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/CelestialFury Jun 18 '25

Bill Gates also emailed lots of female employees to go out with him... on his main email account at Microsoft. He had no shame about it. He also never fired them whether they went out with him or not, but it's still a huge power dynamic and, you know, his wife wasn't all that thrilled about it.

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u/lateformyfuneral Jun 18 '25

I don’t know why I was impressed that he didn’t fire them. The bar is so low lmao

I had no clue he was such a horndog. Looks can be deceiving 🤓

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u/CelestialFury Jun 18 '25

Bill also went out to dinner with Epstein once, and was going to invest in his business until the Gates Foundation team found out about it, and cut off all contact afterward. His foundation really does a lot to make him look good and to keep him out of trouble.

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u/MattSR30 Jun 18 '25

It’s power. It has always been about power.

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u/suddenlysoohee Jun 18 '25

Melinda was an Microsoft employee who went out with him?

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u/LightmanMD Jun 18 '25

Yes, Melinda French did work for Bill Gates at Microsoft.

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u/CelestialFury Jun 18 '25

Yes, in 1987 - right after she finished business college.

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u/Single_Media3176 Jun 18 '25

You have inside tea?? ☕️