I am about two degrees of separation from Bill Gates. I have friends that have children that attended the same schools here in the Seattle area and other friends that worked with Bill back in the early times at MSFT. None of this surprises any of them. Nothing. He is a little tyrant with an infantile sense of righteousness. He was quite the womanizer back in the day. Not sure the attraction, except the huge amounts of money. I don't think he ever changed his stripes from what I hear. Melinda apparently was hanging on to get their son into college and now that's done, time to leave.