Melinda who?! Bill Gates takes his new girlfriend Paula Hurd to Sun Valley ‘summer camp for billionaires’

Bill Gates has appeared at the ‘billionaire summer camp’ he used to take Melinda to with his new girlfriend.

The Microsoft founder was seen with Paula Hurd at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho on Wednesday.

The software mogul walked across campus with a file under his arm that had Mark Zuckerberg’s name on it.

Later in the evening he was seen enjoying a meal with her and two friends as they looked at photos from the entire day.

It comes five months after DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Gates, 67, was dating Hurd, 60, after they appeared together at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Later in the evening, he was seen enjoying a meal with her and two friends as they looked at photos from the entire day.

And it marks almost two years since the philanthropist and Melinda divorced after 27 years of marriage.

The images showed Gates and Hurd smiling as they strolled through the Sun Valley Conference on Wednesday afternoon.

The billionaire held hands with his new girlfriend as she tried to remove her coat to enjoy the Idaho sunshine.

He had a yellow folder under his arm with the title: ‘Sun Valley. July 12-14, 2023.’

Some of the documents seemed to stick out of the file, with notes visible reading “ascending words”, “step clock” and “change of base”.

Another page of notes appeared to have a list of speakers, with ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ clearly among them.

Also seen at the day’s event was Michael Larson, who is the chief investment officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The software mogul walked across campus with a file under his arm that had Mark Zuckerberg’s name on it.

Some of the documents seemed to stick out of the file, with notes visible reading “ascending words”, “step clock” and “change of base”.

Another page of notes appeared to have a list of speakers, with ‘Mark Zuckerberg’ clearly among them.

Also seen at the day’s event was Michael Larson, who is the chief investment officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In the evening, Gates and Hurd were seen having dinner with two friends as the sun was beginning to set.

Hurd was seen reviewing footage on his cell phone and showing it to his guests, who smiled and nodded.

Meanwhile, Gates appeared to be talking about business, with the friend looking serious and shaking her head as she spoke.

Everyone seemed to be drinking ice cold lemon water while hanging out with light music playing in the background.

Another clip showed the couple talking to a waitress who came to check on them, where they appeared to tell her they weren’t ordering food.

Hurd is the widow of former Oracle Co-CEO and Chairman Mark Hurd, who died at the age of 62 in 2019 after a battle with cancer.

Her late husband, who spent most of his career at technology company NCR and then Hewlett-Packard before joining Oracle in 2010, had an estimated net worth of $500 million at the time of his death.

Paula is the widow of former Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd (left), who died in 2019 after a battle with cancer. Bill and Melinda divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage

Bill Gates, 67, has found a loving match with fellow tennis fan and former tech executive Paula Hurd, 60. “They are inseparable,” a friend tells DailyMail.com. The look of love was obvious at the WTA semifinal match in Indian Wells, California this past March.

Putting their differences aside: The exes Bill and Melinda Gates reunited to celebrate their daughter Jennifer’s graduation from Columbia University

Jennifer, 27, received her master’s degree in public health this week, and her billionaire parents stood by her to commemorate the feat.

It comes after Gates and his ex gave a rare show of unity when they reunited to celebrate their daughter Jennifer’s graduation from Columbia University.

Jennifer, 27, received her master’s degree in public health this week and her billionaire parents rallied to support her, two years after they split.

The graduation ceremony is one of the few times they have been seen together since their divorce was announced.

In February this year, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Gates and Hurd were dating.

The pair were spotted watching the men’s singles final at the Australian Open in Melbourne together during a trip Down Under, and they also traveled to Sydney, where the billionaire met Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Gates and Hurd took the opportunity to take a romantic walk through the city while stopping to admire panoramic views of the harbor and visit the famous Opera House.

Photos of the two observing the sights were released at the time, but Hurd had not been identified.

Bill Gates had an affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova around 2010 and Jeffrey Epstein tried to extort money from him for the relationship. The revelations add to a list of controversies in Gates’ love life

Mila Antonova, who had an affair with Gates around 2010, showed a photo of them together during a presentation about their passion for bridge.

Before Hurd, Gates had a very checkered love life, from an “inappropriate” relationship with a staffer that sparked a sexual harassment investigation at Microsoft to claims that Jeffrey Epstein tried to “extort” him for an affair with a gamer. russian bridge.

The revelation about Gates’ affair with Russian bridge player Mila Antonova, and Eptein’s attempts to use it against the Microsoft billionaire, emerged in May.

Gates, an avowed bridge fan, met Antonova around 2010, when she was 20 and he was some three decades her senior.

The couple played bridge together as Antonova had ambitions to launch an online bridge school.

Three years later, in 2013, he met Epstein thanks to Gates’ scientific advisor Boris Nikolic.

Antonova sought financial backing from Epstein for the bridge project, but he did not invest.

Antonova said in 2010 that she “didn’t beat” Gates at bridge, but “tried to kick him with her leg”.

While the extent of their relationship is unclear, Gates’ spokeswoman acknowledged that “Epstein unsuccessfully attempted to take advantage of a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates.”

A single image of Gates with Antonova has surfaced amid reports of their relationship.

Gates, typically dressed casually in a blue jacket and polo shirt, has one arm of the glamorous young Russian woman, who is wearing a dress and her hair is up in a band.

Epstein reportedly found out about the affair and alluded to it in an email to Gates in 2017, hinting that he might expose it.

The disgraced financier wanted Gates to invest in a multimillion-dollar charity fund and sent the email while trying to secure his endorsement.

Gates’ affair with a Microsoft employee in 2000 came to light two decades later, after the woman reported it to the company’s board of directors and an investigation was launched.

Gates had stepped down as CEO in 2000, but remained a member of the board. He abruptly resigned from the board in 2020 while the investigation into the matter, which was launched in 2019, was still ongoing.

Her spokeswoman confirmed the affair but said her departure was not related to it.

Bill and Melinda Gates in 2018, three years before they announced their separation

The couple have three children together: Jennifer, 27, Rory, 23, and Phoebe, 20.

The woman involved in the ‘intimate relationship’ has never been identified.

It arose a few weeks after Bill and Melinda Gates made the shocking announcement of their separation in May 2021 and the divorce was sealed in August of that year.

His initial announcement was followed by a flurry of reports about Gates’ approaches to Microsoft employees, details of his 2000 affair and scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein.

Melinda has since detailed the separation “incredibly painful” but said she “just couldn’t stay in that marriage anymore.”

But she has insisted that Gates’ affair had nothing to do with the divorce.