Bill Gates and Girlfriend Paula Hurd Attend Indian Wells Open: Photo

Bill Gates and his girlfriend, Paula Hurd, were in the stands last week as the BNP Paribas Open continued in California.

The billionaire tech mogul and philanthropist and Hurd, the widow of Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, attended the second day of the famed tennis tournament, also known as the Indian Wells Open. The pair were low-key attendees — he in a ball cap while she wore dark sunglasses.

Gates, 69, recently said that outings at sports events are one of the ways the couple enjoys spending time together.

“We’re having fun,” he said on the Today show last month. “Going to the Olympics and lots of great things.” 

He and Hurd were first publicly linked in 2023 and have become increasingly public with their relationship, at Jeff Bezos’ engagement party, on the red carpet and more. He told Today that she was his “serious girlfriend.”

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Hurd also joined Gates during a stop on his book tour this year, promoting the first of three memoirs, Source Code, in which she got a special mention alongside the three kids he shares with ex-wife Melinda French Gates.

“Early readers of the manuscript included Paula Hurd, Marc St. John, and Sheila Gulati,” Gates wrote in the acknowledgments of the book. “The close read from dear and trusted friends provided much-needed thoughtful and insightful feedback at critical stages in the writing.”