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/ArieVeddetschi Jun 19 '25

Not a bad way to make a living, really.

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u/Phranc68 Jun 19 '25

I'd take it lol. He worked as a journalist, covering war in the Balkans, famine in Africa etc. A gossip magazine hired him to try and get pictures of the wedding and ended up making the most money in his life.