In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Wallace said that it wrong to believe that Gates was a 'choir boy' in his early days.
Bill Gates biographer James Wallace has claimed that Microsoft co-founder used to hold naked parties with strippers in his bachelor days. Journalist Wallace said that it remains to be seen whether the billionaire will resume his wild party ways now that his marriage with Melinda Gates is over.
It is to be noted that Wallace wrote two books on Gates in the 1990s. In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the 74-year-old Wallace said that it wrong to believe that Gates was a 'choir boy' in his early days as a tech founder.
'A lot of those Microsoft kids back then, they were young guys in pizza-stained t-shirts for two or three days working on software code,' the former Seattle Post-Intelligencer investigative reporter said.
1. Bill Gates and strippers
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Wallace made shocking revelations about Bill Gates' parties and said, 'Then they would have some pretty wild parties, where they would go out and get strippers in Seattle and bring them over to Bill's home. He wasn't a choir boy back then, he wasn't just this little computer nerd. He did have a life back then."
2. Naked parties at Gates' home
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In his second book on Gates, Overdrive: Bill Gates and the Race to Control Cyberspace, Wallace also described the alleged naked parties at Gates' Laurelhurst, Washington home.
According to Wallace, the mainstream wanted to focus on Gates' technology and business stories and therefore "didn't report on the wild bachelor parties that Microsoft's boyish chairman would throw in his Seattle home, for which Gates would visit one of Seattle's all-nude nightclubs and hire dancers to come to his home and swim naked with his friends in his indoor pool."
3. Gates and his relationship with Melinda
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Wallace wrote in his books that Gates's 'womanizing' also affected his nascent relationship with his now-estranged wife Melinda.
"Though Gates began dating French [Melinda's maiden name] in 1988, he continued to play the field for a while, especially when he was out of town on business, when he would frequently hit on female journalists who covered Microsoft and the company industry. His womanizing was well known, although not well reported, because Gates and Microsoft spoon-fed stories to industry writers for such papers as the New York Times, and none of them wanted the flow of information to stop. French was well aware of Gates's womanizing, and consequently their relationship ran hot and cold. At one point, they broke up for nearly a year, reportedly because Gates refused to make any kind of commitment. When they got back together again in 1992, however, the relationship grew closer and stronger."
4. Reason behind Bill Gates-Melinda divorce
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Shortly after billionaire couple announced their split few days ago, rumors started floating that Gates has reverted to his old bad behavior.
5. Bill Gates and his ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad
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Some reports also claimed that Gates relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Ann Winblad was one of the reasons behind his split with Melinda Gates. It is to be noted that Gates and Winblad broke up in 1987 but despite that he and Winblad went on vacation together alone for a weekend every year throughout his marriage to Melinda.
6. Bill Gates' and his Chinese interpreter
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Another unsubstantiated claims that Gates was having an affair with a 36-year-old interpreter who works for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Zhe 'Shelly' Wang, a Seattle-based translator and former air hostess, has dismissed the claims. "I thought that the rumors would go away by themselves, but I did not expect the rumors to become more and more crazily spread," Wang wrote on Weibo.
