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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And just like that. She became one of the worlds most beautiful women.
I’m available Melinda.
Maybe he can kill himself and his wife and 3 kids.
The damage and the horror he caused in India and Africa testing drugs on the people there.
Hillaryous replies
“Hey Siri, how much is a bazillion divided by two?”
Probably will marry his secretary/assistant/whatever.
Article says he is the fourth richest man in the world.
I wonder who the first three are.
She gets the house. Bill keeps the Windows.
I know...I’ll show myself out...
Hmm, to me Gates is more of the asexual type, I think their children are more like "buds" than offspring ...
He’s having a $965 million yacht built.
One wonders if he did it to ride out the pandemic away from other people.
/tinfoil hat>
Oh yes!! A statement we shall repeat for years to come!
They had a reconcilable differences. He wanted to take out Africa first, but she wanted to take out Australia.
My impression is they could occupy separate wings of the mansion and never know the other was there.
Or clippy...
She finally figured out he is a geek? Or he finally figured out he prefers d*ck?
Whatever happened, you know the gold diggers are lining up as we type.
When they leave us alone, then we leave them alone.
Their foundation is pure evil.
Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg.
I think Bill Gates only lusts after…Bill Gates.
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