{"id":246594,"date":"2021-05-10T21:51:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T18:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-gates-womanizer-held-nude-pool-parties-biographer\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T21:51:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T18:51:57","slug":"bill-gates-womanizer-held-nude-pool-parties-biographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-gates-womanizer-held-nude-pool-parties-biographer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill Gates ‘womanizer,’ held nude pool parties: biographer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bill Gates ‘womanizer,’ held nude pool parties: biographer<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Behind his image as a straight-laced tech mogul, Bill Gates was notorious for throwing naked pool parties with strip<\/a>pers and being a \u201cwomanizer\u201d \u2014 even after meeting future wife Melinda, according to a biography.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft co-founder\u2019s wild lifestyle was well known among his inner circle \u2014 but news<\/a>papers like the New York Times hid the unflattering reports to continue getting \u201cspoon-fed stories,\u201d James Wallace wrote in the 1997 biography<\/a>, \u201cOverdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace.\u201d<\/p>\n

They \u201cdidn\u2019t report on the wild bachelor parties that Microsoft\u2019s boyish chairman would throw in his Seattle home, for which Gates would visit one of Seattle\u2019s all-nude nightclubs and hire dancers to come to his home and swim naked with his friends in his indoor pool,\u201d Wallace wrote.<\/p>\n

It was a continuation from his time at Harvard, where he \u201cdid like to frequent Boston\u2019s notorious Combat Zone, with its porn shows, strip joints, and prostitutes,\u201d Wallace wrote.<\/p>\n

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Bill Gates poses in July 1986. He was app<\/a>arently a \u201cwomanizer\u201d when he was younger, according to a biographer.<\/figcaption>
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And Gates\u2019 bachelor lifestyle didn\u2019t end when he started dating future wife Melinda French in 1988, Wallace wrote in the biography, one of two he has penned about Gates.<\/p>\n

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Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are in the midst of a divorce after being married for 27 years.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cHe 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,\u201d the author wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis womanizing was well known, although not well reported,\u201d Wallace wrote, singling out the Times for not wanting \u201cthe flow of information to stop\u201d from the computer guru.<\/p>\n

Melinda \u2014 who last week filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage \u2014 \u201cwas well aware of Gates\u2019s womanizing\u201d even after they started dating, Wallace insisted.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently their relationship ran hot and cold,\u201d he wrote, adding that the couple \u201cbroke up for nearly a year\u201d because of Gates\u2019 refusal to commit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they got back together again in 1992, however, the relationship grew closer and stronger,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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Bill Gates\u2019 womanizing habits were \u201cnot well reported,\u201d according to biographer James Wallace. <\/figcaption>
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The book included interviews with some of Gates\u2019 exes, including Ann Winblad, whom he continued having weekends away with even after marrying Melinda in 1994.<\/p>\n

Gates even asked his ex for her opinion on Melinda before he settled down, with Winblad describing it as his future wife passing a \u201ctest\u201d rather than being a \u201cserendipitous choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A young Melinda Gates seen in an old photograph.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cA relationship with Bill early on is a test. Are you smart enough? Do you have enough common sense? Can you make the grade? Are you athletic enough?\u201d she told Wallace in his book.<\/p>\n

\u201cMelinda is Bill\u2019s pick. He could have chosen any woman as a wife for life. He has chosen her, and that means she is an exceptional woman,\u201d Winblad said.<\/p>\n

Another ex, Jill Bennett \u2014 described as his \u201cfirst serious girlfriend\u201d \u2014 said they split because of Gates\u2019 fixation with working long hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, it was difficult to sustain a relationship with someone who could boast a \u2018seven-hour turnaround\u2019 \u2014 meaning that from the time he left Microsoft to the time he returned in the morning was a mere seven hours,\u201d she told Wallace.<\/p>\n

Former Microsoft executive Vern Raburn agreed with the biography\u2019s take on Gates, his longtime friend, alleging to the Daily Mail<\/a> that there was \u201cinfidelity\u201d during Gates\u2019 early relationship with Melinda.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing naked in a pool is no big deal,\u201d Raburn told the outlet. But \u201cthere\u2019s a difference between being naked in a pool with a whole bunch of other people, and being naked in a pool with somebody else, or in a bed with somebody else,\u201d he said of Gates not being faithful to Melinda at first.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft boss Bill Gates\u2019 mugshot from December 13, 1977. <\/figcaption>
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\u201cCertainly prior to their marriage, yeah \u2014 Bill liked to party. But I never saw any of that after the marriage,\u201d Raburn said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, I had dinner with him one night. He said he was very proud of the fact that he hadn\u2019t done any of that since he got married,\u201d he told the Mail.<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly hope Bill and Melinda end up being happy,\u201d Raburn said, calling the former couple \u201cgood people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody who tells you they have a good divorce, they\u2019re lying through their teeth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Biographer Wallace, now 74, told the Daily Mail on Monday that the billionaire tech mogul \u201cwasn\u2019t a choir boy back then.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wasn\u2019t just this little computer nerd. He did have a life back then,\u201d the former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen they would have some pretty wild parties, where they would go out and get strippers in Seattle and bring them over to Bill\u2019s home,\u201d he said of the apparent wild bashes in Laurelhurst, Washington.<\/p>\n

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Bill and Melinda Gates in 1998.<\/figcaption>
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Wallace said he doubted Gates would return to his naked pool-partying days post-divorce \u2014 but his interview noted a Page Six report<\/a> about the then-married mogul \u201cdancing Paris Hilton-style\u201d on a banquette with a group of young women at a Sundance Film Festival in 2010.\n <\/div>\n

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