Bill Gates, Girlfriend Paula Hurd Spotted At Bezos’s Engagement Party

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (IANS) – Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez hosted another engagement party on the billionaire’s $500 million super yacht in Italy. 

Among those who attended the star-studded affair were Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his rumored girlfriend, Paula Hurd, reports Page Six. 

Gates, 67, and Hurd, 61, were photographed sitting in the yacht and chatting with other guests. 

American entrepreneur Wendi Murdoch, the ex-wife of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, was among the VIP guests at the lavish party, according to the report. 

In May, Bezos, 59, and Sanchez, 53, got engaged, and shortly after they arrived in Cannes, south of France, on the superyacht “Koru”. 

They started dating in 2018 and reportedly went public with their relationship after the Amazon billionaire divorced MacKenzie Scott in 2019. 

Meanwhile, a representative for Gates has said that he is not engaged to his rumored girlfriend Hurd. Rumors of engagement recently occurred after Hurd was photographed wearing a piece of jewelry on her ring finger. According to a spokesperson for the Microsoft co-founder, Hurd has had the ring for a long time, and it does not represent an engagement. 

The relationship became public in February, following Gates’ divorce from Melinda French Gates in August 2021. Gates and Melinda have three grown children. 

Hurd is the widow of late Oracle CEO Mark Hurd and the one-time boss of Hewlett-Packard, who died in 2019. The couple had two daughters, Kathryn, and Kelly, as per the report.