Bill Gates was 'on verge of tears' at Sun Valley as he opened up about divorce ...

Bill Gates was 'on verge of tears' at Sun Valley as he opened up about divorce ...
Bill Gates was 'on verge of tears' at Sun Valley as he opened up about divorce ...

Bill Gates was reportedly on the verge of tears at last week’s ‘billionaire summer camp’ as he ‘fessed up to messing up’ his marriage to soon-to-be-ex-wife Melinda French Gates.

The billionaire philanthropist opened up about his pending divorce to his wife of 27 years during an ‘off the record’ question-and-answer session at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley, Idaho last week, the New York Post reported.

'He fessed up to messing up,' one of the attendees told the Post.

'He basically referred to the fact that it [the divorce] was his fault.'

The source added: 'He did seem a bit emotional about it. He might have been on the verge of tears.'

Bill Gates is seen right alongside Chubb Limited CEO Evan Greenberg at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on Thursday

Bill Gates is seen right alongside Chubb Limited CEO Evan Greenberg at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on Thursday

Bill Gates is seen right alongside Chubb Limited CEO Evan Greenberg at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on Thursday

Gates was reportedly on the verge of tears at last week¿s ¿billionaire summer camp¿ as he ¿fessed up to messing up¿ his marriage to soon-to-be-ex-wife Melinda French Gates

Gates was reportedly on the verge of tears at last week’s ‘billionaire summer camp’ as he ‘fessed up to messing up’ his marriage to soon-to-be-ex-wife Melinda French Gates

Gates, 65, came under scrutiny after he and Melinda Gates announced their divorce in May and reports emerged of his alleged extramarital affairs. Melinda, the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is seen above in Paris on June 30

Gates, 65, came under scrutiny after he and Melinda Gates announced their divorce in May and reports emerged of his alleged extramarital affairs. Melinda, the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is seen above in Paris on June 30

Gates reportedly did not refer to an ‘affair’ as the reason for the divorce.

Another person who was in attendance and reportedly heard Gates speak said that the tech mogul was ‘very moving.’

But others who were in Sun Valley reported that Gates seemed ‘agitated’ during his stay, particularly when others at the conference approached him in an attempt to strike up a conversation.

'Bill Gates was pretty much a total a*****e,' one attendee told the Post.

Gates, 65, came under scrutiny after he and Melinda Gates announced their divorce in May and reports emerged of his alleged extramarital affairs and concerns over the nature of his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Four Microsoft employees accused Gates, a co-founder of the company and its former CEO, of being an office 'bully' whose catchphrase was 'that's the stupidest f*****g idea I've ever heard' and claimed he pursued sexual affairs with employees and journalists.

A former Microsoft executive who spoke on condition of anonymity told Insider last month that 'having a meeting with Bill was just an opportunity to get yelled at, so I tried to avoid that.'

Melinda Gates herself was an employee at Microsoft, having been hired as a product manager in 1987, when the billionaire first asked her out months after flirting with her at a conference dinner.

In 2006, Bill Gates allegedly asked a female Microsoft employee out to dinner in an email after attending a presentation she had given, The New York Times reported.

Gates had an alleged affair with a married woman 13 years older than him when he was 27 years old

Gates had an alleged affair with a married woman 13 years older than him when he was 27 years old

'If this makes you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened,' Gates wrote in the email obtained by The New York Times.

A Gates Foundation employee told the outlet that the billionaire asked her on a date while they were at a cocktail party in New York.

'I want to see you. Will you have dinner with me?' Gates allegedly told the woman.

In the 1992 biography Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, author James Wallace revealed Gates had an alleged affair with a married woman 13 years older than him when he was 27 years old.

Gates' alleged affair was with the wife of an Osborne Computer executive who lived abroad, according to the biography.

An Osborne Computer executive who knew about the alleged affair told Wallace that 'Bill had a real fondness for older women then.'

Adam Osborne, who developed the first commercially successful PC known as Osborne 1, allegedly demanded that Gates stop seeing the wife of his employee.

'Gates told Osborne to mind his own business,' Wallace wrote.

Gates himself told BBC that he would hack his school's scheduling software to ensure he would be the only boy in class.

'I was the one who benefited by being able to have the nice girls at least sit near me. It wasn't that I could talk to them or anything, but they were there,' Gates said.

Wallace told Insider that, while Gates attended Harvard University in 1973, he would allegedly visit strip clubs in an area of Boston once referred to as the Combat Zone because of its notorious strip

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