… I would have bought the negatives for this photo shoot and burned them:
Reportedly, these were for a Teen Beat photo spread, 1983.
Update: J-Walk checked with Snopes, which has the actual provenance of these pics:
Verdict: Real photos; inaccurate description.
These images are actually publicity photos taken of the then 30-year-old Bill Gates coincident with the initial release of Microsoft Windows in 1985. The Corbis photo archive identifies their depiction thusly: “Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA.”
(Via Boing Boing.)
Btw, given that they’re owned by corbis, bill DOES own the negatives