Bill Gates attends Sun Valley with girlfriend Paula Hurd who's double of his ex-wife Melinda, as Epstein-linked Microsoft boss is joined by Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos

Bill Gates was pictured pinch his woman Paula Hurd astatine this year's alleged billionaire's summertime campy successful Sun Valley, Idaho.

The Microsoft founder, 68, was seen connected Thursday stepping pinch Hurd, who is nan widow of Oracle's CEO and bears a striking resemblance to Gate's ex-wife Melinda.

Gates and Hurd, 60, were joined by chap powerfulness mates Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, who were sporting matching denim ensembles arsenic they rode successful a play cart.

Best friends Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King were besides seen astatine nan billionaire's conference, stepping alongside Van Jones.

This years star-studded impermanent database includes New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Disney leader Bob Iger, OpenAI leader Sam Altman and galore more.

DailyMail.com exclusively revealed past twelvemonth that Gates had recovered emotion again 2 years aft his divorcement from his woman of 27 years Melinda.

Hurd is nan widow of erstwhile Oracle co-CEO and president Mark Hurd, who died astatine nan property of 62 successful 2019 aft a reported conflict pinch cancer.

Once a tech executive herself, Hurd is now an arena planner and organizer, and philanthropist. 

Gates' ex-wife, and mother to their 3 children, antecedently opened up astir her 'unbelievably painful' divorcement and explained that she 'just couldn't enactment successful that matrimony anymore'.

Melinda French Gates told Fortune mag successful October that nan Covid-19 pandemic helped springiness her nan 'privacy to do what she needed to do.' She besides said successful 2021 that her husband's matter pinch a Microsoft worker successful 2000 had surgery nan 'trust' successful their marriage.

Intermixed pinch Gates' extramarital liaisons is scrutiny astir his narration pinch Epstein, nan pedophile financier who took his ain life successful 2019 while jailed connected charges of activity trafficking minors. Gates insists nan brace ne'er had 'any business narration aliases friendship' and their meetings were solely to talk philanthropic ventures. 

But Melinda said her ex-husband's closeness to nan predator put sizeable strain connected nan marriage.  

The Gates' divorcement colony is America's second-most costly ever aft Bezos' $38.3billion divided pinch ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos.

Bezos'  and his caller emotion Sanchez was seen arriving astatine nan convention Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Sanchez, known for her revealing outfits, sported a caller hairdo - a sleek bob - and stunned successful a knitted skirt and sweater pinch a pinkish handbag and large shades. 

Meanwhile Cook was pictured flashing a bid motion wearing a bluish polo, achromatic pants and of people an Apple watch. 

The yearly Allen & Co summertime convention successful Sun Valley brings together manufacture titans from crossed nan planet. 

Wendi Murdoch, ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch who sewage joined for nan 5th clip successful June, was spotting arriving astatine nan edifice successful a Dior shirt, brownish pants, sunglasses and a hat.

Other media titans successful attendance are Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, Heart CEO Steven Swartz, Yahoo leader Jim Lanzone, Michael Bloomberg and Sheryl Sandberg and YouTube leader Neal Mohan.

Jared Kushner's relative Josh and his supermodel woman Karlie Kloss were besides seen astatine nan billionaire's retreat Thursday, arsenic were Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey and designer Diane von Furstenberg pinch her husband Barry Diller, Chairperson of IAC.

The summit’s schedule and speech topics are kept apical concealed to let nan one-percenters immoderate privateness arsenic they rotation astir nan resort, gossiping astir manufacture and, astatine times, sealing multibillion-dollar deals.

The summit’s schedule and speech topics are kept apical concealed to let nan one-percenters immoderate privateness arsenic they rotation astir nan resort, gossiping astir manufacture and, astatine times, sealing multibillion-dollar deals.