It looks like Bill Gates, 67, has found love again.
He was recently photographed in the company of 60-year-old Paula Hurd, who according to Dailymail it's his new girlfriend.
Hurd is the widow of former Oracle co-founder and president Mark Hurd, who died at the age of 62 in 2019 after a battle with cancer.
"They are inseparable," a friend of the couple tells DailyMail.com.
"They've been together for over a year and she's always been described as a 'mystery woman,' but it's no mystery to their inner circle that they're in a romantic relationship," the source said.
Once a tech executive herself, Hurd is now an event planner and organizer and philanthropist.
Her late husband, who spent most of his career at technology company NCR and later Hewlett-Packard before joining Oracle in 2010, had a net worth of $500 million. (465 million euros) at the time of his death.
And it's no surprise that the paths of the Microsoft founder and Oracle executive - both prominent Silicon Valley figures - and his wife had crossed over the years.
The pair also traveled to Sydney where the billionaire met Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Gates and Hurd took the opportunity to take a romantic stroll through the city while stopping to admire panoramic views of the harbor and view the famous Opera House.
Photos of the two taking the shots were released at the time, but Hurd was not identified.
It is likely that the couple met through their shared love of tennis.
Before their meeting at the Australian Open in January, they were last seen watching the 2022 Laver Cup together at The O2 Arena in London in September.
The avid sports fans were also photographed at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California back in October 2021, however, they were seated a few rows apart at the time.
Paula, whose maiden name is Kalupa, was working as an executive at NCR in 1990 when she married her late husband, who spent 25 years building his company.
The couple, who lived in San Mateo County, had two daughters, Kathryn and Kelly.
The Hurds were longtime donors to Mark's Baylor University, where they contributed a lead gift to launch its $1.1 billion (one billion euro) philanthropic campaign in 2018.
Despite earning her marketing degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, Paula joined her husband in making major contributions to Baylor, such as supporting the university's national championship tennis program.
And just last year it continued their tradition by launching a new initiative awarding $100,000 (€93) in grants to aspiring young players at the BNP Paribas Open.
The program was announced on March 14, and just four days later, Paula and Bill would be photographed together watching the Women's Tennis Association semifinal match at Indian Wells.
A few days after their visit to Australia, Gates admitted in an interview that he was open to dating again after the divorce.
When asked if he would like to find love again in a BBC interview during his visit to Kenya last week, he replied: "Of course, I'm not a robot."
His blossoming romance with Hurd comes two years after Gates split from his wife Melinda French Gates in 2021 after 34 years together and 27 years of marriage.
Melinda said in an interview in 2021 that her husband's affair with a Microsoft employee in 2000 had broken the 'trust' in their marriage.
She described how she cried on the floor as her marriage fell apart, never thinking the relationship would end in divorce.
The couple's divorce settlement is the second most expensive in America after Jeff Bezos' $38.3 billion (€35.6 million) split with ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos. /Telegraph/
