A new book alleges Bill Gates was like a ‘kid in a candy store’ with young, gorgeous Microsoft staffers, who were forbidden from being alone with him.

Anupreeta Das of the New York Times reports that Gates’ infidelity left his wife Melinda ‘seething for a long time.’

Melinda changed Bill’s security personnel because she thought they were ‘enabling’ him, and his calendar purportedly included unexplained blocks of time.

In 2019, Bill Gates’ link to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein broke up his marriage, according to the new book ‘Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World’.

Bill Gates’ new book reveals his connections with women, including the purported grounds for his divorce from wife Melinda, pictured in 2018.

Gates’ ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad wanted to marry him, but he was reportedly more interested in reading biographies during a romantic retreat.

Before marrying Melinda, Gates spent a romantic weekend at her cottage reading a biography of Henry Ford, which cost him his chance to marry a computer entrepreneur.

The book alleges that Anne Winblad, an early female computer entrepreneur, tried to court the Microsoft founder but failed.

Winblad invited Gates to her Outer Banks vacation home with two friends and their two-year-old daughter to ‘plant the marriage seed’.

Das’ book says Gates read Henry Ford’s biography all weekend, only taking breaks to ride a gun buggy.

Nevertheless, Gates convinced his wife Melinda French Gates to let him stay at that cottage in Winblad alone one weekend a year.

Das says Gates had inappropriate contact with women multiple times, including the strange arrangement.

In the book, Melinda Gates was inspired to divorce her husband after his affair with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was revealed.

Melinda alleges Bill cheated on her several times and was ‘like a kid in a candy store’ with young ladies at Microsoft, so young interns were forbidden from being alone with him.

Bill believes his links to Epstein were philanthropic, but Melinda began consulting lawyers about splitting their $150 billion in 2019.

In 2021, she filed for divorce, calling her 27-year marriage and three children ‘irretrievably broken’.

The Gates did not sign a prenup, but they did sign a separation agreement that left Melinda with nearly $6 billion.

In 1987, Melinda, a product manager at Microsoft, met Bill, her boss.

They were engaged in 1993 and married in Hawaii in 1994.

According to the book, Winblad planned to ‘settle down and establish a family’ before becoming Mrs. Gates.

They met in 1984 and dated for three years. Winblad was Bills’ intellectual equal, discussing bioengineering and physics on vacation.

Gates dated philanthropist Paula Hurd, widow of former Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, after his divorce.

In the days before broadband internet, they would watch movies together in various places by synching and calling later.

One of Silicon Valley’s earliest female computer entrepreneurs and an early Microsoft investor, Winblad planned for a lifetime cooperation.

Das writes:’She invited Lotus creator Mitch Kapor, his then-wife, and their two-year-old baby to her house in the Outer Banks in North Carolina to plant the marriage seed in Gates’ head and introduce him to the delights of family life.

Gates spent the weekend reading a biography of Henry Ford, but he took breaks to ride a dune buggy.

Winblad and Bill were so close that he spent one weekend with her alone each year following his wedding.

He asked Melinda for her blessing, which she appears to have given, an early surrender to Bill’s contacts with women that Das says would make her increasingly unhappy.

Das said Melinda filed for divorce after ‘seething for a long time’ about their unequal marriage.

She was also ‘seething’ over his many infidelities and unhappy about being disrespected at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.