Tasteful Friends: See inside Bill Gates’ secret love nest with gal pal Ann Winblad

I read she is now married to Kevin Kline's brother.

In that pic what is that cow patty on his head? Is he wearing fake hair now?

This whole thing reeks of 'mid-life crisis'. Only unlike Bezos, he doesn't realize that was 15 years ago.

It's fucking hideous.

With his money he couldn't hook her/them up with something a: nicer and b: more private?

I read about this arrangement years ago and thought how odd but, hey, if I was married to a gazillionaire, I could loan him out for a weekend a year.

She's no Phoebe Cates.

Why is there plywood on all the walls? It's ghastly in every way.

My guess is he saw this movie and his aspie brain fixated on the concept.

How Dare Him!

If you’re a billionaire there’s no such thing as a secret getaway. They need room for security. You know he’s fully staffed.

I didn't say secret, I said private. All of the houses are on top of each other. It's just gross

That really is plywood, isn't it? WTF?

So has this been a Charles-Camilla kind of thing? Obviously Melinda is no Diana but did she have a James Hewitt?

The photo of the side piece somehow fits.

The opposite of glamour, luxury, charm or anything appealing. Boggles the mind. Maybe it's a testament to their love that they didn't notice how awful their surroundings were.

THAT's the other woman he's divorcing for? Yuck!

No, R14. That's his old gf who he still gets one weekend a year with.

You can't be carefree and scream when you're fucking in a place like that, the whole street will hear you.

He's a love rat with a love nest! Next think you know he'll be showing off his pert derriere! Or-- heaven forbid-- flaunting his bikini body!

They view quadratic equations as foreplay building building building to...

Star Trek chess - involving the entire cast of Star Trek Voyager standing on a checkerboard of plywood. LeVar Burton will shoot “Jeopardy” around that Summer weekend.

The blue metal folding chairs are a unique touch for sure.

The house itself is nice, just the plywood paneling is horrible. At least he didn't cheat on her with some bimbo 35 years younger.

Non story, relationships end sometimes.

Bill owns time-share rights to Patty Duke’s corpse and uses her as a king; she doesn’t move easily.

Curious how each thread has people actively trying to discourage gossip on a gossip board. Makes me wonder if something more juicy is coming. Gates must not work with Sunshine Sachs, they would be screeching that we are all racists or fat. PR tactics are woefully ineffective on DL and actually encourage more speculation.

They don't have human sex that special weekend once a year! For Gates Pon Farr, they do a Vulcan mindmeld, order Pizzahut pizza to be delivered and drink a case of Volt cola.

WTF is Sunshine Sachs?

Link to "love nest"

r24 DON'T ENGAGE! It brings out the MM loons.

Oops, sorry, link was for the other thread

So they were fucking once a year even though she's older than he is, they're both married, and Gates looks like he hasn't had a sexual impulse his entire life?

Honestly r28 maybe there wasn't any sex. Maybe they just talked. He's autistic and many of them have very low sex drives.

R29 but OP said there was a lot of painful wood. Is Gates hung?

They could have gotten cheap folding WOODEN chairs at an Ikea. Wouldn't folding metal chairs rust in a beach house? Shades of a church basement, lol.

[quote] "Shockwaves were sent around the world when the most powerful philanthropic couple, Bill and Melinda Gates, announced they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage."

I don't recall any shockwaves. Dramatic much, NY Post?

Eeek, man.

She looks like Napoleon Dynamite's girlfriend, just a little older

Knotty PINE?!?

The folding metal chairs bring a lovely touch of distraction to the at times overwhelming wood panels in the house.

So this is like Prince Charles/Camilla deal. So why didn’t he just marry this chick to begin with?

I can’t understand why you wouldn’t throw some paint on those walls. Cheap fix that would make the place look 1000 times better.

Knotty PLYWOOD r35

I spent 2 summers at the same place. Different cottage. Totally agree with the paint idea. It looks unfinished. Anyway, it was boring, boring, boring with absolutely nothing to do but drink. My former spouse always said "its 5 o'clock somewhere". God, he was a wit (not). Now - why would Melinda Gates agree to a deal whereby hubby has an annual vacay with another woman. My hypothesis - he is a lousy lay and she really didn't care. Plus she knew how fabulously rich he was.

She's still married to Kevin Kline's brother Alex apparently.

What a putz.

Why didn’t he just marry her ? Did he expect Melinda to pay dues for marrying into his billions or something ?

Very ugly & underwhelming.

That interior is awful. Why no sheetrock? Maybe the owners got tired of redoing it after hurricanes? Everything is so brown and ugly wood. The house isn't bad, it just needs the interior redone badly.

So that’s the other woman. I was wondering. Melinda is far more attractive even at her age. She’s real.

r45 You had me until "The house isn't bad". It is. We've had painful, ghastly, and horrific as just some of the descriptors, and that still doesn't touch just how fucked up this mess is. It screams slightly upscale FEMA shelter, post recent hurricane.

The Jersey Shore beach house/fuck nest was nicer than this.

It has been put together by two people on the spectrum. It has a TOTAL lack of design and attention to materiality. In that way, I find it utility extremely relaxing and quiet wonderful. The folding metal chairs are la pièce de résistance

Paint would not make that plywood look better.

It's ugly and depressing-looking. The only part that looks nice is the private walkway to the private gazebo.

However, there are neighbors pretty closeby. Doesn't seem that private to me.

It's like discovering that Mr. Rogers with his cardigans and wife of 75 years had a sidepiece in the form of a middle-aged and looks it blonde waitress at the iHop, and their love nest was an unrenovated basement apartment with a Pittsbugh Potty in the middle

Yuck. Every element and player.

I guess every billionaire has a little Grey Gardens in them, deep down.

The dressing him like Mr. Rogers was a stroke of PR genius and helped deflect from what is described as a fairly unpleasant man. He also received extensive media training and no longer rocks back and forth. It was money well spent.