The book titled "Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World," authored by New York Times journalist Anupreeta Das, contains intimate details on how the tech mogul acted like a "kid in a candy store" whenever he was around young female interns at Microsoft. He was even banned from being alone with the girls.
"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," Das wrote.
The couple first met in 1987 when French Gates was a product manager at Microsoft and Gates was technically her boss. They got married in 1994 but problems already arose as Gates was pining for Ann Winblad, a tech entrepreneur whom he could have married before tying the knot with French Gates. Gates had an unusual arrangement with his wife that allowed him to visit Winblad once a year at her home in North Carolina, the book further disclosed.
Housekeepers were also instructed not to give out his phone number when women tried to contact him through their home phone.
Gates' coquet behavior extended to the young women working at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he puts them in an 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,'" Das wrote.
But witnesses seemed to have downplayed Gates' behavior as they told Das that his acts were considered "clumsy rather than predatory." A Microsoft executive even defended Gates, saying he did not ask for sexual favors in exchange for advancing their professional prospects.
"He's not Harvey Weinstein… I know of no real situation in which anyone got anything for sleeping with Bill," the former executive told the writer.
The 68-year-old Gates showed a "certain naivete in his interactions with women, mistaking engaged conversation for mutual interest," the executive further claimed.
According to Das, the Gates went through marital counseling in the early to mid-2000s after the birth of their youngest child, Phoebe. However, Gates "assumed his behavior would have no consequences" and did not appear to have changed his ways.
After Gates' controversial links to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein surfaced in 2019, French Gates reportedly began consulting lawyers about splitting up their $150 billion. She formally filed for divorce in 2021 and called her marriage of 27 years "irretrievably broken." The couple did not have a prenuptial agreement but signed a separation agreement covering the distribution of their assets. The wife was left with more than $6 billion. (Related: Melinda Gates to resign from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.)
French Gates raises kids in a "very middle-class" upbringing
Thinking that it was a good principle to have and not wanting three kids to grow entitled, French Gates recreated her "middle-class" upbringing – a million miles away from her ex-husband's lifestyle.
In an interview with the New York Times, French Gates said: "I think it was much more of an upbringing like I grew up in a very middle-class household where money did dictate whether I got an extra pair of shoes that year or not, right?"
When asked how she thinks wealthy parents can keep their children's feet on the ground, her answer was "allowance."
"First of all, they had an allowance, so we did not just buy them things," she said. "And they either had to buy something with their allowance or put it on their wish list, that maybe they'd get it from their grandparents or us on their birthday or Christmas."
She also warned them to never boast about extravagant trips as if that sort of thing was typical for everyone and encouraged them to save at least one-third of their allowances for donations to charity.
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