Melinda Gates appears hand in hand with her new companion Philip Vaughn in New York

Melinda Gates appears hand in hand with her new companion Philip Vaughn in New York
Melinda Gates appears hand in hand with her new companion Philip Vaughn in New York

Divorced from Bill Gates since 2021, the businesswoman fell under the spell of another businessman, revealed Page SixWednesday October 30.

Divorced from Bill Gates since 2021, she once dated Jon Du Pre, former correspondent for Fox News. It was even rumored that the couple was engaged. A rumor denied by Melinda Gates' spokesperson in the columns of Page Six . “Melinda is not engaged and is no longer in a relationship with Jon Du Pre,” he declared in April. Six months later, however, the businesswoman found love again with entrepreneur Philip Vaughn.

Both were immortalized hand in hand in New York on the morning of Wednesday October 30. Photos revealed exclusively by Page Six . We see the businessman getting out of a helicopter, followed by the 60-year-old philanthropist. Both of them then move forward, hand in hand, towards a 4×4. The same evening, Melinda Gates and Philip Vaughn also had dinner together at the Le Bernardin restaurant in Manhattan, the tabloid revealed.

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Nine years at Microsoft

While it is unknown how the couple met, Philip Vaughn's Linkedin profile indicates that he worked for nine years (from 1999 to 2008) for Microsoft, the company co-founded by Bill Gates. In 2011, Philip Vaughn also created his own company, Tavour, a craft beer delivery service. For his part, Bill Gates, to whom Melinda remained married from 1994 to 2021, and gave birth to three children – Jennifer, 28, Phoebe, 22, and Rory, 25 – is in a relationship with Paula Hurd, the widow of the former CEO of Oracle, for almost two years.

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