Who wants to marry a Bill(ionaire)

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It’s always the one you least expect...

After marrying his wife, Bill Gates would spend a long weekend every year at a cozy beach cottage in North Carolina — with his old girlfriend.

The billionaire Microsoft founder made sure the bizarre arrangement was part of the deal when he married Melinda French in 1994, he told Time magazine in a 1997 profile.

“We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology,” Gates said of his private getaways with fellow nerd techie and ex Ann Winblad — Winblad — who is now happily married to actor Kevin Kline’s detective brother, Alex Kline, a source told The Post on Tuesday.

Gates even sought Winblad’s approval before proposing to his wife.

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[AUS-97HORN 11823]

interesting side story...

Melinda started talking to divorce attorneys almost 2 years ago AFTER the Epstein meetings became public.

Epstein link in reason for the Gate's divorce

[Armybrat 40912]

No Buckingham Palace protection for him.

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Gates ex-wife rn

[Message Board User 12396]

That sound you just heard was Bill Gates' reputation going kaput.

Articles are behind a paywall, but does not look good and Bill Gates may not have two nickels to rub together after Melinda and her lawyers get through with him.

 

Edited May 17, 2021 by Message Board User

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Bill is getting crushed in the media.

 

 

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Microsoft Corp. board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, people familiar with the matter said.

Members of the board tasked with the matter hired a law firm to conduct an investigation in late 2019 after a Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter that she had a sexual relationship over years with Mr. Gates, the people said.

 

Members of the Microsoft board became aware in late 2019 of the letter from the female engineer, who demanded changes to her Microsoft job and also shared details of her relationship with Mr. Gates, the people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Nadella and other senior executives were aware of the woman’s allegations, some of the people said.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-directors-decided-bill-gates-needed-to-leave-board-due-to-prior-relationship-with-staffer-11621205803?mod=tech_lead_pos1

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40 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Members of the Microsoft board became aware in late 2019 of the letter from the female engineer, who demanded changes to her Microsoft job and also shared details of her relationship with Mr. Gates,

She's playing a dangerous game. Wonder if she has had the wisdom to avoid getting that vaccine....

[Murfdogg21 4426]

3 hours ago, Parliament said:

Microsoft Corp. board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, people familiar with the matter said.

Members of the board tasked with the matter hired a law firm to conduct an investigation in late 2019 after a Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter that she had a sexual relationship over years with Mr. Gates, the people said.

 

Members of the Microsoft board became aware in late 2019 of the letter from the female engineer, who demanded changes to her Microsoft job and also shared details of her relationship with Mr. Gates, the people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Nadella and other senior executives were aware of the woman’s allegations, some of the people said.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-directors-decided-bill-gates-needed-to-leave-board-due-to-prior-relationship-with-staffer-11621205803?mod=tech_lead_pos1

I am not understanding why the engineer feels entitled to a title and pay bump for having a consenting sexual relationship with him. It’s not like it was coerced or prostitution right?

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1 hour ago, Murfdogg21 said:

I am not understanding why the engineer feels entitled to a title and pay bump for having a consenting sexual relationship with him. It’s not like it was coerced or prostitution right?

the short "kinda why" version is, since Bill is in charge of the company, he indirectly (through several layers of management) is her boss, and thus he sort of controls her career path in his hands.  So when she got passed over for promotion, she could claim its because she didnt put out that week.  ( even if she put out the whatever years prior to that).

 

that being said... Bill is a moron for sleeping with an underling.   I mean fuck, he would have been better off calling Ellison and having him offer her a "better" job with more pay at Oracle where she would no longer have been in his company, and they could have still kept fucking.   And Bill could have literally paid back Oracle the cost of her being employed as a freaking invoice from his own personal account without any major issues.

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3 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

the short "kinda why" version is, since Bill is in charge of the company, he indirectly (through several layers of management) is her boss, and thus he sort of controls her career path in his hands.  So when she got passed over for promotion, she could claim its because she didnt put out that week.  ( even if she put out the whatever years prior to that).

 

that being said... Bill is a moron for sleeping with an underling.   I mean fuck, he would have been better off calling Ellison and having him offer her a "better" job with more pay at Oracle where she would no longer have been in his company, and they could have still kept fucking.   And Bill could have literally paid back Oracle the cost of her being employed as a freaking invoice from his own personal account without any major issues.

At the end of the day he is still a nerd & even billions can't compensate for deeply ingrained dork genetics.

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That's why you don't dip your pen in the company ink.