That's lazy complaining - replace billionaire with person in power (cultural, religious, cult leader, political) its the same thing.

I would argue that he's not a hall pass given the coverage.

Yes as you can see everyone is turning a blind eye to this.

And no one said a word about the affairs of Bill Gates, or Sergei Brin, or Donald Trump or Arnold Schwarzenegger, …

But when my neighbor Jim Regular cheated on his wife, it was on the front page of the New York Times.

Or was it perhaps not actually like that at all?