{"id":516982,"date":"2021-05-17T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=516982"},"modified":"2021-05-17T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:36:02","slug":"bill-gates-sought-numerous-inappropriate-relationships-with-employees-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-sought-numerous-inappropriate-relationships-with-employees-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Sought Numerous \u2018Inappropriate\u2019 Relationships With Employees: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-gates-sought-numerous-inappropriate-relationships-with-employees-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=516982&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bill-Gates-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates reportedly made numerous advances toward women employed at his computer company and his foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Gates and his wife, Melinda, announced their intention to get a divorce earlier this month. Bill Gates\u2019 reported pursuit of other women was one of several behaviors that strained his relationship with his wife to the breaking point, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/16\/business\/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple people said that during their marriage, Mr. Gates engaged in work-related behavior that they said was inappropriate for a person at the helm of a major publicly traded company and one of the world\u2019s most influential philanthropies,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Gates asked a female Microsoft employee out to dinner over email after hearing her give a presentation earlier in the day. \u201cIf this makes you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened,\u201d Gates wrote in the email.<\/p>\n<p>Gates made a pass at an employee with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation a year or two later, asking her out to dinner at a cocktail party, saying \u201cI want to see you. Will you have dinner with me?\u201d The employee laughed at Gates to avoid answering his question directly.<\/p>\n<p>The constant attempts at affairs earned Gates a reputation around Microsoft and the foundation. As the Times reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>Six current and former employees of Microsoft, the foundation and the firm that manages the Gates\u2019s fortune said those incidents, and others more recently, at times created an uncomfortable workplace environment. Mr. Gates was known for making clumsy approaches to women in and out of the office. His behavior fueled widespread chatter among employees about his personal life.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gates spokeswoman Bridgitt Arnold denied that Gates ever mistreated his employees. Arnold also denied other reports surrounding Gates\u2019 relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender who died by suicide in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is extremely disappointing that there have been so many untruths published about the cause, the circumstances and the timeline of Bill Gates\u2019s divorce,\u201d Arnold told the Times. \u201cYour characterization of his meetings with Epstein and others about philanthropy is inaccurate, including who participated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, any claim that Gates spoke of his marriage or Melinda in a disparaging manner is false. The claim of mistreatment of employees is also false,\u201d Arnold added. \u201cThe rumors and speculation surrounding Gates\u2019s divorce are becoming increasingly absurd, and it\u2019s unfortunate that people who have little to no knowledge of the situation are being characterized as \u2018sources.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gates left Microsoft in March of last year as members of the company\u2019s board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-microsoft-board-wanted-bill-gates-out-over-alleged-years-long-affair-with-employee-report\">reportedly<\/a> wanted to push him out over an allegation he had a years-long affair with an employee beginning in 2000. The affair was outlined in a letter written by the employee and sent to the board in 2019, prompting the board to hire an outside law firm to conduct an internal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably,\u201d a Gates representative said. \u201c[Gates\u2019] decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter. In fact, he had expressed an interest in spending more time on his philanthropy starting several years earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gates and his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-melinda-gates-announce-divorce\">said<\/a> in a joint announcement earlier this month that they intended to get a divorce because they can no longer \u201cgrow together as a couple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates reportedly made numerous advances toward women employed at his computer company and his foundation.Gates and his wife, Melinda, announced their intention to get a divorce earlier &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278282,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bill-Gates-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Bill Gates Sought Numerous \u2018Inappropriate\u2019 Relationships With Employees: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bill-Gates-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Bill Gates Sought Numerous \u2018Inappropriate\u2019 Relationships With Employees: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}