Melinda Gates Was Meeting With Divorce Lawyers Since 2019 to End Marriage With Bill Gates (around when Bill Gates’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein became public)

The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 9, 2021 | Emily Glazer and Khadeeja Safdar

[MinorityRepublican]

The split between Bill and Melinda Gates, announced last week, has been in the works for a long time.

Ms. Gates consulted with divorce lawyers roughly two years before she filed for divorce from Mr. Gates, saying their marriage was “irretrievably broken,” according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The 56-year-old philanthropist has been working with lawyers at several firms since at least 2019 to unwind the marriage of more than 25 years, according to these people and the documents.

Last Monday, the billionaire couple announced they were ending their marriage. In a joint statement posted on Twitter, they said, “we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.”

The couple hasn’t said what prompted the split. One source of concern for Ms. Gates was her husband’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to the people and a former employee of their charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ms. Gates’s concerns about the relationship dated as far back as 2013, the former employee said.

The couple negotiated their divorce throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the documents show. They have three children who are all now 18 years or older, the divorce filing shows. The youngest is a senior in high school.

According to the documents reviewed by the Journal, Ms. Gates and her advisers held a number of calls in October 2019 when the New York Times reported that Mr. Gates had met with Mr. Epstein on numerous occasions. Mr. Gates once stayed late into the night at Mr. Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, the Times reported.

Bridgitt Arnold, a spokeswoman for Mr. Gates, said in 2019 that the software mogul and Mr. Epstein had met multiple times to discuss philanthropy.

[MinorityRepublican]

I think that the revelations that are likely to dribbled out to the public on the whole Jeffery Epstein thing are likely to decapitate much of the power elite and most likely way more leftists than conservatives.

Simply because Conservatives were not included in the power elite.

[MrKatykelly]

It’s always been my understanding she agreed he could get one week a year with his exgirlfriend as a condition of the marriage. Sooooo.. what’s new here?

[attiladhun2]

Maybe Bill has ED, afterall, he is associated with Microsoft

[Fred Nerks]

Seems to me Epstein was an equal-opportunity extortionist like Ms Maxwell's father was.

[Albion Wilde]

Melinda can go live in her 1500 square foot dream home

Are you sure she only wants a 1500-sq-ft home? That's basically a one-bedroom. She has 3 kids.

[Candor7]

Just think of Gislain being interrogated.

“Where are the evidence files you say willbe released should you die?”

Silence

Where is all the extortion money you took from Clinton, Prince Andrew and others?

Silence

Maxwell:

You bring me to trial we will use that evidence
as defense sources and methods.

Now let me out of here or try me. You cannot keep me here forever.

( One would think that a good lawyer could get her released ,)

[Fred Nerks]

Methinks this whole sorry business is beyond any aspect of the Law, the Maxwell hydra had its hooks into the highest echelons of what we naively think of as government. They played by their own rules and have safeguards installed that can only be exposed after their demise. If ever.

Those who consider themselves Very Important People are implicated in swimming in a sewer. That's how blackmailers and manipulators work. The edifice of a number of Nation States are threatened.

She's just one snake on the head of Medusa.

[Candor7]

I want to see dirty pictures of Bill Gates published in the New York Slimes.

The FBI hasn’t cleaned up all the evidence.

Come on Gislein, release just a little bit of the Kraken!