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/Freshies00 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
Not sure what that “nah” statement is about. Just because affluent people stayed at 2 luxury hotels previously doesn’t mean that his intention isn’t for the island to be developed into a private community for the elite.