Bill Gates was asking sensual questions to women candidates to work in his office

• Financial

According to the Wall Street Journal, Bill Gates allegedly asked sensual interview questions of female candidates for his office, regarding their private love life and erotic videos. The Wall Street Journal explains how some women would have been asked, by the agency that was supposed to recruit staff on behalf of Bill Gates, to have private information on a sensual background.

A spokeswoman for Gates denied the allegations, saying she has never heard similar questions asked: "These types of questions would be unacceptable and a violation of agreements made with the company." The selection was conducted in recent years by a consultancy firm called Concentric Advisors.

The questions were allegedly made to defuse possible blackmail of personnel destined to work with one of the most powerful people in the world. The questions were whether they had had affairs outside of marriage, what kind of erotic films they preferred or if they had taken cell phone pictures of them appearing without clothes, or if they had ever contracted any communicable disease.

We recall some time ago Bill Gates had admitted a mistake in his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, a millionaire who died in prison. According to some experts, the type of questions asked during the interviews could involve violations of federal employment laws, while they would be acceptable for high-level government security roles.

The second privacy questions were conducted to assess whether would-be employees might be vulnerable to blackmail. The Wall Street Journal was unable to determine whether any men were asked the same questions, but none who spoke to the paper said they received them.

The questions were allegedly made to defuse possible blackmail of personnel destined to work with one of the most powerful people in the world. Concentric has not denied the reconstruction made by the financial newspaper. Gates himself, however, has been attributed numerous extramarital affairs.