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Surely Bill Gates hires big burly men who can enforce his personal space. I find it hard to believe that Bill Gates could earnestly be the victim of such hound
by liability 7y ago
Surely Bill Gates hires big burly men who can enforce his personal space. I find it hard to believe that Bill Gates could earnestly be the victim of such hounding for more than a brief moment.
- tzs 7y agoGates is sometimes surprisingly accessible. Some lawyers I know were in Seattle to take depositions for a big lawsuit they were on. They went to dinner at a restaurant, and then went out to get a cab back to their hotel. A bunch of other people were leaving at the same time, and people going in the same direction were agreeing to share cabs so people would not have to wait as long. They were about to get in to the cab with one of the other diners who was going in the same direction and agreed to share, when they realized that other diner was Bill Gates. Since Microsoft was the defendant in the lawsuit they were taking depositions for, and they were lawyers for the plaintiff, and were in the midst of a fight with Microsoft's lawyers over whether or not they could depose Gates, they realized sharing a cab with Gates was probably not a good idea, so waited for the next cab and let someone else share Gates' cab.
- adrian_mrd 7y agoNot sure if that illustrates that Gates was accessible or that it further illustrates the point that the super-rich (including their entourage of lawyers) travel in small, connected circles.
- liability 7y agoThat Epstein could get himself into Gates' personal space once is something I explicitly accounted for. What I continue to sincerely doubt is that he could do it twice. For the first time, Gates' default allow policy would allow him to get close. But after Bill Gates has told his security team "this guy is a pedo freak, never let him approach me again", would that not be the end of it?