He is the billionaire Google boss under fire for not doing enough to protect children from internet porn.
Yet The Mail on Sunday revealed that 58-year-old Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, does fiercely protect one thing: his own private life, which is as colorful and complex as the ever-changing ‘Google doodle,’ which pops up each time the search engine is launched.
He is all for freedom when it comes to dodging corporate tax.
But there’s one place the freewheeling views of the billionaire Google boss fizzle out – his bedroom door.
Schmidt has had a string of affairs with younger women, including TV presenter Kate Bohner, PR executive Marcy Simon and Vietnamese concert pianist Chau- Giang Nguyen.
But the unlikely sex symbol with thinning hair and pockmarked skin who is worth $5.4 billion made at least one mistress sign a confidentiality deal.
Bohner, 46, had a three-year affair from 2007 with the married mogul, dubbing him Dr Strangelove. “As far as Kate was concerned it was true love,” a friend said. “The reason I am speaking out now is it is ironic that someone like him can be so free and easy discussing other people’s privacy issues online while using his vast wealth to protect his own image.”
Schmidt’s wife Wendy, 57, has reportedly accepted their open marriage. – The Standard