Shock: Bill Gates was forced to leave the Microsoft board last year due to a shady relationship with a female employee

Bloomberg, citing a source close to the company, said that Microsoft’s board of directors started an investigation into Bill Gates last year with allegations related to a female employee. The move was deemed “inappropriate” by Microsoft and subsequently forced Bill Gates to resign from the company’s board of directors last year.

Specifically in 2019, Microsoft received information that Bill Gates had intentionally “became intimate” with a female employee since 2000. A Microsoft spokesperson said that the company’s board of directors had reviewed the matter with a female employee. the help of an outside law firm.

Board members hired the law firm to conduct the investigation after receiving a letter from a Microsoft engineer saying she had had an affair with Gates for many years. Gates left the Microsoft board before the investigation was complete.

A spokesman for Gates did not immediately respond to comment on this matter.

Since the shocking divorce announcement earlier this month, the hidden corners of Bill Gates’ rich and peaceful life have gradually been revealed.

Earlier, a source from the WSJ revealed that Melinda French Gates began working with divorce lawyers a year before officially announcing her divorce from Bill Gates. The reason was revealed because Bill Gates regularly met with famous sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

The New York Times in October 2019 once reported that Bill Gates had met Epstein many times and once stayed late at night at a house in New York. A spokesman for Bill Gates said at the time that meetings between the two focused solely on charity. Epstein died in prison two months before he was due to appear in court in connection with child sex trafficking matters.

In 2020, Microsoft announced that Bill Gates would leave the board of this company. The billionaire will also step down from the board of Warren Buffett’s investment company – Berkshire Hathaway.

“I have decided to leave two boards to devote more time to philanthropic causes, including global health, educational development, and deeper involvement in climate change,” Gates said. said on personal page. However, according to current information, Bill Gates’ departure is not simply because of the desire to “spend more time on charitable activities”.

Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen. He was CEO until 2000, then passed it to Steve Ballmer. Currently, this position is held by Satya Nadella.

Over the past decade, Gates has gradually withdrawn from Microsoft. In 2014, he left the position of Chairman of this company. Gates has spent more time giving to charity since the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was founded in 2008.

According to FactSet, Gates belongs to Microsoft’s largest shareholder group with a 1.36% stake. The company went public in 1986 and is now one of the most valuable businesses on the planet with a market capitalization of about $1,210 billion.