Bill Gates was wearing his wedding ring at a virtual event nearly 2 weeks after announcing his divorce

• Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced their divorce on May 3.
• Gates's talk at a virtual event Wednesday was his first public appearance since the announcement.
• He was seen in the virtual conversation with his wedding band on his left ring finger.

Bill Gates was seen wearing a wedding band on his left ring finger during a virtual event on Wednesday, just two weeks after he and his wife Melinda French Gates announced their divorce.

As the $4 first reported, Gates spoke at the US Chamber of Commerce's $4 on Wednesday, his first public appearance since the couple announced their divorce. In the video, the ring can be spotted on his finger.

A spokesperson for Gates did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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In the weeks since, questions have swirled regarding $4, their continued efforts at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $4, and other factors regarding Gates's personal conduct, such as an affair he had with a Microsoft staffer in 2000. A Gates spokesperson $4 and said it "ended amicably."

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Reports have also surfaced detailing how $4 after the news became public of $4 Gates and Epstein met multiple times between 2011 and 2014, as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times has reported.

Gates $4 in 2019 that he had indeed met the financier but did not have "any business relationship or friendship with him."

A source told Page Six this week that he is $4 Prior to that, Gates reportedly saw the divorce coming and was lying low at his home in Indian Wells for three months.