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Bill Gates
jeffrey epstein
May 22, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Tried Blackmailing Bill Gates Over Affair Extortion schemes like this might help explain how Epstein kept billionaires in his orbit for so long.
By Matt Stieb
Melinda French Gates Calls Out Bill’s Ties to Epstein “I did not like that he had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein. I made that clear to him,” she said in a new interview about her divorce from Bill Gates.
By Mia Mercado
What’s Your Wedding Like When Your Parents Are Billionaires? Jennifer Gates, daughter of Melinda and Bill Gates, got married this weekend.
By Mia Mercado
Bill and Melinda Gates Are Officially Divorced It’s unclear how their billions will be split.
By Mia Mercado
philanthropy
May 27, 2021
Who Gets the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the Divorce? The pair are restructuring the charity to ensure its “long-term sustainability and stability” amid a rocky and high-profile split.
By Matt Stieb
What We Know About Bill Gates’s Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein In the wake of his divorce, questions about Gates’s relationship with the convicted sex-offender have resurfaced.
By Mia Mercado
The Dirt Piles on Bill Gates Following Divorce Announcement New reports detail how Gates allegedly pursued women who worked for him at Microsoft and his foundation — and deeper ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
By Matt Stieb
Bill and Melinda Gates Are Getting Divorced They announced the end of their 27-year marriage in a statement on Twitter.
By Olivia Evans
just asking questions
Sept. 14, 2020
Bill Gates on the Pandemic: ‘You Hope It Doesn’t Stretch Past 2022.’ The philanthropist shares his thoughts about COVID-19 vaccines, America’s failures, and when we can expect real global relief.
By David Wallace-Wells
just asking questions
Sept. 17, 2019
Bill Gates on What a Plan to Fight Climate Change Really Means “I have not seen anything that’s worthy of the word plan because a plan has to involve not just the U.S. doing something.”
By David Wallace-Wells
the epstein enigma
Sept. 11, 2019
Why Would MIT Need Jeffrey Epstein to Get Money From Bill Gates? MIT reportedly relied on Epstein, one of the world’s most toxic middlemen, to contact two famous philanthropists — which just doesn’t add up.
By Matt Stieb
Paul Allen Turned Microsoft Into a Colossus After convincing high-school friend Bill Gates to drop out of college and start a software company called Micro-Soft, Allen helped change the world.
By Jake Swearingen
late capitalism
Feb. 21, 2018
Bill Gates Has No Idea How Much Food Costs Your #mcm thinks Totino’s pizza rolls are $22.
By Gabriella Paiella
Jeff Bezos Is the Richest Person in the World Again He has $90 billion, which is a lot, according to economics.
By Brian Feldman
What Does Bill Gates Have to Live for Now That He’s Not the World’s Richest Man? Jeff Bezos has become the world’s richest man, as well as the world’s richest person who looks like a jacked J.K. Simmons.
By Brian Feldman
Oct. 31, 2016
By Brian Feldman
Clinton’s Initial VP List Included Bill Gates, Tim Cook, and Bernie Sanders WikiLeaks reveals that a democratic socialist and the “billionaire class” were both early veepstakes contenders.
By Eric Levitz
Gates: Sometimes FBI Should Access Private Data The ticking-time-bomb scenario comes to your phone.
By Samuel Lieberman
Bill Gates vs. Thomas Piketty The world’s richest man goes head-to-head with the world’s favorite socialist public intellectual.
By Annie Lowrey
Bill Gates Explains the Difference Between DOS and XP in This ‘Nathan for […] Nathan for You’s favorite Bill Gates impersonator made an appearance during last night’s episode, and Comedy Central just posted the above […]
By Megh Wright
Watch an Extended Scene of Bill Gates in Nathan Fielder’s ‘The Web’
From Tuesday’s episode of Nathan For You, here’s an extended scene from Nathan Fielder’s fake movie, The Web, starring an incredible Bill […]
By Bradford Evans
the most important people in the world
June 28, 2013
By Joe Coscarelli
contraception
Apr. 29, 2013
You Deserve a Better Condom Bill Gates for your pleasure.
By Kat Stoeffel
custom condoms
Mar. 26, 2013
By Delia Paunescu
Food Politics
Mar. 22, 2013
Bill Gates Wants You to Reconsider Your Stance on Fake Meat He’s funneling money into food research with a view toward developing better plant-based proteins that more people will want to eat.
By Jay Barmann
Mutant Crops
Feb. 14, 2013
By Sierra Tishgart
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Both Interviewed Important People Last […]
Comedy Central’s fake news duo each had a big important guest last night. Jon Stewart interviewed Al Gore, while Stephen Colbert talked to […]
By Bradford Evans
lifestyles of the rich and famous
Jan. 3, 2013
By Delia Paunescu
Middleboro Wants A Wegmans; Scientists Grow Super Broccoli Plus Bill Gates fights hunger and more, all in our morning news round-up.
By Kara Baskin
excellent things
Dec. 9, 2010
By Nitasha Tiku
hollywood upgrades
Oct. 4, 2010
Real-Life Geeks and the Hollywood Stars Who Play Them Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only techie to get the celluloid treatment.
By Nitasha Tiku
billionaires
Sept. 23, 2010
America’s Superrich Get Super-Richer Bill Gates is still the wealthiest of them all.
By Josh Duboff
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Convince Other Billionaires to Follow Suit Thirty-eight billionaires have signed on to give away half their wealth.
By Nitasha Tiku
last night on late night
May 20, 2010
Last Night on Late Night: Jerry Seinfeld Shows No Loyalty to Bill Gates Plus, Russell Brand attempts to replace President Obama as the anti-ambassador to Las Vegas, on our regular late-night roundup.
By Dorsey Shaw
obscene wealth
Mar. 10, 2010
Carlos Slim Helu Is the World’s Richest Man Bloomberg is the top New Yorker on the list, with a cool $18 billion fortune.
By Josh Duboff
gossipmonger
Jan. 26, 2010
By Katie Goldsmith
gossipmonger
Dec. 31, 2009
Jake Gyllenhaal Is Trying to Win Reese Witherspoon Back, With Vintage Dinnerware That would totally work for us. Then again, Jake giving us a Dixie cup would win us back.
By Mike Vilensky
gossipmonger
Dec. 28, 2009
By Mike Vilensky
a dating story
July 29, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
imagined conversations
May 20, 2009
What Goes On in a Secret Billionaires Meeting? Oprah, Bloomberg, Buffett, and more extremely wealthy people held a secret meeting earlier this month.
By Dan Amira
bright ideas
Feb. 13, 2009
By Jon Methven
company town
Aug. 21, 2008
Now We’ll Get to See Even More of the Naked Cowboy The scourge of Times Square is getting his own reality-TV show. Meanwhile, a Cadwalader partner sues over the mold in his Hamptons house, and the ‘Times’ thinks we care too much about people’s personal lives (can’t imagine why), and more, in our daily roundup of industry news.
white men with money
July 24, 2008
Bloomberg, Gates Mercifully Decide Against Ruling World Instead, they’ll put their vast wealth toward preventing cigarette deaths in developing countries.
gossipmonger
June 19, 2008
Was Movie Airbrushing Not Enough for the ‘Sex and the City’ Girls? Plus gossip on Warren Buffett, 50 Cent, and Anne Hathaway, in today’s column roundup.
white men with money
Feb. 1, 2008
Why Should Microsoft Try for First Place When It Can Buy Second? With this morning’s announcement that it had made a $44.6 billion offer to buy Yahoo, Microsoft continues a multi-year streak of indicating that it will settle for buying second place instead of battling its way to first. Can’t beat Google at its own game? Here’s an idea: Why not buy the company that’s literally choking on Google’s exhaust? No wonder Bill Gates decided to step back from the day-to-day in 2006. When you’ve ruled the world for a decade-plus, it’s little too much to constantly accept the silver medal.
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