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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView gallery\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>Image Credit: FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\nBill<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Melinda Gates <\/a><\/strong>finalized their divorce<\/a> in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of marriage remains one of celebrity news\u2019s most shocking.\u00a0 \u201cThe divorce thing was miserable for me and Melinda for at least two years,\u201d the billionaire philanthropist confessed to The Times of London<\/em> <\/a>for an expansive interview published on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a certain wonderfulness to spending your entire adult life with one person because of the memories and depth of things you have done and having kids together<\/a>.\u201d The split was, he admitted, \u201cthe mistake I regret the most.\u201d<\/p>\nBut four years on, that didn\u2019t stop either of the Gates\u2019s from moving on. Here\u2019s what to know about Melinda\u2019s current love interest.<\/p>\nWhy Did Bill & Melinda Gates Get Divorced?<\/h2>\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Melinda and Bill\u2019s split appears to have been at least partially informed by<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/05\/17\/bill-gates-affair-cheating-melinda-divorce-microsoft-board\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"> an affair Bill publicly confirmed<\/a>, that happened two decades before their split. Still, she pushed back on any assumptions that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/why-did-bill-and-melinda-gates-get-divorced-5365192\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">the sole reason<\/a>. \u201cI certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,\u201d she told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/gayle-king\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><strong>Gayle King<\/strong><\/a> during a 2022 on-camera interview on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/melinda-french-gates-opens-divorce-journey-of-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">CBS Mornings. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t one moment or one specific thing that happened,\u201d Melinda explained. \u201cThere just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn\u2019t healthy, and I couldn\u2019t trust what we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">A source opened up about the painful split to<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/why-bill-melinda-gates-grew-apart-he-could-have-treated-melinda-better-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> PEOPLE<\/em><\/a> in a May 2021 report.\u00a0\u201cHe could have treated Melinda better,\u201d they said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a saint, but there isn\u2019t one thing that created the final split. It goes deeper than that. It\u2019s many years of differing views of the world, the foundation, and of life in general, and those things piling up. They are older and each personally looked at life and asked, \u2018Is there more out there than what I have?’\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Melinda divulged to <em>Fortune Magazine<\/em> in a 2021 interview that the COVID pandemic had helped her through the split. \u201cI had some reasons I just couldn\u2019t stay in that marriage anymore,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do. It\u2019s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Does Melinda Gates Have a Boyfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us-news\/melinda-french-gates-spotted-with-new-beau-philip-vaughn-in-ny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>the New York Post<\/em><\/a>, Melinda is currently dating former Microsoft computer programmer <strong>Philip Vaughn<\/strong>. She\u2019s been seen out affectionately holding hands with the Seattle-based entrepreneur on multiple occasions. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14021919\/melinda-gates-new-boyfriend-philip-vaughn-microsoft-bill.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, she was previously linked to<em> Fox News<\/em> anchor <strong>Jon Du Pre<\/strong> in 2022.\u00a0The outlet says Philip founded a craft beer delivery service in 2013, and previously worked at Melinda\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s company for nine years, from 1999-2008.<\/p>\n<h2>Does Bill Gates Have a Girlfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Per <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">PEOPLE<\/a><\/em>, Bill confirmed he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/bill-gates-girlfriend-5365171\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">dating<strong> Paula Hurd<\/strong><\/a> in February of 2023. The couple had previously stepped out together at the Laver Cup in September of 2022. Paula, a mother of two, was married to <strong>Mark Hurd<\/strong>, the former co-CEO of Oracle, for 30 years before his death in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/melinda-gates-boyfriend-5365230\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] View gallery Image Credit: FilmMagic Bill\u00a0and\u00a0Melinda Gates finalized their divorce in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>Image Credit: FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\nBill<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Melinda Gates <\/a><\/strong>finalized their divorce<\/a> in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of marriage remains one of celebrity news\u2019s most shocking.\u00a0 \u201cThe divorce thing was miserable for me and Melinda for at least two years,\u201d the billionaire philanthropist confessed to The Times of London<\/em> <\/a>for an expansive interview published on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a certain wonderfulness to spending your entire adult life with one person because of the memories and depth of things you have done and having kids together<\/a>.\u201d The split was, he admitted, \u201cthe mistake I regret the most.\u201d<\/p>\nBut four years on, that didn\u2019t stop either of the Gates\u2019s from moving on. Here\u2019s what to know about Melinda\u2019s current love interest.<\/p>\nWhy Did Bill & Melinda Gates Get Divorced?<\/h2>\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Melinda and Bill\u2019s split appears to have been at least partially informed by<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/05\/17\/bill-gates-affair-cheating-melinda-divorce-microsoft-board\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"> an affair Bill publicly confirmed<\/a>, that happened two decades before their split. Still, she pushed back on any assumptions that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/why-did-bill-and-melinda-gates-get-divorced-5365192\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">the sole reason<\/a>. \u201cI certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,\u201d she told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/gayle-king\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><strong>Gayle King<\/strong><\/a> during a 2022 on-camera interview on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/melinda-french-gates-opens-divorce-journey-of-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">CBS Mornings. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t one moment or one specific thing that happened,\u201d Melinda explained. \u201cThere just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn\u2019t healthy, and I couldn\u2019t trust what we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">A source opened up about the painful split to<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/why-bill-melinda-gates-grew-apart-he-could-have-treated-melinda-better-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> PEOPLE<\/em><\/a> in a May 2021 report.\u00a0\u201cHe could have treated Melinda better,\u201d they said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a saint, but there isn\u2019t one thing that created the final split. It goes deeper than that. It\u2019s many years of differing views of the world, the foundation, and of life in general, and those things piling up. They are older and each personally looked at life and asked, \u2018Is there more out there than what I have?’\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Melinda divulged to <em>Fortune Magazine<\/em> in a 2021 interview that the COVID pandemic had helped her through the split. \u201cI had some reasons I just couldn\u2019t stay in that marriage anymore,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do. It\u2019s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Does Melinda Gates Have a Boyfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us-news\/melinda-french-gates-spotted-with-new-beau-philip-vaughn-in-ny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>the New York Post<\/em><\/a>, Melinda is currently dating former Microsoft computer programmer <strong>Philip Vaughn<\/strong>. She\u2019s been seen out affectionately holding hands with the Seattle-based entrepreneur on multiple occasions. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14021919\/melinda-gates-new-boyfriend-philip-vaughn-microsoft-bill.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, she was previously linked to<em> Fox News<\/em> anchor <strong>Jon Du Pre<\/strong> in 2022.\u00a0The outlet says Philip founded a craft beer delivery service in 2013, and previously worked at Melinda\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s company for nine years, from 1999-2008.<\/p>\n<h2>Does Bill Gates Have a Girlfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Per <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">PEOPLE<\/a><\/em>, Bill confirmed he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/bill-gates-girlfriend-5365171\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">dating<strong> Paula Hurd<\/strong><\/a> in February of 2023. The couple had previously stepped out together at the Laver Cup in September of 2022. Paula, a mother of two, was married to <strong>Mark Hurd<\/strong>, the former co-CEO of Oracle, for 30 years before his death in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/melinda-gates-boyfriend-5365230\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] View gallery Image Credit: FilmMagic Bill\u00a0and\u00a0Melinda Gates finalized their divorce in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>Image Credit: FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\nBill<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Melinda Gates <\/a><\/strong>finalized their divorce<\/a> in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of marriage remains one of celebrity news\u2019s most shocking.\u00a0 \u201cThe divorce thing was miserable for me and Melinda for at least two years,\u201d the billionaire philanthropist confessed to The Times of London<\/em> <\/a>for an expansive interview published on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a certain wonderfulness to spending your entire adult life with one person because of the memories and depth of things you have done and having kids together<\/a>.\u201d The split was, he admitted, \u201cthe mistake I regret the most.\u201d<\/p>\nBut four years on, that didn\u2019t stop either of the Gates\u2019s from moving on. Here\u2019s what to know about Melinda\u2019s current love interest.<\/p>\nWhy Did Bill & Melinda Gates Get Divorced?<\/h2>\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Melinda and Bill\u2019s split appears to have been at least partially informed by<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/05\/17\/bill-gates-affair-cheating-melinda-divorce-microsoft-board\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"> an affair Bill publicly confirmed<\/a>, that happened two decades before their split. Still, she pushed back on any assumptions that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/why-did-bill-and-melinda-gates-get-divorced-5365192\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">the sole reason<\/a>. \u201cI certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,\u201d she told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/gayle-king\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><strong>Gayle King<\/strong><\/a> during a 2022 on-camera interview on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/melinda-french-gates-opens-divorce-journey-of-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">CBS Mornings. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t one moment or one specific thing that happened,\u201d Melinda explained. \u201cThere just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn\u2019t healthy, and I couldn\u2019t trust what we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">A source opened up about the painful split to<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/why-bill-melinda-gates-grew-apart-he-could-have-treated-melinda-better-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> PEOPLE<\/em><\/a> in a May 2021 report.\u00a0\u201cHe could have treated Melinda better,\u201d they said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a saint, but there isn\u2019t one thing that created the final split. It goes deeper than that. It\u2019s many years of differing views of the world, the foundation, and of life in general, and those things piling up. They are older and each personally looked at life and asked, \u2018Is there more out there than what I have?’\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Melinda divulged to <em>Fortune Magazine<\/em> in a 2021 interview that the COVID pandemic had helped her through the split. \u201cI had some reasons I just couldn\u2019t stay in that marriage anymore,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do. It\u2019s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Does Melinda Gates Have a Boyfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us-news\/melinda-french-gates-spotted-with-new-beau-philip-vaughn-in-ny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>the New York Post<\/em><\/a>, Melinda is currently dating former Microsoft computer programmer <strong>Philip Vaughn<\/strong>. She\u2019s been seen out affectionately holding hands with the Seattle-based entrepreneur on multiple occasions. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14021919\/melinda-gates-new-boyfriend-philip-vaughn-microsoft-bill.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, she was previously linked to<em> Fox News<\/em> anchor <strong>Jon Du Pre<\/strong> in 2022.\u00a0The outlet says Philip founded a craft beer delivery service in 2013, and previously worked at Melinda\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s company for nine years, from 1999-2008.<\/p>\n<h2>Does Bill Gates Have a Girlfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Per <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">PEOPLE<\/a><\/em>, Bill confirmed he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/bill-gates-girlfriend-5365171\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">dating<strong> Paula Hurd<\/strong><\/a> in February of 2023. The couple had previously stepped out together at the Laver Cup in September of 2022. Paula, a mother of two, was married to <strong>Mark Hurd<\/strong>, the former co-CEO of Oracle, for 30 years before his death in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/melinda-gates-boyfriend-5365230\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] View gallery Image Credit: FilmMagic Bill\u00a0and\u00a0Melinda Gates finalized their divorce in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>Image Credit: FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\nBill<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Melinda Gates <\/a><\/strong>finalized their divorce<\/a> in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of marriage remains one of celebrity news\u2019s most shocking.\u00a0 \u201cThe divorce thing was miserable for me and Melinda for at least two years,\u201d the billionaire philanthropist confessed to The Times of London<\/em> <\/a>for an expansive interview published on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a certain wonderfulness to spending your entire adult life with one person because of the memories and depth of things you have done and having kids together<\/a>.\u201d The split was, he admitted, \u201cthe mistake I regret the most.\u201d<\/p>\nBut four years on, that didn\u2019t stop either of the Gates\u2019s from moving on. Here\u2019s what to know about Melinda\u2019s current love interest.<\/p>\nWhy Did Bill & Melinda Gates Get Divorced?<\/h2>\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Melinda and Bill\u2019s split appears to have been at least partially informed by<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/05\/17\/bill-gates-affair-cheating-melinda-divorce-microsoft-board\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"> an affair Bill publicly confirmed<\/a>, that happened two decades before their split. Still, she pushed back on any assumptions that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/why-did-bill-and-melinda-gates-get-divorced-5365192\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">the sole reason<\/a>. \u201cI certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,\u201d she told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/gayle-king\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><strong>Gayle King<\/strong><\/a> during a 2022 on-camera interview on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/melinda-french-gates-opens-divorce-journey-of-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">CBS Mornings. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t one moment or one specific thing that happened,\u201d Melinda explained. \u201cThere just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn\u2019t healthy, and I couldn\u2019t trust what we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">A source opened up about the painful split to<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/why-bill-melinda-gates-grew-apart-he-could-have-treated-melinda-better-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> PEOPLE<\/em><\/a> in a May 2021 report.\u00a0\u201cHe could have treated Melinda better,\u201d they said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a saint, but there isn\u2019t one thing that created the final split. It goes deeper than that. It\u2019s many years of differing views of the world, the foundation, and of life in general, and those things piling up. They are older and each personally looked at life and asked, \u2018Is there more out there than what I have?’\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Melinda divulged to <em>Fortune Magazine<\/em> in a 2021 interview that the COVID pandemic had helped her through the split. \u201cI had some reasons I just couldn\u2019t stay in that marriage anymore,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do. It\u2019s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Does Melinda Gates Have a Boyfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us-news\/melinda-french-gates-spotted-with-new-beau-philip-vaughn-in-ny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>the New York Post<\/em><\/a>, Melinda is currently dating former Microsoft computer programmer <strong>Philip Vaughn<\/strong>. She\u2019s been seen out affectionately holding hands with the Seattle-based entrepreneur on multiple occasions. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14021919\/melinda-gates-new-boyfriend-philip-vaughn-microsoft-bill.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, she was previously linked to<em> Fox News<\/em> anchor <strong>Jon Du Pre<\/strong> in 2022.\u00a0The outlet says Philip founded a craft beer delivery service in 2013, and previously worked at Melinda\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s company for nine years, from 1999-2008.<\/p>\n<h2>Does Bill Gates Have a Girlfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Per <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">PEOPLE<\/a><\/em>, Bill confirmed he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/bill-gates-girlfriend-5365171\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">dating<strong> Paula Hurd<\/strong><\/a> in February of 2023. The couple had previously stepped out together at the Laver Cup in September of 2022. Paula, a mother of two, was married to <strong>Mark Hurd<\/strong>, the former co-CEO of Oracle, for 30 years before his death in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/melinda-gates-boyfriend-5365230\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] View gallery Image Credit: FilmMagic Bill\u00a0and\u00a0Melinda Gates finalized their divorce in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bill<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0Melinda Gates <\/a><\/strong>finalized their divorce<\/a> in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of marriage remains one of celebrity news\u2019s most shocking.\u00a0 \u201cThe divorce thing was miserable for me and Melinda for at least two years,\u201d the billionaire philanthropist confessed to The Times of London<\/em> <\/a>for an expansive interview published on Sunday.\u00a0 \u201cThere is a certain wonderfulness to spending your entire adult life with one person because of the memories and depth of things you have done and having kids together<\/a>.\u201d The split was, he admitted, \u201cthe mistake I regret the most.\u201d<\/p>\nBut four years on, that didn\u2019t stop either of the Gates\u2019s from moving on. Here\u2019s what to know about Melinda\u2019s current love interest.<\/p>\nWhy Did Bill & Melinda Gates Get Divorced?<\/h2>\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Melinda and Bill\u2019s split appears to have been at least partially informed by<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/05\/17\/bill-gates-affair-cheating-melinda-divorce-microsoft-board\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"> an affair Bill publicly confirmed<\/a>, that happened two decades before their split. Still, she pushed back on any assumptions that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/why-did-bill-and-melinda-gates-get-divorced-5365192\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">the sole reason<\/a>. \u201cI certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,\u201d she told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/gayle-king\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><strong>Gayle King<\/strong><\/a> during a 2022 on-camera interview on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/melinda-french-gates-opens-divorce-journey-of-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">CBS Mornings. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t one moment or one specific thing that happened,\u201d Melinda explained. \u201cThere just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn\u2019t healthy, and I couldn\u2019t trust what we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">A source opened up about the painful split to<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/why-bill-melinda-gates-grew-apart-he-could-have-treated-melinda-better-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> PEOPLE<\/em><\/a> in a May 2021 report.\u00a0\u201cHe could have treated Melinda better,\u201d they said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a saint, but there isn\u2019t one thing that created the final split. It goes deeper than that. It\u2019s many years of differing views of the world, the foundation, and of life in general, and those things piling up. They are older and each personally looked at life and asked, \u2018Is there more out there than what I have?’\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Melinda divulged to <em>Fortune Magazine<\/em> in a 2021 interview that the COVID pandemic had helped her through the split. \u201cI had some reasons I just couldn\u2019t stay in that marriage anymore,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do. It\u2019s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Does Melinda Gates Have a Boyfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us-news\/melinda-french-gates-spotted-with-new-beau-philip-vaughn-in-ny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>the New York Post<\/em><\/a>, Melinda is currently dating former Microsoft computer programmer <strong>Philip Vaughn<\/strong>. She\u2019s been seen out affectionately holding hands with the Seattle-based entrepreneur on multiple occasions. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14021919\/melinda-gates-new-boyfriend-philip-vaughn-microsoft-bill.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, she was previously linked to<em> Fox News<\/em> anchor <strong>Jon Du Pre<\/strong> in 2022.\u00a0The outlet says Philip founded a craft beer delivery service in 2013, and previously worked at Melinda\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s company for nine years, from 1999-2008.<\/p>\n<h2>Does Bill Gates Have a Girlfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Per <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">PEOPLE<\/a><\/em>, Bill confirmed he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/bill-gates-girlfriend-5365171\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">dating<strong> Paula Hurd<\/strong><\/a> in February of 2023. The couple had previously stepped out together at the Laver Cup in September of 2022. Paula, a mother of two, was married to <strong>Mark Hurd<\/strong>, the former co-CEO of Oracle, for 30 years before his death in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/melinda-gates-boyfriend-5365230\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] View gallery Image Credit: FilmMagic Bill\u00a0and\u00a0Melinda Gates finalized their divorce in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
But four years on, that didn\u2019t stop either of the Gates\u2019s from moving on. Here\u2019s what to know about Melinda\u2019s current love interest.<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-4\">Melinda and Bill\u2019s split appears to have been at least partially informed by<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2021\/05\/17\/bill-gates-affair-cheating-melinda-divorce-microsoft-board\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"> an affair Bill publicly confirmed<\/a>, that happened two decades before their split. Still, she pushed back on any assumptions that had been <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/why-did-bill-and-melinda-gates-get-divorced-5365192\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">the sole reason<\/a>. \u201cI certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that,\u201d she told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/tag\/gayle-king\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><strong>Gayle King<\/strong><\/a> during a 2022 on-camera interview on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/melinda-french-gates-opens-divorce-journey-of-healing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">CBS Mornings. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-5\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t one moment or one specific thing that happened,\u201d Melinda explained. \u201cThere just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn\u2019t healthy, and I couldn\u2019t trust what we had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-6\">A source opened up about the painful split to<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/why-bill-melinda-gates-grew-apart-he-could-have-treated-melinda-better-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> PEOPLE<\/em><\/a> in a May 2021 report.\u00a0\u201cHe could have treated Melinda better,\u201d they said. \u201cHe\u2019s not a saint, but there isn\u2019t one thing that created the final split. It goes deeper than that. It\u2019s many years of differing views of the world, the foundation, and of life in general, and those things piling up. They are older and each personally looked at life and asked, \u2018Is there more out there than what I have?’\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-7\">Melinda divulged to <em>Fortune Magazine<\/em> in a 2021 interview that the COVID pandemic had helped her through the split. \u201cI had some reasons I just couldn\u2019t stay in that marriage anymore,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do. It\u2019s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Does Melinda Gates Have a Boyfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-8\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/30\/us-news\/melinda-french-gates-spotted-with-new-beau-philip-vaughn-in-ny\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>the New York Post<\/em><\/a>, Melinda is currently dating former Microsoft computer programmer <strong>Philip Vaughn<\/strong>. She\u2019s been seen out affectionately holding hands with the Seattle-based entrepreneur on multiple occasions. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14021919\/melinda-gates-new-boyfriend-philip-vaughn-microsoft-bill.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, she was previously linked to<em> Fox News<\/em> anchor <strong>Jon Du Pre<\/strong> in 2022.\u00a0The outlet says Philip founded a craft beer delivery service in 2013, and previously worked at Melinda\u2019s ex-husband\u2019s company for nine years, from 1999-2008.<\/p>\n<h2>Does Bill Gates Have a Girlfriend?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"content-paragraph-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Per <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/who-is-paula-hurd-bill-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\" rel=\"noopener\">PEOPLE<\/a><\/em>, Bill confirmed he\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/bill-gates-girlfriend-5365171\/\" data-analytics-trigger=\"article-body-link\">dating<strong> Paula Hurd<\/strong><\/a> in February of 2023. The couple had previously stepped out together at the Laver Cup in September of 2022. Paula, a mother of two, was married to <strong>Mark Hurd<\/strong>, the former co-CEO of Oracle, for 30 years before his death in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/feature\/melinda-gates-boyfriend-5365230\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] View gallery Image Credit: FilmMagic Bill\u00a0and\u00a0Melinda Gates finalized their divorce in August of 2021, but four years later, the split after 27 years of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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