Bill Gates is no longer a heart to take.
According to several media, the co-founder of Microsoft is in a relationship with Paula Hurd, widow of Mark Hurd, the former CEO of the software company Oracle and ex-boss of Hewlett-Packard.
"They are inseparable," said a friend of the couple in the columns of the
Daily Mail
.
"They've been together for over a year and she's still described as a 'mystery woman', but those close to them know they're romantically involved."
In the American media
People
, another source close to the duo confirms the idyll: "It is widely known that Bill Gates and Paula Hurd go out together, but she has not yet met his children."
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Two tennis lovers
If the
Daily Mail
was the first to reveal the information, Bill Gates (67) and Paula Hurd (60) were photographed in the stands of the Australian Open last January, sitting side by side to watch in the men's singles final.
The couple would also have taken advantage of their visit to Australia to meet the country's Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, in Sydney.
Bill Gates and Paula Hurd attend the Australian Open Men's Singles Final.
(Melbourne, January 29, 2023.) Abaca
A few months earlier, in September, Bill Gates and Paula Hurd were spotted together at the Laver Cup at the O2 Arena in London.
And it would seem that it was their love of tennis that led them to date.
Already in 2015, the duo had been photographed on a tennis court, exchanging a few balls.
At the time, however, Bill Gates was still married to his longtime wife Melinda French, and Paula to Mark Hurd, her husband and father of her two daughters Kathryn and Kelly.
Silicon Valley personality Mark Hurd spent most of his career at technology company NCR, then Hewlett-Packard, before joining Oracle in 2010. When he died in 2019, his fortune was estimated at $500 million. dollars.
Enough to motivate Paula Hurd, formerly an executive in the technology sector, to engage in numerous philanthropic activities (like a certain... Melinda French Gates), a commitment that she carries out in parallel with "event planner" missions. (read, event planner) that she used to do.
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"I am not a robot"
The formalization of this new
power couple
comes almost two years after the announcement of the divorce between Bill and Melinda Gates.
In May 2021, to everyone's surprise, both announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage.
"After careful consideration and hard work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage," Jennifer's parents, Phoebe and Rory Gates, tweeted in a joint statement.
Despite their separation, the former couple had however said that they wanted to continue to work together for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, created in 2000.
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Since their divorce, pronounced in August in 2021, Bill Gates has never revealed to be in a relationship again.
But when the BBC asked him last week if he'd like to find love again, the former world's richest man replied: "Of course I'm not a robot."
