Divorce

Bill Gates spent a long weekend each year after marrying his wife at a cozy beach cottage in North Carolina with his old flame. When the billionaire Microsoft founder married Melinda French in 1994, he made certain the bizarre arrangement was included in the contract, he told Time magazine in a 1997 interview.

Former chancellor Carranza is living with an employee he hired for a lucrative position. Richard Carranza, the former New York City Schools Chancellor, has left his wife for a Houston administrator he brought to New York for a six-figure Department of Education position.