“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.” Mark Cuban claims Bill Gates once stole his ‘girls’ in Las Vegasīill Gates says he, ex-wife Melinda will run foundation ‘together forever’ĭestroyed Dutch building wasn’t factory owned by Bill Gatesīehind 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. Bill Gates shoots down rumored Chinese ‘security risk’ link to North Dakota farmland

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