Before Bill Gates was known as an elitist nerd masquerading as a leading vaccine expert,\u00a0the Microsoft co-founder was a hard-partying womanizer who recruited local strippers to attend naked pool parties<\/strong>, and had major issues with infidelity even after marrying Melinda, according to a biography.<\/p>\n The Microsoft co-founder\u2019s wild lifestyle was well known among his inner circle \u2014 but newspapers like the New York Times hid the unflattering reports to continue getting \u201cspoon-fed stories,\u201d\u00a0James Wallace wrote in the 1997 biography<\/a>, \u201cOverdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n They \u201cdidn\u2019t report on the wild bachelor parties that Microsoft\u2019s boyish chairman would throw in his Seattle home, for which Gates would visit one of Seattle\u2019s all-nude nightclubs and hire dancers to come to his home and swim naked with his friends in his indoor pool,\u201d Wallace wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n It was a continuation from his time at Harvard, where he \u201cdid like to frequent Boston\u2019s notorious Combat Zone, with its\u00a0porn shows, strip joints, and prostitutes<\/strong>,\u201d Wallace wrote. –NY Post<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n What’s more, Bill\u00a0continued acting like a bachelor even after he started dating future wife Melinda<\/strong>\u00a0in 1988.<\/p>\n “He continued to play the field for a while, especially when he was out of town on business, when he would frequently hit on female journalists who covered Microsoft and the company industry,” writes Wallace. “His womanizing was well known, although not well reported.”<\/p>\n Melinda, who filed for divorce last week after 27 years of marriage which included her husband’s friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, “was well aware of Gates\u2019s womanizing<\/strong>” even after they were in a relationship. The couple “ran hot and cold,” wrote the biographer, adding that they “broke up for nearly a year” because Gates wouldn’t commit.<\/p>\n “When they got back together again in 1992, however, the relationship grew closer and stronger,” he wrote.<\/p>\n One of Gates’ exes, Ann Winblad, continued having ‘weekends away’ with the Microsoft executive\u00a0even after marrying Melinda in 1994.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n “A relationship with Bill early on is a test. Are you smart enough? Do you have enough common sense? Can you make the grade? Are you athletic enough?,” Winblad told Wallace, who said Gates asked her opinion on Melinda before settling down.<\/p>\n “Melinda is Bill\u2019s pick. He could have chosen any woman as a wife for life. He has chosen her, and that means she is an exceptional woman,” Winblad added.<\/p>\n Another ex, Jill Bennett \u2014 described as his \u201cfirst serious girlfriend\u201d \u2014 said they split because of Gates\u2019 fixation with working long hours.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn the end, it was difficult to sustain a relationship with someone who could boast a \u2018seven-hour turnaround\u2019 \u2014 meaning that from the time he left Microsoft to the time he returned in the morning was a mere seven hours,\u201d she told Wallace. –NY Post<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Longtime Gates friend and former Microsoft executive Vern Raburn agreed with the biography’s take on Bill – telling the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>that there was “infidelity’ during Gates’ early relationship with Melinda.<\/p>\n “Being naked in a pool is no big deal,” said Raeburn, but “there\u2019s a difference between being naked in a pool with a whole bunch of other people, and being naked in a pool with somebody else, or in a bed with somebody else.”<\/p>\n According to Wallace, now 74, Gates “wasn’t a choir boy back then.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bill-gates-pool-parties-07.jpg?itok=waigorf8\")
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