Recently, we came across a big news story on social media confirming that Bill Gates and Melinda Gates have parted ways after 27 years of married life. The news took over the internet while leaving everyone in shock about what has made them do so. Under the blanket of speculations coming from people across the globe, the facts were still to reveal as no one actually talked about the reasons. However, according to a report published on Sunday, Bill Gates’s repute is in trouble as his extra-marital affair has been revealed. Here we have got further details!
Bill Gates Revealed for Having Extra-Marital Affair with Microsoft Employee!
Bill Gates was asked to step down from the Microsoft board after reports emerged that he had a romantic relationship with a female employee, according to a report published Sunday. The founder and former head of the US technology giant stepped down as board chair in March 2020.
According to the Wall Street Journal’s report:
“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.”
This was “an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably,” a spokeswoman for Gates told the Journal.
According to the spokeswoman, Gates left Microsoft to focus more on his philanthropic organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill Gates and his wife Melinda announced their divorce on May 3 after 27 years of marriage. They co-founded their charity two decades ago to battle global poverty and disease.
A spokesperson for Microsoft told AFP that the company got an alert in the second half of 2019 that:
“Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000. A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm, to conduct a thorough investigation.”
Some More Claims by The Employees!
The employee, an engineer, claimed in a letter to have had a sexual relationship with Gates “over years,” the Journal reported.
According to the Journal, some board members also asked about links between Gates and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. He killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for allegedly trafficking minors.
Gates’s team assured the board of the Microsoft founder had met Epstein for “philanthropic reasons” and “regretted doing so,” the Journal said.
Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 and stepped down as the company’s CEO in 2000. He gave the reason that he wanted to focus on his foundation.
He left his full-time role at Microsoft in 2008. His seat as a board director was his last position officially linking him to the company. He left this position in March 2020.
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