Bill Gates, co-founder of the US technology company Microsoft, left the company’s supervisory board last year because he had a romantic relationship with an employee of the company about twenty years ago, The Wall Street Journal reports.
“Microsoft Corp. board members decided in 2020 that Bill Gates should resign because of a board investigation into a billionaire’s past romantic relationship with a Microsoft employee who was found to be indecent,” writes The Wall Street Journal. referring to informed sources.
A Microsoft engineer has had sex with Gates for several years, the newspaper reports.
It was “a novel nearly twenty years ago that the two sides ended amicably,” a Gaith spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal.
In March last year, Microsoft announced that Gates was leaving the board of directors to devote more time to charity.
On May 3, Gates, 65, and his 56-year-old wife, Melinda, filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage.
In 1975, Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen.
According to Forbes magazine, Gates is currently the fourth richest person in the world. Forbes estimates that Gates’ wealth is $ 124 billion (€ 102 billion).
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