates, who at the time was the company's chairman, left the meeting and immediately e-mailed the woman to ask her out to dinner, according to two people familiar with the exchange.
"If this makes you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened," Mr Gates wrote in an e-mail, according to a person who read it to The New York Times.
The woman was indeed uncomfortable, the two people said. She decided to pretend it had never happened.
A year or two later, Mr Gates was on a trip to New York on behalf of the Gates Foundation. He was travelling with a woman who worked for the foundation. Standing with her at a cocktail party, Mr Gates lowered his voice and said: "I want to see you. Will you have dinner with me?" according to the woman.
The woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she did not want the public attention associated with describing an unwanted advance, said she felt uncomfortable but laughed to avoid responding.
Six current and former employees of Microsoft, the foundation and the firm that manages the Gates' fortune said those incidents, and others more recently, at times created an uncomfortable workplace environment. Mr Gates was known for making clumsy approaches to women in and out of the office. His behaviour fuelled widespread chatter among employees about his personal life.
Some of the employees said that while they disapproved of Mr Gates' behaviour, they did not perceive it to be predatory. They said he did not pressure the women to submit to his advances for the sake of their careers, and he seemed to feel that he was giving the women the space to refuse his advances.
Mr Gates' actions ran counter to the agenda of female empowerment that Ms French Gates was promoting on a global stage. On Oct 2, 2019, for example, she said she would spend US$1 billion (S$1.33 billion) promoting "women's power and influence in the United States".
"Even though most women now work full-time (or more), we still shoulder the majority of caregiving responsibilities; we face pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination; we are surrounded by biased and stereotypical representations that perpetuate harmful gender norms," she wrote in a column in Time magazine announcing the pledge.
At the foundation, Mr Gates made sure his voice was dominant and could be dismissive towards Ms French Gates, causing some foundation employees to cringe, according to people who attended foundation meetings with the Gateses.
In 2017, the couple confronted a sexual harassment allegation against a close associate.
For nearly 30 years, Mr Larson had served as Mr Gates' money manager, earning solid returns on the Gateses' and the foundation's combined US$174 billion investment portfolio through a secretive operation called Cascade Investment. Cascade owned assets like stocks, bonds, hotels and vast tracts of farmland, and it also put the Gateses' money in other investment vehicles. One was a venture capital firm called Rally Capital, which is in the same building that Cascade occupies in Kirkland, Washington.
Rally Capital had an ownership stake in a nearby bicycle shop. In 2017, the woman who managed the bike shop hired a lawyer, who wrote a letter to Mr Gates and Ms French Gates.
The letter said that Mr Larson had been sexually harassing the manager of the bike shop, according to three people familiar with the claim. The letter said the woman had tried to handle the situation on her own, without success, and she asked the Gateses for help. If they did not resolve the situation, the letter said, she might pursue legal action.
The woman reached a settlement in 2018 in which she signed a nondisclosure agreement in exchange for a payment, the three people said.
While Mr Gates thought that brought the matter to an end, Ms French Gates was not satisfied with the outcome, two of the people said. She called for a law firm to conduct an independent review of the woman's allegations, and of Cascade's culture. Mr Larson was put on leave while the investigation was underway, but he was eventually reinstated. (It is unclear whether the investigation exonerated Larson.) He remains in charge of Cascade.
A spokesman for Mr Larson had no comment.
About a year after the settlement - and less than two weeks after Ms French Gates' column in Time - The New York Times published an article detailing Mr Gates' relationship with Epstein. The article reported that the two men had spent time together on multiple occasions, flying on Epstein's private jet and attending a late-night gathering at his New York City town house.
"His lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing although it would not work for me," Mr Gates e-mailed colleagues in 2011, after he first met Epstein.
(Ms Arnold, the spokeswoman for Mr Gates, said at the time that he regretted the relationship with Epstein. She said that Mr Gates had been unaware that the plane belonged to Epstein and that Gates had been referring to the unique decor of Epstein's home.)
The Times article included details about Mr Gates' interactions with Epstein that Ms French Gates had not previously known, according to people familiar with the matter. Soon after its publication she began consulting with divorce lawyers and other advisers who would help the couple divide their assets, one of the people said. The Wall Street Journal previously reported the timing of her lawyers' hiring.
The revelations in The Times were especially upsetting to Ms French Gates because she had previously voiced her discomfort with her husband associating with Epstein, who died by suicide in federal custody in 2019, shortly after being charged with sex trafficking of girls. Ms French Gates expressed her unease in the fall of 2013 after she and Mr Gates had dinner with Epstein at his town house, according to people briefed on the dinner and its aftermath. (The incident was reported earlier by The Daily Beast.)
For years, Mr Gates continued to go to dinners and meetings at Epstein's home, where Epstein usually surrounded himself with young and attractive women, said two people who were there and two others who were told about the gatherings.
Ms Arnold said Mr Gates never socialised or attended parties with Epstein, and she denied that young and attractive women participated at their meetings. "Bill only met with Epstein to discuss philanthropy," Ms Arnold said.

 

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Billy G was fucking someone else but it's not the ex girlfriend or secretary or translator etc. Ignore the media chatter and noise.

(Hint: Jeffrey Epstein.)

What about Pinky ?

 

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Melinda re virginated............Bill fucking Cn chiobu

 

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What about Pinky ?

cock no stand.....prostate cancers

 

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cock no stand.....prostate cancers

Since he got no FB under watchful eyes of HC,most likely he PCC a lot .

 

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Bill Gates was investigated by Microsoft directors over relationship: Dow Jones​

Mr Bill Gates left the Microsoft board before the probe was completed, Dow Jones reported.PHOTO: NYTIMES

May 17, 2021

SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) - Microsoft's directors started a probe into Mr Bill Gates' alleged involvement with a female employee that was deemed inappropriate and decided that the co-founder had to step down from the board last year, Dow Jones reported on Sunday (May 16), citing people familiar with the matter.
The software giant had received a concern in 2019 that Mr Gates had tried to have an "intimate" relationship with an employee in 2000, Dow Jones cited a Microsoft spokesman as saying. The board reviewed the matter with the help of an outside law firm, the spokesman added.
Board members handling the matter hired the law firm to conduct the investigation after receiving a letter from a Microsoft engineer who said she had a sexual relationship with Mr Gates for years, Dow Jones said. Mr Gates left before the probe was completed, it reported.
A spokesman for Mr Gates told The Wall Street Journal: "There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably." She said his decision to leave the Microsoft board was in no way related to this matter.

Stock transfers​

Last week, Cascade Investment, the investment company created by Mr Gates, transferred stock in Deere & Co to Ms Melinda Gates, bringing the total amount she has received since they announced their divorce to more than US$3 billion (S$4 billion).
The investment vehicle transferred about 2.25 million shares worth about US$851 million, according to a regulatory filing. That followed similar disclosures tied to Mexican companies Coca-Cola Femsa and Grupo Televisa and about $1.8 billion of stock in Canadian National Railway and AutoNation.


The couple announced their divorce earlier this month after 27 years of marriage. The Gates fortune is valued at about US$145 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

 

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I don't see why the rich can't have some fun too. What's the point of being rich if you have to live like a monk.

 

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Microsoft leaders warned Bill Gates over 'inappropriate' e-mails​

The 2008 incident involved messages in which then Microsoft chairman Bill Gates asked an employee out on a date.PHOTO: AFP

Oct 19, 2021


NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - Microsoft executives warned Mr Bill Gates in 2008 about inappropriate e-mails he had sent to a female employee, a spokesman for the company said on Monday (Oct 18).
The warning involved messages in which Mr Gates, who at the time was a full-time employee and the company's chairman, asked an employee out on a date. Senior Microsoft executives learnt of the e-mails in 2008, according to spokesman Frank Shaw.
"These e-mails proposed meeting outside of work and off campus," Mr Shaw said. "While flirtatious, they were not overtly sexual but were deemed to be inappropriate."
After they discovered the messages, executives warned Mr Gates that his behaviour was inappropriate and notified a small group of board members about the incident, Mr Shaw said.
Mr Gates told the board members that he agreed that what he had done was inappropriate, and the board took no further action.
Mr Gates left the company shortly thereafter in a long-planned departure, though he remained a member of its board until last year. The executives' warning to Mr Gates were reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal.

Ms Bridgitt Arnold, a spokesman for Mr Gates, told the Journal: "These claims are false, recycled rumours from sources who have no direct knowledge and, in some cases, have significant conflicts of interest."
She had no additional comment when contacted by The New York Times.
In 2019, after the Times reported on Mr Gates' long-running relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Microsoft's board began looking into a report that Mr Gates had, years earlier, had a sexual relationship with a subordinate at Microsoft.
Mr Gates and his wife Melinda announced earlier this year that they were ending their marriage after 27 years.
The Times reported in May that Mr Gates had developed a reputation for questionable conduct in work-related settings. The article described him making an overture to a female Microsoft employee after having attended a presentation by her while he was the company's chairman.
Mr Gates left the meeting and immediately e-mailed the woman to ask her out to dinner, the Times reported.
"If this makes you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened," Mr Gates wrote in the e-mail, according to a person who read it to the Times.
Mr Shaw said on Monday that it was Mr Gates' e-mails to that female employee that triggered the executives' warning in 2008.