Bill Gates was pictured with his girlfriend Paula Hurd at this year’s so-called billionaire’s summer camp in Sun Valley, Idaho.
The Microsoft founder, 68, was seen on Thursday walking with Hurd, who is the widow of Oracle’s CEO and bears a striking resemblance to Gate’s ex-wife Melinda.
Gates and Hurd, 60, were joined by fellow power couple Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, who were sporting matching denim ensembles as they rode in a golf cart.
Best friends Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King were also seen at the billionaire’s conference, walking alongside Van Jones.
This years star-studded guest list includes New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Disney boss Bob Iger, OpenAI leader Sam Altman and many more.
Bill Gates was pictured with his girlfriend Paula Hurd at this year’s so-called billionaire’s summer camp in Sun Valley, Idaho
Hurd is the widow of Oracle’s CEO and has a striking resemblance to Gates ex-wife Melinda
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed last year that Gates had found love again two years after his divorce from his wife of 27 years Melinda.
Hurd is the widow of former Oracle co-CEO and president Mark Hurd, who died at the age of 62 in 2019 after a reported battle with cancer.
Once a tech executive herself, Hurd is now an event planner and organizer, and philanthropist.
Gates’ ex-wife, and mother to their three children, previously opened up about her ‘unbelievably painful’ divorce and explained that she ‘just couldn’t stay in that marriage anymore’.
Gates and Hurd were joined by fellow power couple Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez , who were sporting matching denim ensembles as they rode in a golf cart
Best friends Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King were also seen at the billionaire’s conference, walking alongside Van Jones and Jackie Hindawi (left)
Melinda French Gates told Fortune magazine in October that the Covid-19 pandemic helped give her the ‘privacy to do what she needed to do.’ She also said in 2021 that her husband’s affair with a Microsoft employee in 2000 had broken the ‘trust’ in their marriage.
Intermixed with Gates’ extramarital liaisons is scrutiny around his relationship with Epstein, the pedophile financier who took his own life in 2019 while jailed on charges of sex trafficking minors. Gates insists the pair never had ‘any business relationship or friendship’ and their meetings were solely to discuss philanthropic ventures.
But Melinda said her ex-husband’s closeness to the predator put considerable strain on the marriage.
The Gates’ divorce settlement is America’s second-most expensive ever after Bezos’ $38.3billion split with ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos.
Bezos’ and his new love Sanchez was seen arriving at the conference Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Sanchez, known for her revealing outfits, sported a new hairdo – a sleek bob – and stunned in a knitted skirt and sweater with a pink handbag and big shades.
Meanwhile Cook was pictured flashing a peace sign wearing a blue polo, white pants and of course an Apple watch.
Michael Bloomberg and Sheryl Sandberg attend the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference
Jared Kushner’s brother Josh and his supermodel wife Karlie Kloss were also seen at the billionaire’s retreat Thursday
The annual Allen & Co summer conference in Sun Valley brings together industry titans from across the planet.
Wendi Murdoch, ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch who got married for the fifth time in June, was spotting arriving at the resort in a Dior shirt, brown pants, sunglasses and a hat.
Other media titans in attendance are Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, Heart CEO Steven Swartz, Yahoo boss Jim Lanzone, Michael Bloomberg and Sheryl Sandberg and YouTube leader Neal Mohan.
Jared Kushner’s brother Josh and his supermodel wife Karlie Kloss were also seen at the billionaire’s retreat Thursday, as were Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey and designer Diane von Furstenberg with her husband Barry Diller, Chairperson of IAC.
Bryan Lourd, CEO and co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency, Barry Diller, Chairperson of IAC, and his wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg
James Quincey, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company , Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard and Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks
The summit’s agenda and lecture topics are kept top secret to allow the one-percenters some privacy as they wander around the resort, gossiping about industry and, at times, sealing multibillion-dollar deals.
The summit’s agenda and lecture topics are kept top secret to allow the one-percenters some privacy as they wander around the resort, gossiping about industry and, at times, sealing multibillion-dollar deals.
