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The husband said about the divorce, and then as in spite of Bill Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates, famous philanthropists and co-founders of the largest charitable foundation, filed for divorce after 27 years together. Their family was considered exemplary. The Gates raised children, did charity work and did not give the press even a hint of any quarrels.
In recent years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent more than $20 billion fighting poverty and disease. Moreover, more than 200 billionaires from 23 countries joined the project founded by their spouses in partnership with Warren Buffett. All pledged to share their capital "to advance human potential and promote equality."
But it has become commonplace for netizens to attribute the worst intentions to people whose motives do not fully understand. Gates has been accused of all mortal sins. For example, falsely portrayed as the creator of the coronavirus. The divorce situation was no exception.
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce, but have said they will continue to work together at their own charity. In 2021, Bill Gates took the fourth place in the ranking of the richest people on the planet. Melinda can get half the fortune. pic.twitter.com/HtmkJgqD2X
— bbcrussian (@bbcrussian) May 4, 2021
“Something bad they started, since they distract attention,” readers say in the comments under the news of the divorce. Apparently, they did not divide the chipped population or want to escape taxes. Well, let us not take the example of fortune-tellers on coffee grounds and, rejecting speculation, turn to what is precisely known at this point.
Melinda Gates Anne French was born on August 15, 1964 in the family of an engineer and a housewife. She attended a Catholic school, then received a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Duke University and in 1986 got a job at Microsoft.
A year later at a conference in New York, Bill Gates drew the attention of a gifted girl. “It turns out we have a lot in common. We both loved puzzles, so we had fun with math games, Melinda later recalled.
A few years later, Gates began to think about marriage. According to Melinda, he made a list of pros and cons of marriage. And here, too, not without mathematics: the calculation showed that “for” more. As a result, in 1994, colleagues played a magnificent wedding in Hawaii.
GettyImages Two years later, Melinda left Microsoft to devote herself fully to children. She later wrote that at the time, Bill was always busy and did not pay enough attention to the upbringing of Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe.
Before the wedding, Bill and Melinda visited Zanzibar. It was there that they first thought about helping people in poor countries. The continuation of these plans was founded in 2000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the main burden of which initially fell on the shoulders of Bill’s wife.
“After much thought and hard work on our relationship, we have decided to end our marriage,” Gates and his wife said in a statement.
pic.twitter.com/padmHSgWGc
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) May 3, 2021
They went on to say they had "built a foundation that works around the world to allow all people to lead healthy and productive lives" and that they "continue to share a belief in this mission," but they "no longer believe they can grow together as a couple in the next stage of life."
GettyImages In the documents submitted to the court, Melinda refers to the fact that “the marriage is irretrievably destroyed” and asks for a decision to dissolve the marriage “on the day specified in the separation agreement.”
Apparently, there is no marriage contract, and the spouses have already separated earlier and fixed this by signing the relevant document, which determines the conditions of divorce. This contract was not included in the divorce application but will obviously determine how the couple is going to divide their assets. According to Forbes, on May 3, Gates has already transferred $ 1.8 billion of shares to Melinda.
The New York Post reports on the unusual details of the marriage of Melinda and Bill Gates.
GettyImages So, in an interview with Time magazine dated 1997, the Microsoft founder admitted that even before the wedding, he had secured Melinda's consent to continue seeing his ex-girlfriend Anne Winblad. Gates and Winblad broke up in 1987, but remained friends and, according to Gates, spent a weekend together in a beach bungalow every year "for more than a decade."
There are also rumors of an affair between Gates and 36-year-old Chinese translator Zhe “Shelly” Wang. The woman works at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but with all her might refutes the rumor that she allegedly caused the divorce of her bosses.
Two years ago, one of the richest couples in the world divorced. Jeff Bezos left Mackenzie Bezos with a 4% stake in Amazon and overnight made her one of the wealthiest women in the world.
The article and the preview used photos.
In recent years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has spent more than $20 billion fighting poverty and disease. Moreover, more than 200 billionaires from 23 countries joined the project founded by their spouses in partnership with Warren Buffett. All pledged to share their capital "to advance human potential and promote equality."
But it has become commonplace for netizens to attribute the worst intentions to people whose motives do not fully understand. Gates has been accused of all mortal sins. For example, falsely portrayed as the creator of the coronavirus. The divorce situation was no exception.
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce, but have said they will continue to work together at their own charity. In 2021, Bill Gates took the fourth place in the ranking of the richest people on the planet. Melinda can get half the fortune. pic.twitter.com/HtmkJgqD2X
— bbcrussian (@bbcrussian) May 4, 2021
“Something bad they started, since they distract attention,” readers say in the comments under the news of the divorce. Apparently, they did not divide the chipped population or want to escape taxes. Well, let us not take the example of fortune-tellers on coffee grounds and, rejecting speculation, turn to what is precisely known at this point.
Melinda Gates Anne French was born on August 15, 1964 in the family of an engineer and a housewife. She attended a Catholic school, then received a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Duke University and in 1986 got a job at Microsoft.
A year later at a conference in New York, Bill Gates drew the attention of a gifted girl. “It turns out we have a lot in common. We both loved puzzles, so we had fun with math games, Melinda later recalled.
A few years later, Gates began to think about marriage. According to Melinda, he made a list of pros and cons of marriage. And here, too, not without mathematics: the calculation showed that “for” more. As a result, in 1994, colleagues played a magnificent wedding in Hawaii.
GettyImages Two years later, Melinda left Microsoft to devote herself fully to children. She later wrote that at the time, Bill was always busy and did not pay enough attention to the upbringing of Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe.
Before the wedding, Bill and Melinda visited Zanzibar. It was there that they first thought about helping people in poor countries. The continuation of these plans was founded in 2000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the main burden of which initially fell on the shoulders of Bill’s wife.
“After much thought and hard work on our relationship, we have decided to end our marriage,” Gates and his wife said in a statement.
pic.twitter.com/padmHSgWGc
— Bill Gates (@BillGates) May 3, 2021
They went on to say they had "built a foundation that works around the world to allow all people to lead healthy and productive lives" and that they "continue to share a belief in this mission," but they "no longer believe they can grow together as a couple in the next stage of life."
GettyImages In the documents submitted to the court, Melinda refers to the fact that “the marriage is irretrievably destroyed” and asks for a decision to dissolve the marriage “on the day specified in the separation agreement.”
Apparently, there is no marriage contract, and the spouses have already separated earlier and fixed this by signing the relevant document, which determines the conditions of divorce. This contract was not included in the divorce application but will obviously determine how the couple is going to divide their assets. According to Forbes, on May 3, Gates has already transferred $ 1.8 billion of shares to Melinda.
The New York Post reports on the unusual details of the marriage of Melinda and Bill Gates.
GettyImages So, in an interview with Time magazine dated 1997, the Microsoft founder admitted that even before the wedding, he had secured Melinda's consent to continue seeing his ex-girlfriend Anne Winblad. Gates and Winblad broke up in 1987, but remained friends and, according to Gates, spent a weekend together in a beach bungalow every year "for more than a decade."
There are also rumors of an affair between Gates and 36-year-old Chinese translator Zhe “Shelly” Wang. The woman works at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but with all her might refutes the rumor that she allegedly caused the divorce of her bosses.
Two years ago, one of the richest couples in the world divorced. Jeff Bezos left Mackenzie Bezos with a 4% stake in Amazon and overnight made her one of the wealthiest women in the world.
The article and the preview used photos.
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