In the middle of the divorce between Bill and Melinda Gates, it has been revealed that the businessman and co-founder of Microsoft had an extramarital affair with one of his employees.
Anonymous sources told the newspaper The Wall Street JournaHe, that members of the Microsoft board of directors already suspected a sexual relationship between Bill Gates and an employee for which they ordered an investigation.
According to the newspaper, the Microsoft Board of Directors hired a legal firm to investigate the case at the end of 2019, after an engineer revealed that she had had sexual relations with the businessman for several years.
Given the speculation that this could be the reason that Bill Gates left the Microsoft board of directors, a spokeswoman for the businessman denied it, but admitted that there was a relationship with the employee.
The spokeswoman explained that the romance between Gates and the Microsoft worker occurred almost 20 years ago and ended in a “friendly” way.
“His decision to gradually leave the board is in no way related to this issue,” said the spokeswoman for the businessman.
While Microsoft noted in an email sent to The Associated Press that “in the second half of 2019 it received information that Bill Gates tried to maintain an intimate relationship with a company employee in 2000.”
The company stated that throughout the investigations they provided full support to the employee who presented the accusation.
It was on March 13, 2020 that Bill Gates announced his departure from the board of directors, before the investigations concluded, and indicated that he did so to focus on his philanthropic activities.
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