Bill Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, is dating Paula Kalupa, the widow of former Oracle CEO Mark Hurd who died in 2019. The Daily Mail reported the story citing a friend of the rumored couple who confirmed that they are ‘inseparable’.

“They’ve been together over a year, and she’s always described as a ‘mystery woman,’ but it’s no mystery to their inner circle that they’re in a romantic relationship,” the friend added.

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Who is Paula Hurd?

Paula Kalupa is an American businesswoman and consultant who works as an event planner. She was married to Mark Hurd, the former CEO of Oracle for 30 years. With him, Kalupa has two daughters: Kathryn and Kelly.

When Paula married her late Mark Hurd, who spent 25 years moving up the ranks at the corporation under the name Kalupa, she was an executive at NCR.

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While visiting Australia last month, Paula and Bill were seen enjoying the Men’s Singles Final at the Australian Open in Melbourne together. In Sydney, where the billionaire met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the two also went. Gates and Hurd took advantage of the chance to take a romantic stroll through the city, pausing to take in the expansive views of the harbor and visit the renowned Opera House.

They had last been spotted together watching the 2022 Laver Cup at the O2 Arena in London in September, before their date at the Australian Open in January.

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The devoted sports fans were also captured on camera at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, in October 2021, but they were separated by a few rows at the time.