During their trips, Ann Winblad recalled her and Bill Gates reading biology textbooks and listening to tapes on the topic of physics.
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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physics? Ah, is that what they are calling it these days.
TMI....No one gives a sh** about Bill and his marriage.
outsourcing
I”m sure that he’ll tell the judge the only reason he outsouced some tasks was that there was no one qualified to do them at home.
“playing putt-putt”
Hmmm, reading biology textbooks...
That poor boy.
Sweetie, I just don’t know what to do next. I am on page 69 and the instructions on how to insert tab B into slot A are just not clear.
Explains a lot.
From floppy disk to hard drive.
no matter how much money they have, some men are just man whores at their core...
Imagine asking someone to marry you and saying, BTW, I will be spending a secluded weekend getaway with my ex-girlfriend at least once a year, do you have a problem with that ??
If that were me, I would not be married or I would have had my balls cut off.....either way it would have been bad, but for 50-60 billion I could be persuaded to go away and keep my mouth shut...
>> even after breaking up in 1987, when Winblad, who at 70 is five years older than Gates, was reportedly more ready to settle down.
at 36 of course she wanted to “settle down”. She couldn’t land him though.
The rich are different.
Same Time, Next year, eh?
I’m glad all this is coming out. I’ll take that self righteous prick down a few notches. I wanna hear more about his relationship with Epstein too. No privacy for this guy! He wants privacy now after the way he spies on us? After the way he wants to run our lives?
I wanna see him humiliated so he has to back down a little bit.
Let’s face it: someone with Bill’s resources could have lines of beautiful women waiting outside his hotel suite anywhere in the world. Next to that, an “old flame” is inconsequential.
Melinda knew her marriage was always part biz-arrangement from the start.
Look up putt putt in the urban dictionary, they’re some really interesting definitions of the term...
Maybe bill just decided he liked the Jeffrey Epstein women better...
She escaped Gates of Hell?
Bit of a juvenile name for it isn’t it?
She couldn’t close the deal but manged to renegotiate once a year.
My wife would have walked out in 10 seconds. And I respect her for that.
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