Posted on 05/05/2021 7:42:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After marrying his wife, Bill Gates would spend a long weekend every year at a cozy beach cottage in North Carolina — with his old girlfriend.
The billionaire Microsoft founder made sure the bizarre arrangement was part of the deal when he married Melinda French in 1994, he told Time magazine in a 1997 profile.
“We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology,” Gates said of his private getaways with fellow nerd techie and ex Ann Winblad — Winblad — who is now happily married to actor Kevin Kline’s detective brother, Alex Kline, a source told The Post on Tuesday.
Gates even sought Winblad’s approval before proposing to his wife.
“When I was off on my own thinking about marrying Melinda, I called Ann and asked for her approval,” he said, adding that Winblad gave the other woman the thumb’s up.
Winblad recalled, “I said she’d be a good match for him because she had intellectual stamina.”
Gates — who announced with Melinda on Twitter on Monday that they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage — revealed that he and Winblad started taking annual trips to his ex’s Outer Banks home when they began dating in 1984 after meeting at a computer conference.
The close pair continued making the yearly jaunt down South together even after breaking up in 1987, when Winblad, who at 70 is five years older than Gates, was reportedly more ready to settle down.
The secluded trips involved everything from riding dune buggies to hang-gliding and quiet strolls on the beach.
“We share our thoughts about the world and ourselves,” Winblad told the mag.
“And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great adventure on the fringes of a little-known industry and it landed us at the center of an amazing universe.”
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“Yet - here they are still married and devoted to each other!?”
Well the Clintons are still married too but I’m not sure about the devotion part.
There used to be a freeper who lived across the hall from the Clintons when no one had ever heard of them. Would have been the early ‘70s. One of his best tales was one night there was loud bang on his apartment door. He opened it to find a drunk and naked Hillary crawling on the hallway floor. The Clinton apartment door was open and he could hear Bill and some other chick inside. Party on, swingers!
I learned these lessons the hard way taking women for granted in my youth
It was painful
Ann Winblad looks like she could eat an ear of corn through a knot hole.
Maybe they needed the “Cone of Silence”
You is not alone...
They rented a $1000 a week house.
Look like 501’s
One of my friends told me his wife said to him “I am no longer interested in sex”. When she caught him running around, he retorted “I thought you weren’t interested in sex”
..funny how that works..
All of my ex’s have exhibited remarkable restraint.
I bet he got that blue house on OBX because people would never believe Bill Gates would rent a house like that.
“Isn’t that Bill Gates?”
“Bill Gates would not be pushing a shopping cart full of Neeses Liver Pudding in the Piggly-Wiggly”.
I think this is the nuclear distraction option to draw people’s attention away from Bill Gates is really doing.
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