Last week, we reported that Bill and Melinda Gates shocked the world when they announced that they are divorcing after 27 years of marriage. This divorce has since taken a truly shocking turn, as Bill has been accused of pursuing several women in his office during his marriage to Melinda.

The New York Times reported on two of the instances, with current and former employees saying that each of the situations created an uncomfortable work environment. One of the instances involved Bill emailing a female Microsoft employee in 2006, asking her out to dinner.

“If this makes you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened,” Bill allegedly wrote in an email to the employee.

The Times reported that the woman was indeed uncomfortable, and she chose to pretend he had not asked her out.

A few years later, Bill allegedly asked out another woman who worked for his philanthropic foundation. The woman told the publication that this made her uncomfortable, and she just laughed in response to avoid having to give a real answer.

The Wall Street Journal also revealed that Microsoft board members had decided that Bill needed to step down from the board last year as they launched an investigation into his alleged affair with a female Microsoft employee. Bill chose to resign before the probe was finished, and a spokeswoman for him said that the affair ended nearly two decades ago. She also claimed that his decision to step down had nothing to do with the investigation.

Microsoft board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate. @WSJ scoop: https://t.co/1dP8Qz6UHp

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) May 16, 2021

It is not clear at this time if Melina was uncomfortable with her husband’s alleged behavior at the office. What is known, however, is that she was uncomfortable with Bill’s relationship with the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

We previously reported that Bill and Epstein met dozens of times at the latter’s New York City townhouse beginning in 2011 and lasting through 2014. The insider claimed that Bill’s visits to Epstein’s home were to escape his unhappy marriage, and that the two men “were very close.”

Bill allegedly told Epstein that his marriage was “toxic,” and both men found this funny. Melinda was reportedly “furious” about her husband’s relationship with Epstein after they both visited his townhouse in September of 2013. This meeting proved to be a turning point in Bill and Epstein’s relationship, as Melinda made it clear that she was uncomfortable around the sex offender and wanted nothing to do with him.

Bill and Melinda announced their divorce last week, saying that their marriage is “irretrievably broken.”

“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” they said in a statement. “Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives.”

“We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives,” their statement concluded. “We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.”