for 27 years Bill Gates y Melinda French They were married, forming one of the most glamorous couples in the world of technology. The billionaires came to create the foundation that bears their names to promote philanthropic projects.
Bill Gates’ infidelities led Melinda French to file for divorce in 2021. The journalist Gayle King asked him in his first interview after the breakup, granted in 2022: “Once trust is broken, it’s hard to get it back, right?”
French replied: “A lot. It is very difficult to recover it. But in any relationship, right?
However, the dynamic that they showed behind the scenes during their marriage was commendable. And in 2018 they came to publish, on Bill Gates’s blog, How was the relationship between the two?
Bill Gates and Melinda French, from being next to each other to going face to face
What did they think about each other when were you married?
“Bill and I have two things going for us,” recounted Melinda French. “First, we believe in basic values. For our wedding, Bill’s parents gave us a sculpture of two birds side by side, facing the horizon, and it still stands in front of our home. I think about them all the time, because fundamentally we look in the same direction.
“Second, Bill is very open-minded, which is not necessarily how people perceive it. I love him because he has a charitable heart, listens to others and is carried away by what they say.
The billionaire recounted: “Some people see Melinda as the heart of our foundation, the emotional part. But as she knows, I’m more emotional than people think, and I know that she is more analytical than people think.
“When I get really excited about something, I count on her to know if I’m being realistic. I also love seeing her bring the right mix of people to solve a problem (…) We are partners in both ways, at home and at work.
The Jeffrey Epstein case
There is an example that certifies, after the divorce, how Bill Gates did not always make good decisions, and how Melinda French was the one with her feet on the ground: The case of Jeffrey Epstein.
The creator of Microsoft was close to the pedophile and sexual predator, who died in prison in 2019. Melinda French always hated him, and Bill constantly criticized his presence.
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“I didn’t like that I had meetings with him,” Melinda recounted in the 2022 interview. “I made it clear to him. I met Jeffrey Epstein exactly once. I wanted to see who that man was and I regretted it the second. It was abominable, the devil himself. After that I had nightmares about him. That’s why my heart breaks with all those young girls.”
Bill Gates would later regret: “It was a tremendous error in judgment.”
Today, the billionaire dates Paula Hurd, widow of Mark Hurd, former president of Oracle and HP. while Melinda is being linked to journalist Jon Du Pre, Fox News correspondent. Life goes on.
