Microsoft investigated Bill Gates’ ‘intimate relationship’ with employee before he quit: Report

According to a report published in The Wall Street Journal, board members at Microsoft investigated Bill Gates’ alleged romantic relationship with a Microsoft employee before Gates stepped down in 2020.

Board members at Microsoft Corp. made a decision in 2020 that it wasn’t appropriate for its co-founder Bill Gates to continue sitting on its board as they investigated the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Citing unnamed sources, The Journal reported online Sunday that board members looking into the matter hired a law firm in late 2019 to conduct an investigation after a Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter that she had a sexual relationship with Gates over several years. The Journal reported that Gates resigned before the board’s investigation was finished, citing another person familiar with the matter.