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Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, had a few run-ins with the law in his younger days, including one that led to an infamous mugshot that continues to haunt the internet today. The above mugshot shows a young Gates in police custody in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The caption claims, semi-accurately, that he was arrested for jumping a red light and driving without a license. (According to the Albuquerque police, he failed to stop at a stop sign.) Gates himself addressed the arrest that led to that mugshot in an interview with Time Magazine in 2007: While Time says he was 22, articles from 1998 put his age as 21 at the time of his arrest. According to a 1998 Associated Press story, the same mugshot was featured on the cover of Brill’s Content magazine as part of a story about Microsoft’s public relations machine. According to the AP article (which cites the Albuquerque police), the 1977 arrest was for running a stop sign and driving without a license. Gates had also been arrested in 1975 for speeding and driving without a license. Gates himself reportedly first saw the photograph when representatives of the city of Albuquerque asked him if they could release it to Brill’s Content. He also showed it at a May 1998 speech, which many said was a preemptive attempt at damage control. Given that Gates himself and The Associated Press both addressed the circumstances of the arrest, we rate this claim as True.
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