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    Bill Gates acknowledges an affair with an employee, which Microsoft investigated. The confirmation of the affair and investigation comes two weeks after Gates and Melinda Gates announced plans to divorce.

    Bill Gates acknowledged through a spokeswoman that he had an extramarital affair with a Microsoft employee, which Microsoft said led its board to investigate the “intimate relationship” shortly before he resigned from the board last year.

    It is not clear what role the investigation or the affair, which took place two decades ago, played in the decision the Microsoft co-founder and his wife, Melinda, made to divorce after 27 years of marriage. When they announced their divorce earlier this month, the couple posted identical and simultaneous tweets saying that “after a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage.”

    In a divorce filing that day, Melinda Gates called the marriage “irretrievably broken.”



    washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/17/bill-gates-affair-investigation/

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    WAS SHE UNDERAGE?


    Bill Gates acknowledges an affair with an employee, which Microsoft investigated. The confirmation of the affair and investigation comes two weeks after Gates and Melinda Gates announced plans to divorce.

    Bill Gates acknowledged through a spokeswoman that he had an extramarital affair with a Microsoft employee, which Microsoft said led its board to investigate the “intimate relationship” shortly before he resigned from the board last year.

    It is not clear what role the investigation or the affair, which took place two decades ago, played in the decision the Microsoft co-founder and his wife, Melinda, made to divorce after 27 years of marriage. When they announced their divorce earlier this month, the couple posted identical and simultaneous tweets saying that “after a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage.”

    In a divorce filing that day, Melinda Gates called the marriage “irretrievably broken.”



    washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/17/bill-gates-affair-investigation/
    Leprosy, what is the significance of this?????????????????????????????
    Lock Him Up

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    Separately, the failing New York Times reported Sunday that Gates pursued women who worked both at Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

    Melinda Gates hired divorce lawyers in 2019, after meetings Gates had with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became public, the Times also reported. Epstein, who had been charged with sexually abusing dozens of young girls in the early 2000s, died by "suicide" while in custody in 2019.

    Forbes estimates Gates’s net worth at $128.3 billion, ranking him fourth on its list of the world’s wealthiest people.


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    Apple Inc. gets its turn this week to mount a courtroom defense against antitrust claims, preparing to bring in its most powerful spokesman: Tim Cook.

    Cook, a guarded chief executive who is used to carefully orchestrated public appearances, is set to testify in a trial that, regardless of the verdict, could prove to be one of the most consequential for the iPhone maker as it faces accusations it denies of abusing its market power.

    Approaching the 10th anniversary of taking over as chief executive, Cook is no stranger to high-profile, make-or-break moments for Apple. A polished public speaker, he has twice testified before Congress but never appeared on a witness stand in a trial where his words could sway a judge for or against the company.

    His testimony is likely to be the most detailed public discussion he will give on a subject that is likely to loom over Apple for years to come. Cook has been preparing for the trial, according to a person familiar with his effort. That has included hours of practice rounds from former prosecutors chosen by his legal team to simulate the witness stand.



    https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-set-to-call-tim-cook-soon-to-witness-stand-to-fight-monopoly-claims-11621245604?mod=hp_lead_pos3

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