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Bill Gates was like a 'kid in a candy store' with young pretty Microsoft interns, so much so that they were banned from being alone with him, an upcoming book claims.

Intimate details of the billionaire's relationships with women are set
to be exposed by New York Times journalist Anupreeta Das, who writes
that Gates' infidelity left his wife Melinda 'seething for a long time.'

Bill's calendar would allegedly include blocks of time which were for unexplained reasons, and his security staff were once overhauled by
Melinda because she felt they were 'enabling' him.

In upcoming book 'Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His
Quest to Shape Our World', it is claimed that the Gates' marriage
finally hit breaking point in 2019 when his connection to pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein came to light.


Comment: Indeed, it's rather alarming that such a character, who has
full support of the establishment, would be on a 'quest to shape our world'.


The look inside Gates' private life began with how he blew his chance of marrying a tech entrepreneur before he married Melinda by spending a
romantic weekend at her cottage reading a biography of Henry Ford.

The book claims that the Microsoft founder bungled his chances with Ann Winblad, an early female tech entrepreneur, even though she tried to
court him.

Winblad was 'hoping to plant the marriage seed' in Gates' mind so
invited him to her holiday home in North Carolina's Outer Banks with two friends and their two-year-old daughter.

But Gates spent the entire weekend reading the biography of Henry Ford
and only took breaks to ride a gun buggy, according to Das' book.

Despite this, Gates persuaded his wife Melinda French Gates to let him
visit Winblad alone for one weekend a year at that same cottage.

The bizarre arrangement was one of many occasions when Gates had
questionable or inappropriate contact with women, writes Das. According
to the book, Melinda Gates became motivated to divorce her husband after
his relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was exposed

She says that Bill cheated on Melinda many times and was 'like a kid in
a candy store' with young women at Microsoft, so much so that young
interns were banned from being alone with him.


Comment: Considering his connections with Epstein, his many
'philanthropic' endeavours - a number of which are are known for having provably harmful results - it's not unreasonable to suppose his
behaviour towards these interns was likely concerning, and possibly even predatory.


After Bill's connections to Epstein came to light in 2019 - which he
claims were purely for philanthropic reasons - Melinda reportedly began consulting lawyers about splitting up their $150 billion.

She formally filed for divorce in 2021 and called her marriage of 27
years and three children 'irretrievably broken'.

The document revealed that the Gates' did not sign a prenup but did sign
a separation agreement covering the distribution of their assets which
left Melinda with more than $6 billion.

Melinda and Bill met at Microsoft in 1987 when she was a product manager
and Bill was technically her boss.

It wasn't until 1993 that they got engaged, followed by a marriage
ceremony in Hawaii the following year.

But before then, Winblad was a potential Mrs. Gates who wanted to
'settle down and start a family', according to the book.

They met in 1984 and dated for three years and Winblad was seen as
Bills' mental equal with conversations about bioengineering and physics
while they were on vacation together.


Comment: Note that he married his employee and not his 'mental equal'.


Long before broadband internet, they would watch movies together while
in different places by synching up their viewing then calling on the
phone about it afterwards.

Winblad, an early investor in Microsoft and one of Silicon Valley's
first female tech entrepreneurs, hoped it would lead to a lifelong
partnership.

Das writes:
'Hoping to plant the marriage seed in Gates' mind and introduce him to
the joys of family life, she invited Mitch Kapor, the Lotus founder, his
then wife and their two-year-old baby for a visit to her cottage to the
Outer Banks in North Carolina.

'Gates spent the entire weekend immersed in a biography of Henry Ford,
although he did take a break or two - to ride a dune buggy'.
Winblad and Bill did remain so close however that he continued spending
one weekend with her - alone - each year, an arrangement which continued
after his wedding.

He sought Melinda's blessing which she appears to have given, one early concession towards Bill's relations with women which Das writes would
leave her steadily more unhappy over the years.

Das claimed that by the time Melinda filed for divorce, she had been
'seething for a long time' about the unequal nature of their marriage.

During meetings Bill could cut Melinda off, leaving her 'quietly
fuming'. When Melinda tried to stop Bill from droning on during
meetings, he found it 'difficult to take her advice', leading to tense
moments that were awkward for everyone in the room.

People who worked with Bill in the early days of Microsoft said it was
'well understood' that he had 'not factored children into his life'.

Bill was 'consumed' by Microsoft and some of his peers 'wondered what
kind of husband and father he would make'.

Coworkers were 'tired of his monomaniacal focus on work, joked that
married life would slow him down', Das writes.

Bill's early days at Microsoft were marked by parties at strip clubs
after work - the all male teams that he worked on were oblivious to how
bad it seemed.

Das writes that before his marriage, Bill was often 'besieged' by women
who wanted to date him and staff at Microsoft who hoped to catch his eye
by wearing 'Marry Me Bill' t-shirts.

A former senior Microsoft employee said he was like a 'kid in a candy
store' at the office.

Das writes:
'Well into his marriage it was not unusual for Gates to flirt with women
and pursue them, making unwanted advances such as asking a Microsoft
employee out to dinner while he was still the company's chairman....

'...Gates flirted with some of the interns at the Gates Foundation,
putting them in the uncomfortable position of having to think about
their career prospects while not wanting to be hit on by the boss.

'In one instance a colleague chastised one person for sending a
22-year-old intern to Gates' office by herself, saying: 'She's too young
and too pretty'.
Gates' approaches to women were 'clumsy rather than predatory' according
to people who saw them firsthand.


Comment: And what about those interns whom were alone with him?
Apparently his colleagues went out of their way to prevent that from
happening.


He did not 'prey on' women and ask them for sex in exchange for
prompting their new career, but instead was 'charming, respectful and
just fun', according to a former Microsoft executive.


Comment: As noted above, the ladies knew the choice they had to make, it
didn't need to be explicitly stated.


Instead Bill displayed a 'certain naivete in his interactions with
women, mistaking engaged conversation for mutual interest'.

But Melinda became increasingly unhappy about putting up with it.

According to Das, Bill's 'calendar would include blocks of time that
were ostensibly personal meetings into which few people had visibility'.

She writes: 'More than a decade ago, there was a sweep of Gates's
personal security team because they were 'enabling him to be places
where (Melinda) didn't know he was at'.

Such was Melinda's paranoia about Bill's affairs that she ordered their housekeepers not to give out his direct number when other women called
the house.

This led to an awkward moment when a female acquaintance of Bill's
called and asked to speak to him - the housekeeper eventually told her
the reason she couldn't give it out.

Das says that the Gates' went through marital counseling in the early to
mid 2000s after the birth of their youngest child, Phoebe, led them to
go through an 'especially rough patch'

But Gates 'assumed his behavior would have no consequences' and did not
appear to have changed his ways.

According to Das, the end of their marriage was due to 'different
notions about the meaning of a marital contract'.

Melinda felt that she 'genuinely believed being married would make a
difference because of her deep belief in its sanctity'.

Das writes: 'One former associate of Gates pointed out the difference
between marrying someone and committing to exclusivity in that marriage, comparing it to an arrangement (Warren) Buffet had with his first wife,
Susan Buffett, who left him but arranged for a companion for her husband'.

Buffett remained married until Susan's death in 2004.

Das writes: 'It was hardly a sparkless or joyless marriage (for Gates).
There were plenty of moments of mirth and affection... that he was
unfaithful to her multiple times over the years'.

The book says that while Bill did love Melinda, he 'didn't think he
would ever lose her.'

One source said that the divorce had been 'coming a long time', adding
that 'Melinda does nothing that isn't intentional'.

Among the other previous allegations against Bill is one from a female Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter to the company's board that she
had a sexual relationship over years with him that began in 2000.

The Microsoft board hired an outside law firm to investigate and
eventually Bill stepped down from the board of directors.

Speaking to CBS after the divorce, Melinda said that she made it 'very
clear' to her former husband that he should part ways with Epstein after
she met him in 2013.

He ignored her and it became an intolerable stress when Epstein was
arrested in 2019, putting intense focus on his connections to wealthy
and powerful men, including Bill.


Comment: As American diplomat Cindy McCain said of Epstein: "We all knew
what he was doing". And Melinda was clearly also aware of what Epstein
was up to, so much so she wanted to severe ties, but Bill, for some
reason, thought otherwise.


Melinda said: 'I wanted to see who this man was and I regretted it from
the second I stepped in the door.

'He was abhorrent, he was evil personified, I had nightmares about it afterwards. My heart breaks for these young women because that's how I
felt and I'm an older woman. My god I feel terrible for those women,
it's awful. He was awful'.

In response to the allegations in the book, Gates' representatives told DailyMail.com in a statement that the book relies 'almost exclusively on second- and third-hand hearsay and anonymous sources.'

'The book includes highly sensationalized allegations and outright
falsehoods that ignore the actual documented facts our office provided
to the author on numerous occasions,' the statement read.

'Mr. Gates has previously stated his deep regret for ever meeting with
Epstein, who he met with for discussions regarding philanthropy only.'

Comment: As for Bill's refutation of the allegations, well, he's wealthy
enough to take them to court if they're untrue.

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