Posted on 05/03/2021 2:39:02 PM PDT by algore
Bill Gates, the fourth richest man in the world with a fortune of $124billion, and his wife Melinda are divorcing after 27 years of marriage.
The 65-year-old Microsoft founder and his 56-year-old wife announced the split on Twitter.
They both posted the same joint statement which read: 'After a great deal of thought and a lot of work, we have made the decision to end our marriage.
'Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives. We continue to share a belief in tat mission and will continue to 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.'
The couple have three kids; Jennifer, 25, Rory, 21, and Phoebe, 18.
It comes less than two weeks after they made their last public appearance, virtually, at a COVID event for healthcare workers.
Gates was already a billionaire when the pair got married in the early 1990s. He founded Microsoft in 1975 and became the world's youngest billionaire in 1987 at the age of 31. He also met Melinda that year.
They married six years later but he deliberated over it and, according to previous interviews given by Melinda, even made a list of pros and cons for marriage on a whiteboard.
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‘We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.’
Oh yeah. Like you deserve it. Working with the goons at the government spy agencies.
I don’t have anything to say, but if Melinda Gates want a much younger person ..
I wonder if she was waiting for the youngest to turn 18 or if this was a spur of the moment decision.
If you can I’d say wait til youngest graduated high school is likely.
Money makes the most ugly beautiful...😀
When you are 60ish have all that money and houses all over who needs to grow together. You can stay married and never have to see each other.
We asked for privacy, too Bill, but you forced your way into our lives.
Bill + Greta on the horizon??? She’s 18 now.
Maybe she’s tired of . . . Micro . . . soft.
The one on Mercer Island, just east of Seattle.
Two anti human retards...
Bill is taunting us by asking for privacy
John Kerry heading to Seattle in 5-4-3-2-1.
According to the article, they've already worked out a separation agreement. There won't be much to fight over.
They both decided they want to see other men.
The article I read last night (on Yahoo, I believe) said there were NO pre-nups.
This is gonna be good...
Yeah, but if he were a destitute, uneducated, illiterate, welfare-for-life African in need of "asylum" they'd welcome him with open arms.
Even with all of their $$, it looks like they waited until the last kid was "of age."
This was most likely in the works for years.
That happened next door. As soon as the kid turned 18, all hell broke lose.
A year or so earlier, the father moved out. As soon as he was gone, the Pro Trump stickers on the kid’s truck were all removed. The fatherly political influence of the father was destroyed by the bitch mother
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