Bill Gates Getting Divorced | Why?
Bill Gates Getting Divorced
Bill Gates getting divorced |
Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced.
Yes, you read it right, Bill and Melinda Gates getting divorced.
"After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,"
Bill Gates, 65, who co-founded Microsoft in 1975, is the fourth richest man in the world and has a net worth of $130.5 billion,
Bill and Melinda Gates, 56, met in 1987 while working at Microsoft. Melinda, who was 24 at the time, had just started working as a marketing manager.
Bill was 31 and the CEO. They married in 1994, and a year later, Bill became the richest man in the world.
In 2000, they started the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropic organization that has spent $53.8 billion in its fight against "poverty, disease, and inequity around the world, according to the foundation's website. The charity, which is considered one of the world's largest, has invested more than $1.75 billion to fight COVID-19.
But, Divorced will not impact their work role, Bill and Melinda would remain co-chairs and trustees and no changes to their roles have been planned. "They will continue to work together to shape and approve foundation strategies, advocate for the foundation's issues, and set the organization's overall direction.
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