September 19, 2024

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Bill Gates employed strippers, held bare events throughout youthful days: Report

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been making headlines ever since he introduced that he’s getting a divorce from his spouse Melinda Gates after 27 years of marriage. Now, in one other surprising revelation, journalist James Wallace who authored two books about Gates throughout the Nineteen Nineties, has accused Gates of being a ‘womanizer’ since his early years.
In an interview with the Daily Mail, Wallace stated that the billionaire was way over simply “a little computer nerd”. He claimed that Bill Gates held “wild” bare events with strippers in his bachelor days.
“Gates was no choir boy in his early days as a tech founder”, Wallace stated in an interview with the British newspaper, furthering that Gates’ ‘womanizing’ wasn’t even curtailed when he started relationship his now-estranged spouse Melinda Gates, which in the end led to their divorce.
Bill Gates held ‘wild parties’ in his house, James Wallace discloses
“A lot of those Microsoft kids back then, they were young guys in pizza-stained t-shirts for two or three days working on software code,” Wallace stated, including: “Then they would have some pretty wild parties, where they would go out and get strippers in Seattle and bring them over to Bill’s home.”
The alleged ‘wild parties’ use to happen at Bill Gates’ Laurelhurst, Washington house and have been first detailed in James Wallace’s e book, Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace.
Bill Gates was a womanizer and the media and Melinda knew about it, claims the journalist
According to the journalist, the mainstream media needed to deal with the tech mogul’s expertise and enterprise tales and due to this fact “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.”
It was a continuation from his time at Harvard, the place he “did like to frequent Boston’s notorious Combat Zone, with its porn shows, strip joints, and prostitutes,” Wallace wrote.
“Though Gates began dating Melinda in 1988, he continued to play the field for a while, especially when he was out of town on business, he would frequently hit on female journalists who covered Microsoft and the company industry,” the creator wrote.
“His womanizing was well known, although not well reported” and his spouse “was well aware of Gates’s womanizing,” and “consequently their relationship ran hot and cold,” Wallace stated.
Media solely reported what they have been spoon fed by Microsoft: James Wallace
He furthered that although Gates fixation was well-known, it was not reported because the billionaire spoon fed tales to media homes just like the New York Times, which didn’t wish to miff the tech large as it could cease the “flow of information”.
“At one point, they (Bill Gates and Melinda Gates) broke up for nearly a year, reportedly because Gates refused to make any kind of commitment. When they got back together again in 1992, however, the relationship grew closer and stronger,” Wallace continued.
Unsubstantiated claims of Gates’ affair doing the rounds
Recently, after Bill Gates introduced his divorce, stories began pouring in that the billionaire might need reverted to his previous habits. Some stories claimed that Gates relationship along with his ex-girlfriend, Silicon Valley enterprise capitalist Ann Winblad was one of many causes behind his break up with Melinda Gates.
It is to be famous that Gates and Winblad broke up in 1987 however regardless of that, the duo went on trip collectively alone for a weekend yearly all through his marriage to Melinda.
Another unsubstantiated declare started doing the rounds that Gates was having an affair with a 36-year-old Chinese interpreter who works for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Zhe ‘Shelly’ Wang, nonetheless, refuted the claims that she was accountable for the divorce of the couple.
“I thought that the rumors would go away by themselves, but I did not expect the rumors to become more and more crazily spread,” Wang wrote on Weibo.