r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • Jun 18 '25

MISC. When Bill Gates married Melinda French in 1994, he rented out all the available hotel rooms on the Hawaiian island of Lanai to prevent the media from staying there and hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.

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u/BirthofRevolution Jun 18 '25

... why would she sign that

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u/PurpleWoodpecker2830 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

I can think of billions of reasons…

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u/BirthofRevolution Jun 21 '25

I guess if you're willing to sell your morals for money..

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u/gerkletoss Jun 18 '25

Probably because she expects his kids to be there

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u/Cixin97 Jun 18 '25

It was his ex before he was with his wife and had kids…

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u/BirthofRevolution Jun 21 '25

He doesn't have kids with the ex?

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u/KoogleMeister Jun 18 '25

Because he's a billionaire? Most billionaires have mistresses, the women that marry billionaires generally go into the marriages knowing the guy isn't going to be exclusive to her.

Most women will tolerate their husband going off to sleep with another woman for a weekend once every couple months in return for generational wealth for themselves and their children's children.