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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Juvenile and nerdy
That movie was the first thing I thought of, too. LOL!
Bull shit
Poor people rarely even marry any more
Guessing that *was* her. She’s 70 now. That woman doesn’t look 70.
Who the hell knows what’s going on with any couple? When you come down to it, no one outside of the two really knows how things are... and even within the couple there can be a wide difference of opinion on that. With that said, I’ve known a fair number of long-brewing “when the youngest kid turns 18” divorces, and this has the appearance of that. A lot of families don’t want to deal with the can of worms involved with child-custody, parental visitation rights, etc. so they stick it out, legally at least, until the kids are all adults. The fact that they’ve already worked out an amicable split of their vast empire indicates that this didn’t happen overnight. They’ve probably been hammering that out over the course of months, even years.
Cuck...lol
Mine would have not waited that long.
I bet they were also conducting hydraulics experiments too.
Did she ever “settle” (down) with someone else?
It’s interesting how these folks live
This open marriage stuff has always fascinated me
You need heat to have a real relationship or marriage
You need to give a shit if your darling hot wife is heels back behind her head being pounded in some motel room somewhere by some stud who’s railing her into her own euphoric caterwaul
If that doesn’t bother you then you sure as hell should not have married her
I can’t speak for all men....but the things I’ve seen girls do with me ....the thought of them doing that with someone else is disturbing
It may make for good movie drama or porn themes but in real life when a woman has left you and you break down at 1130 or midnight and call....and she doesn’t answer or worse yet “I can’t talk right now why or you calling “ or double worst case....he answers gleefully...and proceeds to gloat over what he’s about to do to your soon to be ex wife or girlfriend
You mind goes crazy.....that’s when folks can get killed
So yes I marvel how folks manage stuff like this coolly ....I would say it helps if .....they are emotionally detached or unavailable
I’m talking guys on girls I assume women have this feeling too when their man is now doing to her what they did to current wife etc
One huge caveat
The rich and famous have options
Far more then we do
Based on the turntable and the woodgrain finish on the speaker, I’m guessing that photo is from back in the day. That, and the former girlfriend is now 70. That, or this former girlfriend is an incredibly good looking 70-year-old.
Now comes the weirdness...and then the late night show jokes.
Page 69,,,,, that’s half the fun looking for it ,,,,,,,
oh god ann im gonna im gonna ah im downloading now
"...did she ever 'settle' (down) with someone else..."
Not to mention a diligent study of all the positions of the Kama Sutra.
Gates is no prize, but bumping uglies with a girlfriend more homely than his wife? Buys DOS, steals Windows, cheats on his spouse — the biggest fraud in history.
Melinda was known to be hGates’s beard.
So was this “venture capitalist” his handler?
I dated a few women like Melinda.
Very smart, above average competitve with men, more into intellectual reading ie biology while other women are reading Twilight/Pretty Women/Romance novels
Both were prudes in bed.
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