Bill Gates Attends Charles Simonyi's Wedding

The Local:

Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates is in Gothenburg this weekend to attend the wedding of billionaire Charles Simonyi and Swedish socialite Lisa Persdotter.

Gates arrived in Sweden on Friday in time for the start of the three day wedding celebrations for old friend and Microsoft colleague Charles Simonyi (60) and his 28-year-old bride-to-be Lisa Persdotter.

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Comments

[Pam4Waters]

Trophy wife weddings are this season must.

[newpotusplease]

here is a photo of the lovely couple:

http://www.dlisted.com/node/29432

[Omidal]

That is half his age. Wow. A sugar Daddy.

[Irish55]

WHO?

[AlligatorShuz]

Well, at least she didn't marry a broke ole man who drew a pension from GM.....

[BowlingForRevenge]

It saddens me that he dated Martha Stewart for 15 years and then 6 mos after they break up he's engaged to someone half their age and 9 mos later he's married to her.
I guess he decided he needs an heir.
I'm sure he will be happy and I'm sure the patter of little feet will be hard at the Simonyi house in less than a year.

[BushBites]

And poor Cindy McCain has to bankroll her Old Man herself.

[AlligatorShuz]

Now you are funny..LOL

[Aabby]

LOL

[ILikeH00ters]

I hear someone saying "Gold Digger".

[jeffrow]

This guy is brilliant. Not your run of the mill software programmer. In his prime he was probably one of the top 3 or 4 minds in his field. There are some interesting stories about massive amount of scope he could retain and catalog in his mind.

[Bitsko]

Somebody got paid to write this nothing story? I should get paid for reading the summary.

[nomadicexpat]

get your facts straight before posting, she comes from a rich family. ever thing she likes older guys?

Persdotter is the daughter of a Swedish millionaire and has studied in Edinburgh and New York. She is currently employed as an investment manager.
Lisa Persdotter and Simonyi have apparently known each other for many years with their families own neighbouring properties in playground for the rich and famous in St.Tropez.

[iv64]

Either way I have never heard of a 28 year old marrying a poor 60 year old man. There is definitely a problem there if only that she has a father complex.

[Takae]

I have a friend who's 23 and her husband of one year is 54. She's really tired of people accusing her of having a father complex, being a gold digger, being naive (for not realizing she'll become a widow sooner than expected; she's perfectly aware), being asexual (this from younger guys), being taken advantage of, and blah blah. She gets it all the time. I feel bad for her because all these criticisms and accusations are affecting their marriage. :/

[satyriasis]

I'm pretty sure this billionaire made his bride to be sign a prenuptial agreement....

[curiousasheck]

Prenuptial? I think at this level it's more along the lines of an Employment Termination Agreement.

[AlligatorShuz]

She married him for his money.

[curiousasheck]

How could that be? Surely she's marrying him because she's in love with this hot "young at heart" guy. (Right) And how do you do a lifetime plan together when your husband is old enough to be your father and has more days behind him then ahead of him?

[BushBites]

Ya think?

[curiousasheck]

60 year old guy marrying a 28 year old girl.

I suppose the next stage of our de-evloution is Wealthy Barons in their 80's marrying 16 year olds.