Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years
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Anonymous
This is offensive on so many levels .... clearly your EQ is extremely limited #himtoo moments |
"Mr. Gates married Melinda French, then a Microsoft employee, in January 1994."
Anonymous
The article says he asked out 2 people from work. In one case, he wrote her by email and said if it made her feel uncomfortable, to ignore the email, which she did. Bill still shouldn't be asking people out at the office, but that was about as harmless a way to do it as I can think of. |
Anonymous
Agreed he could have been way worse but it sounds like he had many harmless creep moments at work ... public ally undermining his wife’s talk about female empowerment when that UN sustainable development goal is a cornerstone of the BMG Foundation was pretty tone deaf .... it was commendable she waited until the youngest child graduated before filing for no fault divorce. I do hope they maintain their shared commitment to their foundation’s wonderful work in many poverty alleviation areas. |
Anonymous
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Apparently Melinda became an egomaniac Queen B diva who thought she invented Microsoft.
"According to the ex-employee, Melinda seemed to have a chip on her shoulder because “no one really did see her as an equal to Bill” and her work didn’t get as much media attention. “It really irritated her that people were more into Bill,” they said." |
Anonymous
Women can’t win - whether beautiful/ plain or engaging/ reserved or young/old or rich/poor - the narrative always warps to find them the most at fault when relationships fall apart .... |
Anonymous
Mkay. I wanna see plane logs. |
Anonymous
They’ve repeatedly said they will continue joint work at the foundation. |
Anonymous
No. She and Bill have already nailed down a separation agreement between themselves and their lawyers. The issue of money has already been settled. |
Anonymous
I see some merits to your theory. But Epstein wasn’t actually a legit money manager for lots of rich people. That’s one of the weird things about the whole Epstein situation. He never registered with the SEC as an investment adviser, for example. With perhaps an exception or two, there’s almost no evidence of him giving legit financial advice to genuine big shots. |
Anonymous
| Per CNN Bill Gates conduct resulted in him leaving the boards of directors. He had an affair and attempted others. |
Anonymous
| Yes conduct allegations. It does sounds plausible. |
Anonymous
That lack of prudent caution among the mega rich is mind Blowing ... Jeffrey Epstein reminds me of Bernie Madoff’s conman charisma that drew in so many despite all the financial and PR land mines ... they both operated massive Ponzi schemes ... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-worked-at-towers-financial-with-stephen-hoffenberg-who-committed-ponzi-scheme-crimes/ https://www.inquirer.com/business/jeffrey-epstein-hoffenberg-trump-clinton-20190711.html |
Anonymous
| Sounds like Bill is quite the ladies man. Likes the between 30 and 70. |
Anonymous
I respectfully disagree with the bolded. I have an old friend who managed a hedge fund back in Bernie’s day. He said it was obvious there was something fishy about it and his fund immediately turned away from it. All the financially sophisticated people knew it was bogus. The ones that partook despite that were either in on it or were just hoping to get out while the getting was good. Epstein was never a Ponzi scheme. We have indications of what operated and financed him, but it’s never been clearly established. The money he made wasn’t though conning people or telling them he would turn their money into more money. His money came from doing something else. |
Anonymous
l Ok point taken about Madoff — although he did suck a lot of investment experts into his biggest criminal Ponzi scheme of all time. The feds took many years to try and sue to get back small fractions of the lost pensions/ life savings of so many. I have Read three articles that Epstein’s millions came from a Ponzi scheme he was head wingman for in the 80s and 90s. It From NYT “Mr. Epstein is routinely described as a billionaire and brilliant financier, and he rubbed elbows with the powerful, including former and future presidents. Even after his 2008 guilty plea in a prostitution case in Florida, he promoted himself as a financial wizard who used arcane mathematical models, and he often dropped the names of Nobel Prize-winning friends. He told potential clients that they had to invest a minimum of $1 billion. At his peak in the early 2000s, a magazine profile said he employed 150 people, some working out of the historic Villard Houses on Madison Avenue. Much of that appears to be an illusion, and there is little evidence that Mr. Epstein is a billionaire. Mr. Epstein’s wealth may have depended less on his math acumen than his connections to two men — Steven J. Hoffenberg, a onetime owner of The New York Post and a notorious fraudster later convicted of running a $460 million Ponzi scheme, and Leslie H. Wexner, the billionaire founder of retail chains including The Limited and the chief executive of the company that owns Victoria’s Secret. Mr. Hoffenberg was Mr. Epstein’s partner in two ill-fated takeover bids in the 1980s, including one of Pan American World Airways, and would later claim that Mr. Epstein had been part of the scheme that landed him in jail — although Mr. Epstein was never charged. With Mr. Wexner, Mr. Epstein formed a financial and personal bond that baffled longtime associates of the wealthy retail magnate, who was his only publicly disclosed investor. [President Trump was once a friend of Jeffrey Epstein. Now he’s “not a fan.”] Mr. Epstein’s firm, Financial Trust Company, has released no audited financial statements or performance reports to back up his claims of investment prowess. In a 2002 court filing, Mr. Epstein said he had 20 employees, far fewer than reported figures around that time. Six years later, he lost large sums of money in the financial crisis. And friends and patrons — including Mr. Wexner — deserted him after he pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in 2008. Mr. Epstein, 66, is doubtless very rich: His real estate alone — one of Manhattan’s largest private mansions, a Palm Beach estate, a Paris apartment, his own Caribbean island and a huge New Mexico ranch — is worth more than $200 million. His investment firm reported having $88 million in capital from its shareholders in 2002. A registered sex offender known for his lavish lifestyle and high-profile connections, Mr. Epstein faced charges of exploiting dozens of girls for sex acts. PLAY VIDEO 02:29 Who Was Jeffrey Epstein? The Financier Embroiled in a Sex Scandal A registered sex offender known for his lavish lifestyle and high-profile connections, Mr. Epstein faced charges of exploiting dozens of girls for sex acts.July 9, 2019Image by Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post, via Associated Press He appears to have been doing business and trading currencies through Deutsche Bank until just a few months ago, according to two people familiar with his business activities. But as the possibility of federal charges loomed, the bank ended its client relationship with Mr. Epstein. It is not clear what the value of those accounts was at the time they were closed.” |