New York Times journalist Anupreeta Das’s upcoming book about Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is making waves these days with what it seems to be alleging.
Gates, a global name and one of the top 10 billionaires in the world having several times held the title of the wealthiest person in the world is a very intriguing personality.
There was once a time when Bill Gates’ public image was very positive, however, the revelation of his friendship with financier Jeffrey Epstein, especially after the latter was convicted of child prostitution, and child sexual abuse, and his subsequent divorce from Melinda Gates in 2021 led to a change in public perception.
This new book has certainly not painted a flattering image of Gates, bringing up how he was allegedly banned from being alone with young interns and more.
What Does The Book Reveal?
Anupreeta Das in her upcoming tell-all book “Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World,” has claimed how Gates would allegedly cheat on his then-wife Melinda French Gates something that left her “seething for a long time.”
As per the book, soon after the couple got married in 1994 Gates would visit his former partner, tech entrepreneur, Ann Winbald yearly at her home in North Carolina.
Melinda Gates was aware of this situation and according to Daily Mail which acquired excerpts of the book, changed the security team of her husband since she felt they were “enabling him to be places where [she] didn’t know he was at.”
The book also writes that it was “not unusual for Gates to flirt with women and pursue them, making unwanted advances such as asking a Microsoft employee out to dinner while he was still the company’s chairman.”
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A former Microsoft executive even told Das that Gates did not “prey on” women or demand sexual favours to promote female employees and interns.
The executive said “He’s not Harvey Weinstein… I know of no real situation in which anyone got anything for sleeping with Bill,” and how he would show “certain naivete in his interactions with women, mistaking engaged conversation for mutual interest.”
Bill Gates in an official statement, however, has defended himself, dismissing all things said in the book and bashing the author Das.
It states, “Relying almost exclusively on second- and third-hand hearsay and anonymous sources, the book includes highly sensationalized allegations and outright falsehoods that ignore the actual documented facts our office provided to the author on numerous occasions.”
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