{"id":123643,"date":"2021-05-04T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=123643"},"modified":"2021-05-04T08:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T08:18:18","slug":"bill-and-melinda-gates-divorce-latest-updates-as-its-revealed-billionaires-has-no-and-perfect-27-year-marriage-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/bill-and-melinda-gates-divorce-latest-updates-as-its-revealed-billionaires-has-no-and-perfect-27-year-marriage-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Melinda Gates divorce &#8211; Latest updates as it&#x27;s revealed billionaires has NO and &#x27;perfect&#x27; 27-year marriage ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BILL and Melinda Gates have called it quits after a 27-year marriage, the couple announced on Monday on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>With the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft as the fourth richest man in the world, and with the pair having a combined net worth of $130 billion, many are wondering how their assets would be divided in a divorce.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun has seen their court documents, which makes clear they have no prenup. Instead, they have asked the judge to grant their separation date as the official divorce date.<\/p>\n<p>The couple has three children, Jennifer, Phoebe, and Rory Gates.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter on Monday, the two wrote: \u201cAfter a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tech mogul added that they \u201cno longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that they had raised &quot;three incredible children&quot; and worked to help people all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Melinda met at Microsoft. She had been a marketing manager at the software company. <\/p>\n<p>The two got married in Hawaii in 1994 after Bill Gates had weighed the pros and cons on a blackboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read our Bill Gates live blog below for the very latest news and updates&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>John Hall<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T08:00:16.000Z\">3 minutes ago<\/time><\/span>\n<p>A 27-YEAR MARRIAGE THAT STARTED AT MICROSOFT<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Melinda Gates met each other in 1987 at Microsoft. Bill, the world&#x27;s fourth-richest man, had just founded and was CEO for the tech company, and Melinda was a 24-year-old who had just gotten a job there.<\/p>\n<p>They got married seven years later in 1994. A year later, Bill became the richest man in the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>The two went on to found the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 1999 with the mission of fighting &quot;poverty, disease and inequity around the world.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The foundation is considering one of the world&#x27;s largest private charities, with the couple investing more than $1.75 billion to fight Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Bill stepped down from his role on Microsoft&#x27;s board of directors to focus more on the foundation last March.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>John Hall<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T07:30:14.000Z\">33 minutes ago<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL GATES EXPLAINS DECISION TO END MARRIAGE<\/p>\n<p>After the world found out Bill and Melinda Gates were splitting up by Twitter, Bill explained how they came to their bombshell decision.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable people to lead healthy, productive lives,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives. We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>John Hall<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T07:06:50.000Z\">56 minutes ago<\/time><\/span>\n<p>\u201cTHIS MARRIAGE IS IRRETRIEVABLY BROKEN\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sun has seen Bill and Melinda Gates\u2019 divorce filing, with a line reading their marriage was \u201cirretrievably broken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show the couple signed a separation agreement where they are asking the judge to honor as their date of divorce.<\/p>\n<p>It also states neither Melinda, who filed the document, nor Bill, the respondent, have requested fees or an order of protection.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, no spousal support is requested. However, the couple\u2019s property and finances are asked to be divided between the two of them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T05:34:43.000Z\">Today, 06:34<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL, THE MAN WITH NEED FOR SPEED<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates has racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars&#x27; worth of luxury cars &#8211; and supposedly has enough tickets to show proof of it.<\/p>\n<p>When Microsoft was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the early days of the company, Gates bought a Porsche 911 and raced it in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 1997\u00a0Time\u00a0article, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen had to bail him out of jail after he got three speeding tickets when he drove from Albuquerque to the company&#x27;s new home in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Gates also bought a Porsche 930 Turbo he called the &quot;rocket,&quot; a Mercedes, a Jaguar XJ6, a $60,000 Carrera Cabriolet 964, a $380,000 Porsche 959, and a Ferrari 348 that he called &quot;dune buggy&quot; after spinning it in the desert.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T05:12:27.000Z\">Today, 06:12<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL GATES LOVES GOLF AND INTELLECTUAL GAMES<\/p>\n<p>In a 1997 Time article about the world&#x27;s then most richest man, those near Bill Gates spoke about the Microsoft founder&#x27;s love for golf after marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Bill got into golf in the same addictive way he gets into anything else,&quot; said Steve Ballmer, who took over from Gates as Microsoft CEO from 2000 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>As Gates, Ballmer and his friends would go out to celebrate their friends&#x27; bachelor parties, the two would eat at Denny&#x27;s, go to the movies, and play mind games like trivia and Boggle.<\/p>\n<p>As Gates and others wed, Ballmer said he turned to golf, because &quot;it gets his competitive juice flowing.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T04:50:43.000Z\">Today, 05:50<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL ONLY PERSON ON EARTH WHO &#x27;DOESN&#x27;T COMPLAIN ABOUT WIFE&#x27;<\/p>\n<p>Although Bill and Melinda are splitting after 27 years of marriage, a friend said the two are always going to be good friends.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It doesn&#x27;t feel like there&#x27;s any inequality, even though he&#x27;s the one who started Microsoft and not her,&quot; said Mike Slade, a friend of the couple. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;He appreciates everything about her as opposed to complaining about her.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve never heard him complain about her. He&#x27;s the only person I know on this earth who I&#x27;ve never heard complain about his wife,&quot; Slade added.<\/p>\n<p>In the first episode of the 2019 Netflix docuseries Inside Bill&#x27;s Brain, Bill referred to Melinda as &quot;totally my partner.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T04:19:05.000Z\">Today, 05:19<\/time><\/span>\n<p>MELINDA RECOUNTS HOW BILL CAME TO MARRY HER<\/p>\n<p>The married couple of 27 years announced their divorce on Monday, but that hasn&#x27;t stopped people from sharing clips of the couple discussing how they met at a business dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Melinda said of her husband Bill in a 2019 Netflix docuseries, Inside Bill&#x27;s Brain, that she didn&#x27;t know if Bill would be serious about marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I was new to Microsoft. There were a lot of men there,&quot; she said. &quot;You know, you&#x27;re still looking around, you&#x27;re still figuring it out,&quot; she said. Earlier in that episode, Bill had been contemplating combining his love for her and his passion for Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Bill agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When we first met, she had other boyfriends and I had Microsoft. We were like, &#x27;Hey we&#x27;re not really serious about each other are we? We&#x27;re not going to demand each other&#x27;s time,&#x27; &quot; Bill said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But after about a year of that, sort of to our surprise, certainly my surprise, we said, &#x27;Hey, I love you,&#x27; and she said she loved me and then it was like, wow. Now what&#x27;s going to happen?&quot; Bill said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T03:55:53.000Z\">Today, 04:55<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL WISHES HE THANKED MELINDA MORE<\/p>\n<p>In the 2019 Netflix docuseries, Inside Bill&#x27;s Brain, Bill Gates said he wished he thanked his wife Melinda more, just two years before the couple announced their split following their 27-year marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The director of the three-part series asked Bill in the final episode: &quot;If you got hit by a bus today, died, what&#x27;s the one thing, the one thing you said, &#x27;God, I wish I had done that I haven&#x27;t done?&#x27;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And Bill responds: &quot;You know, thanking Melinda.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T03:09:24.000Z\">Today, 04:09<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL &quot;LEARNED&quot; TO BE EQUAL, MELINDA LEARNED TO &quot;STEP UP&quot; TO BE EQUAL<\/p>\n<p>In her 2019 book, The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates shared an argument she and Bill had over the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation&#x27;s mission statement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It got hot,&quot;\u00a0she wrote as they butted heads over the 2013 annual letter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Bill said the process we had for the Annual Letter had been working well for the foundation for years, and he didn&#x27;t see why it should change.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Melinda wrote that the two decided Bill would write a main letter for the report while Melinda would write one on contraceptives. The following year, Melinda wrote about myths that &quot;block progress for the poor,&quot; while Bill wrote two others.<\/p>\n<p>By 2015, they both signed one letter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s had to learn how to be an equal, and I&#x27;ve had to learn how to step up and be an equal,&quot; Melinda wrote, adding she was naturally &quot;shy&quot; and &quot;private.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T03:09:06.000Z\">Today, 04:09<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL &quot;LEARNED&quot; TO BE EQUAL, MELINDA LEARNED TO &quot;STEP UP&quot; TO BE EQUAL<\/p>\n<p>In her 2019 book, The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates shared an argument she and Bill had over the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation&#x27;s mission statement.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It got hot,&quot;\u00a0she wrote as they butted heads over the 2013 annual letter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Bill said the process we had for the Annual Letter had been working well for the foundation for years, and he didn&#x27;t see why it should change.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Melinda wrote that the two decided Bill would write a main letter for the report while Melinda would write one on contraceptives. The following year, Melinda wrote about myths that &quot;block progress for the poor,&quot; while Bill wrote two others.<\/p>\n<p>By 2015, they both signed one letter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s had to learn how to be an equal, and I&#x27;ve had to learn how to step up and be an equal,&quot; Melinda wrote, adding she was naturally &quot;shy&quot; and &quot;private.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T02:43:49.000Z\">Today, 03:43<\/time><\/span>\n<p>GATES KIDS TO INHERIT ONLY $10 MILLION<\/p>\n<p>After Bill and Melinda Gates&#x27; divorce documents revealed the couple never had a prenup, many are wondering how the couple, with a combined net worth of $130 billion, will split their assets. <\/p>\n<p>Gates, the world&#x27;s fourth-richest man, has spoken in the past about how each of his three children will only inherit about $10 million of his fortune.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about rumors that he would only leave his three children &#8212; Jennifer, Rory, and Phoebe &#8212; $10million each during a Reddit AMA session in 2013, Gates explained that it was for their benefit.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He and Melinda share three children and founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 to address several major global issues.<\/p>\n<p>The couple has donated $45billion through the foundation since its inception, including $1.75 billion to fighting Covid-19.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T02:05:00.000Z\">Today, 03:05<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL&#x27;S NOT ALONE &#8211; OTHER TECH FOUNDERS WENT THROUGH DIVORCE<\/p>\n<p>The world&#x27;s fourth-richest man finds himself in good company among other rich tech giant founders who went through a divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&#x27;s Jeff Bezos, the world&#x27;s richest man, announced his divorce from MacKenzie two years ago after their 25 years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The statement went on:\u00a0&quot;If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again,&quot; Bezos wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla&#x27;s Elon Musk, the third richest man on earth, also went through two divorces and a number of heartaches before dating Grimes.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cIt was an amazing four years. I will love you forever. You will make someone very happy one day,&quot; he said after his divorce from British actress Talulah Riley.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T01:47:19.000Z\">Today, 02:47<\/time><\/span>\n<p>WHAT IS MELINDA&#x27;S NETWORTH?<\/p>\n<p>After court documents were released showing Melinda&#x27;s request for divorce from Bill, many have wondered how much money will be divided between the star power couple with a networth of about $130 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The soon-to-be ex-wife of the Microsoft founder is worth $70billion, according to\u00a0Spear&#x27;s.<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Melinda chair their non-profit organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is considered the world&#x27;s largest private charitable foundation.<\/p>\n<p>They have donated over $45.5billion to charitable causes over time, and in 2019 donated $589million to charity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T01:26:32.000Z\">Today, 02:26<\/time><\/span>\n<p>&quot;THIS MARRIAGE IS IRRETRIEVABLY BROKEN&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Sun has seen Bill and Melinda Gates&#x27; divorce filing, with a line reading their marriage was &quot;irretrievably broken.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show the couple signed a separation agreement where they are asking the judge to honor as their date of divorce.<\/p>\n<p>It also states neither Melinda, who filed the document, nor Bill, the respondent, have requested fees or an order of protection.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, no spousal support is requested. However, the couple&#x27;s property and finances are asked to be divided between the two of them.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-04T00:17:22.000Z\">Today, 01:17<\/time><\/span>\n<p>PAPERS FILED FOR DIVORCE WITH NO PRENUP<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Melinda Gates have filed for divorce, and court documents show there is no prenup agreement.<\/p>\n<p>According to TMZ, which has seen the court documents, the Gates have filed for divorce, saying their marriage is &quot;irretrievably broken.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The document asks for the judge to make their pre-signed separation date as their divorce date. The separation papers were not included in the divorce document.<\/p>\n<p>The two have asked for a trial date in April 2022, but will likely settle this without a trial.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T23:43:56.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 00:43<\/time><\/span>\n<p>JENNIFER GATES RESPONDS TO PARENTS&#x27; SPLIT<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Gates, the 25-year-old daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates, posted on Instagram that her family has been experiencing \u201ca challenging stretch of time.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hi friends, by now many of have heard the news that my parents are separating,&quot; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I\u2019m still learning how to best support my own process and emotions as well as my family members at this time and am grateful for the space to do so.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>She added that she won&#x27;t personally comment on her parents&#x27; separation but said she thanked those who sent her messages and kind words during this time.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T23:18:59.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 00:18<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL GATES, THE FOURTH RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft co-founder, the world\u2019s fourth-richest man with a networth of $124 billion, currently owns 1.37 percent of Microsoft\u2019s outstanding shares, which are worth more than $26 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Bill created a pledge with Melinda and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett called the Giving Pledge, which would involve anyone who signed on to give more than half of their wealth to charitable causes.<\/p>\n<p>The couple decided to move $20 billion worth of Microsoft stock to their foundation as they wanted to increase their commitment to philanthropy. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has more than $51 billion in assets and has invested more than $1.75 billion to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Bill is the world&#x27;s fourth richest person, behind Amazon&#x27;s Jeff Bezos, LVMH\u2019s Bernard Arnault and Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T22:59:19.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 23:59<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BIL&#x27;S AND MELINDA&#x27;S PROJECTS THROUGH RECENT YEARS<\/p>\n<p>The Gates have been running the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since 2000, when Bill stepped down as Microsoft CEO to run the foundation full time.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the couple began focusing on other areas of interest.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Bill established Breakthrough Energy, an initiative intended to show climate change, which also includes a venture arm.<\/p>\n<p>Melinda that same year created Pivotal Ventures, a company that makes investments to increase equality.<\/p>\n<p>For the foundation, the couple published annual letters regarding the foundation&#x27;s work. <\/p>\n<p>The latest one, published in January, spoke to the impact of the pandemic and their efforts in bringing vaccines worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, the days became a blur of video meetings, troubling news alerts, and microwaved meals,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T22:45:58.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 23:45<\/time><\/span>\n<p>MELINDA &quot;IS A TRULY EQUAL PARTNER&quot; BILL SAYS <\/p>\n<p>Marking 25 years of marriage in 2019, Bill and Melinda sat down for the Netflix documentary Inside Bill&#x27;s Brain and spoke about their marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;In the case of Melinda, it is a truly equal partner,&quot; Bill said. &quot;She\u2019s a lot like me in that she is optimistic and she is interested in science. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;She is better with people than I am. She\u2019s a tiny bit less hardcore about knowing, you know, immunology, than I am,&quot; he joked.<\/p>\n<p>For Valentine&#x27;s Day in 2020, Bill Gates posted an Instagram photo showing him standing with his arm around Melinda, with the caption reading &quot;I couldn\u2019t ask for a better partner on this journey.&quot;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-96243952.jpg\"><span><\/span><figcaption class=\"article__media-caption\"><span><\/span><span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T22:34:26.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 23:34<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL AND MELINDA MET BECAUSE THEY WERE LATE TO DINNER<\/p>\n<p>The star power couple originally met by chance after both arrived late to a dinner and sat in the only two empty seats.<\/p>\n<p>In her book, The Moment of Lift, Melinda described how they were both invited to a business dinner and ended up sitting next to each other.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I showed up late, and all the tables were filled except one, which still had two empty chairs side by side. I sat in one of them. A few minutes later, Bill arrived and sat in the other,&quot; she wrote in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Melinda was a product manager as the only woman in the first ever class of MBA graduates that joined the company.<\/p>\n<p>She then rose the corporate ladder to become general manager of information products, and eventually met the CEO, Bill.<\/p>\n<p>The two then married in Hawaii in 1994.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/85d87a46-230d-49f1-a126-d3c062574302.jpg\"><span><\/span><figcaption class=\"article__media-caption\"><span><\/span><span>Credit: Getty Images &#8211; Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T22:16:15.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 23:16<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL AND MELINDA DISH ON HOW THEY DECIDED TO GET MARRIED<\/p>\n<p>A year before Bill and Melinda Gates got married in 1994, they had a &quot;whiteboard&quot; discussion on the prospect of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;His whiteboard had the pros and the cons of getting married,&quot; Melinda said in the 2019 documentary Inside Bill&#x27;s Brain. <\/p>\n<p>The whiteboard, however, was not symbolic of the marriage, with Bill saying in the 2019 doc that he took marriage &quot;very seriously.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe had other boyfriends, and I had Microsoft,\u201d Bill said. \u201cWe were like, \u2018Hey we are not really serious about each other, are we? We are not going to demand each other\u2019s time.&#x27;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was new to Microsoft, there were a lot of men there and &#8230; you are still looking around,&quot; Melinda agreed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/BB-GATES-SPLIT-OFFPLATFORM.jpg\"><span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T22:02:50.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 23:02<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BEING WITH BILL WAS &quot;INCREDIBLY HARD,&quot; MELINDA SAID IN 2019<\/p>\n<p>There were times that being married to Bill Gates were &quot;incredibly hard,&quot; Melinda said in 2019 when the couple celebrated their 25th anniversary together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he was having trouble making the decision about getting married, he was incredibly clear that it was not about me, it was about \u2018Can I get the balance right between work and family life?&#x27;&quot; she told The Sunday Times in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2019 documentary Inside Bill&#x27;s Brain, Melinda described how Bill came to the conclusion of getting married.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;His whiteboard had the pros and the cons of getting married,&quot; Melinda said in the documentary. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/NINTCHDBPICT000651257552.jpg\"><span><\/span><figcaption class=\"article__media-caption\"><span><\/span><span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T21:56:14.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 22:56<\/time><\/span>\n<p>A 27-YEAR MARRIAGE THAT STARTED AT MICROSOFT<\/p>\n<p>Bill and Melinda Gates met each other in 1987 at Microsoft. Bill, the world&#x27;s fourth-richest man, had just founded and was CEO for the tech company, and Melinda was a 24-year-old who had just gotten a job there.<\/p>\n<p>They got married seven years later in 1994. A year later, Bill became the richest man in the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>The two went on to found the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 1999 with the mission of fighting &quot;poverty, disease and inequity around the world.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The foundation is considering one of the world&#x27;s largest private charities, with the couple investing more than $1.75 billion to fight Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Bill stepped down from his role on Microsoft&#x27;s board of directors to focus more on the foundation last March.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/05\/NINTCHDBPICT000651258063.jpg\"><span><\/span><figcaption class=\"article__media-caption\"><span><\/span><span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T21:48:40.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 22:48<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL GATES EXPLAINS DECISION TO END MARRIAGE <\/p>\n<p>After the world found out Bill and Melinda Gates were splitting up by Twitter, Bill explained how they came to their bombshell decision.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable people to lead healthy, productive lives,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives. We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><span>Catherina Gioino<\/span><span><time dateTime=\"2021-05-03T21:38:36.000Z\">3rd May 2021, 22:38<\/time><\/span>\n<p>BILL AND MELINDA GATES SPLIT AFTER 27 YEARS OF MARRIAGE<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates announced their separation on Twitter earlier today, shocking the world after calling their 27-year marriage over.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft co-founder, the world&#x27;s fourth richest man with a networth of $124 billion, posted the news to his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,&quot; read his tweet.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/14841901\/bill-gates-melinda-divorce-latest-no-prenup-billionaire-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILL and Melinda Gates have called it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bill and Melinda Gates divorce - Latest updates as it&#x27;s revealed billionaires has NO and &#x27;perfect&#x27; 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