Bill Gates: Explosive new revelations about his infidelities and his connection to Jeffrey Epstein
After the announcement of his divorce, the perfect image of the businessman cracks more and more.
The final departure of Bill Gates from Microsoft in March 2020 is linked to a relationship deemed "inappropriate" with a company employee in the early 2000s, according to information published Sunday by the Wall Street Journal.
The founder and former leader of the IT giant left his seat as a director of the group in March 2020.
A secret of more than 20 years
Microsoft's board members had decided that Bill Gates should step down from his board in 2020 as they investigated the billionaire's relationship with a Microsoft employee who was deemed inappropriate, “according to the economic daily, citing sources familiar with the matter.
It was "a 20-year-old affair that ended amicably," according to a spokeswoman for Bill Gates as quoted by the Wall Street Journal. He left Microsoft to be able to invest full time in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, she said, as was then specified.
The former Microsoft boss and his wife Melinda, who together founded this poverty and disease foundation 20 years ago, announced their divorce on May 3, after 27 years of marriage.
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to AFP that the group was informed at the end of 2019 that “Bill Gates sought to establish an intimate relationship with an employee of the company in 2000. A committee of the board of directors examined the problem, assisted by an external law firm, to conduct a thorough investigation.
Opaque links with the sulphurous Jeffrey Epstein
This engineer of the group had affirmed, in a letter, to have maintained a relation of a sexual nature with Bill Gates "for years", details the Wall Street Journal, specifying that the resignation had taken place before the end of this investigation.
Also according to the Wall Street Journal, the members of the board of directors had also inquired about the connections between Bill Gates and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, prosecuted for trafficking in minors. Bill Gates’s defense said it was “philanthropic relationships,” which he “regretted,” the daily said.
Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft in 1975, stepped down from general management of the group in 2000, to devote himself more to its foundation, before leaving any executive function at Microsoft in 2008.
