The 65-year-old announced his divorce from Melinda French Gates, his wife of 27 years, on May 4. 'We all assumed that it was when he was with women,' one Microsoft employee told the magazine. It has now emerged that French Gates hired divorce lawyers in 2019 after meetings that Gates had with Jeffrey Epstein became public. French Gates was said to have been deeply uncomfortable with Epstein after their first meeting, and urged her husband to steer clear of the pedophile financier. French Gates was also said to be unhappy with an investigation into Bill Gates' money manager Michael Larson, in 2018, which ended with the woman involved receiving a payoff.

Source: Daily Mail June 08, 2021 04:35 UTC