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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MONEY....
changes every...thing......
I tend to agree.
But how do you think that made Mrs Gates feel. “You are my wife but I need someone smart to talk with and you aren’t smart enough”
It’s a wonder they made it 27 years in my opinion.
I’m going to the beach.. I’ll be “reading biology textbooks and listening to tapes on the topic of physics.” Sounds fun.🙄
LOL!!
Well, there is Smart and then there is Smart. LOL
She was smart enough to Marry a Billionaire, so I’ll give her that.
At least he’s original.........
Maybe she was just a cover for all the underage girls Jeffrey Epstein provided him...
WHAT????
Not bad for 70...
don’t forget about the RAM
Can’t be....that photo is not a 70 yr old woman.
I suspect there’s been more than these two.
Gates obviously makes his own rules....
And not one of them will be attractive.
Yeah, putt putt and physics...that’s what it was...lol...but with gates it may have been...confirmation of insanity....
We know a few things about Bill Gates, he has billions of dollars, he got his wife to agree to secluded weekends alone with the ex-girlfriend, and he was a frequent flyer with Jeffery Epstein on the Lolita Express, so he probably is a pedophile as well...
So maybe he prefers his females to be under 18 years old..is all I’m saying..
maybe Mrs. Gates was thrilled she did not have to listen to him, at least for a short period, once a year.
"...money changes everything..."
Apparently you are unfamiliar with F. Scott Fitzgerald. Pity.
The wife is dumb as a stump, so he kept contact with his mirror image.
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