Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage

 

Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage





Bill and Melinda Gates have announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage, saying "now we don't believe we can grow together as a couple".

The couple tweeted, "After a lot of thinking and a lot of work on our relationship, we have decided to end our marriage."

They first met in the 1980s when Melinda joined Bill's Microsoft firm.

The billionaire couple has three children and runs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly.

The organization has spent billions fighting infectious diseases in children and encouraging vaccinations in children.



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According to Forbes, Bill Gates, 65, is the fourth richest man in the world, valued at 12 4,124bn (£ 89bn).

How did they get together?


Melinda, now 56, joined Microsoft in 1987 as a product manager, and the two sat together at a business dinner in New York that year.

They started dating, but as Bill told the Netflix documentary: "We care a lot about each other and there were only two possibilities: either, we were going to break up or we were going to get married."

They were married in 1994 on the island of Lanai, Hawaii, and all local helicopters were hired to fly off unwanted guests.

Bill retired from Microsoft's board last year to focus on his philanthropic activities.



What is the Gates Foundation?

The couple founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle in 2000
The foundation's focus is primarily on public health, education, and climate change
Its grant included some 75 1.75 billion for vaccine initiatives and research during Code 19 epidemic diseases.
In 2019, the foundation's total assets were over bn 43bn
Bill and Melinda Gates contributed more than 36 36 billion to the foundation between 1994 and 2018

What role did Melinda play in their campaigning?

"Bill and I are equal partners," he told the Associated Press in an interview in 2019. Men and women should be equal at work.

In her recent memoir The Moment of Lift, she writes about her famous childhood, life, and personal struggles as the wife of a celebrity and a mother living with three children.

In addition to her work with the foundation, she founded Pewtal Ventures, an investment company focused on women and families, in 2015.

At the time, he said, "the world is finally waking up to the fact that when half of us are left behind, none of us can move forward." "The statistics are clear: Empowered women change societies."



































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