Are you smart enough? Do you have enough common sense? Can you make the grade? Are you athletic enough?” she told Wallace in his book. “A relationship with Bill early on is a test. Gates even asked his ex for her opinion on Melinda before he settled down, with Winblad describing it as his future wife passing a “test” rather than being a “serendipitous choice.”Ī young Melinda Gates seen in an old photograph. The book included interviews with some of Gates’ exes, including Ann Winblad, whom he continued having weekends away with even after marrying Melinda in 1994.
Bill Gates’ womanizing habits were “not well reported,” according to biographer James Wallace. “When they got back together again in 1992, however, the relationship grew closer and stronger,” he wrote. “Consequently their relationship ran hot and cold,” he wrote, adding that the couple “broke up for nearly a year” because of Gates’ refusal to commit. Melinda - who last week filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage - “was well aware of Gates’s womanizing” even after they started dating, Wallace insisted. “His womanizing was well known, although not well reported,” Wallace wrote, singling out the Times for not wanting “the flow of information to stop” from the computer guru. “He continued to play the field for a while, especially when he was out of town on business, when he would frequently hit on female journalists who covered Microsoft and the company industry,” the author wrote.īill and Melinda Gates announce they are getting divorced Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are in the midst of a divorce after being married for 27 years. Getty ImagesĪnd Gates’ bachelor lifestyle didn’t end when he started dating future wife Melinda French in 1988, Wallace wrote in the biography, one of two he has penned about Gates. He was apparently a “womanizer” when he was younger, according to a biographer. It was a continuation from his time at Harvard, where he “did like to frequent Boston’s notorious Combat Zone, with its porn shows, strip joints, and prostitutes,” Wallace wrote. They “didn’t report on the wild bachelor parties that Microsoft’s boyish chairman would throw in his Seattle home, for which Gates would visit one of Seattle’s all-nude nightclubs and hire dancers to come to his home and swim naked with his friends in his indoor pool,” Wallace wrote.
The Microsoft co-founder’s wild lifestyle was well known among his inner circle - but newspapers like the New York Times hid the unflattering reports to continue getting “spoon-fed stories,” James Wallace wrote in the 1997 biography, “Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace.” Bill Gates’ purchase of North Dakota farmland has locals ‘livid’: officialīuffett could stiff Gates by steering billions to his own abortion-rights charity: reportīill Gates’ daughter Phoebe is a bikini activist: ‘I’m not shy about my body’ĭespite Epstein ties, Bill Gates favored over other billionaires: pollīehind his image as a straight-laced tech mogul, Bill Gates was notorious for throwing naked pool parties with strippers and being a “womanizer” - even after meeting future wife Melinda, according to a biography.
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