> It's very likely his affairs were simply open secrets within the C suite.

There's a lot of people who usually know.

People with power think their farts don't smell or that the rest are stupid and don't notice or some don't care that people know as long as they keep their moths shut, or they get careless over time -- but lots of people eventually know.

Early in my career I shared an office with the mistress of a General Manager, she was on good terms with everybody in the office (kind of odd she was placed in the same office with nerdy devs she had zero work contact with) -- but everybody else hated her guts, can't really rember their grievances. Anyway I used to catch glimpses of phisical contact between them and the guy divorced and they married.

Relationships with colleagues were encouraged with some limitations, perhaps that's why they were so non-chalant about it (though the guy being married back home was kind of gross even for our european open minds).

In the '70s a new manager transferred in. Some of the old hands pointed out that his wife was his second wife and former secretary. Back then, people talked, but there was no outrage.