It looks like Bill Gates, 67, has found a love match with 60-year-old fellow tennis buff Paula Hurd, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
Hurd is the widow of former Oracle co-CEO and president Mark Hurd, who died at the age of 62 in 2019 after a reported battle with cancer. 
'They're inseparable,' a friend of the couple tells DailyMail.com. 
'They've been together over a year and she's always described as a "mystery woman," but it's no mystery to their inner circle that they're in a romantic relationship.'
Once a tech executive herself, Hurd is now an event planner and eVdeN eve nAkliYat organizer, and philanthropist. 





Bill and Paula were most recently seen sitting front row at the Men's Singles Final at the Australian Open in Melbourne during their trip Down Under last month 


















Hurd and her late husband (top row far left) were frequent spectators at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, where Bill Gates (bottom row, far right next to John McEnroe) had also been spotted in the crowd, not too far from the couple, in 2015 






During their Australian visit in January, the two were also seen taking a romantic stroll around Sydney, stopping to take in views of the Harbor Bridge and famed Opera House 

It's likely the couple may have bonded over their love of tennis.
Before their date at the Australian Open in January, they had last been 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 as far back as October 2021, however, they had been sitting a few rows away from each other at the time. 
Paula, whose maiden name is Kalupa, was working as an NCR executive in 1990 when she married her late husband, who spent 25 years climbing up the ranks at the company.
The couple, who were based in San Mateo County, shared two daughters, Kathryn and Kelly. 
The Hurds were longtime donors to Mark's alma mater Baylor University where they contributed a lead gift to kick off its $1.1billion philanthropic campaign in 2018. 
The generous donation helped fund a brand new $60million welcome center named after the couple is set to open on campus later this year. 











They were seen together again months earlier in March when Gates was snapped laughing as he chatted with Paula at the BNP Paribas Open 












Paula, whose maiden name is Kalupa, was working as an NCR executive in 1990 when she married her late husband, who spent 25 years at the company before moving on to Hewlett-Packard and Oracle 





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Paula and her late husband shared two daughters, Kathryn, and Kelly 

Gates' ex-wife, and EvDEn eve nakliyat mother to their three children, previously opened up about her 'unbelievably painful' divorce and explained that she 'just couldn't stay in that marriage anymore'.
Melinda French Gates told Fortune magazine in October that the Covid-19 pandemic helped give her the 'privacy to do what she needed to do.'
She also said in 2021 that her husband's affair with a Microsoft employee in 2000 had broken the 'trust' in their marriage.
She described how she sobbed on the floor as her marriage fell apart, having never thought that the relationship would end in divorce. 
The couple's divorce settlement is America's second-most expensive ever after Jeff Bezos' $38.3billion split with ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos.