Bill Gates divorce: How a Massachusetts hotel could be caught in the middle Updated 7:14 AM; This article first appeared on the Boston Business Journal’s . Perhaps Bill Gates has stayed there while stopping by Harvard University for a speaking engagement since dropping out and becoming one of the world’s most famous businessmen. Either way, a hotel in Harvard Square happens to be one of a wide range of properties that could now be caught up in the divorce between Bill and Melinda Gates. The Gateses, through a secretive investment firm, own Harvard Square’s Charles Hotel, which stands just a few blocks from Harvard Yard, off which Gates reportedly lived in Harvard’s Wigglesworth Hall dorm before leaving in 1975. The 10-story hotel was built a bit later, in 1984, according to city records.