Bill Gates, 65, announced on Twitter on Monday that he and his 56-year-old wife Melinda are divorcing
He has hired Charles T. Munger, a 97-year-old L.A.-based business lawyer and philanthropist
Both of them worked at Berkshire Hathaway; Gates served on the board until May 2020, Munger is a VP there
Munger is not a family lawyer - his expertise is in business, real estate and investing
In the 1950s, he lost all his money to his first wife, Nancy; he recovered to become a billionaire
Melinda described her marriage as irretrievably broken in a divorce petition viewed by DailyMail.com
How Bill Gates fell for Melinda over Clue game and used whiteboard to consider marriage
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates have announced they are divorcing after 27 years of marriage - but when did their love story begin and what brought the together?
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Compared with some of his tech-mogul counterparts who work their labor forces to death, imperil democracy, and attempt to buy Hawaii, Bill Gates has often been perceived as a stand-up guy, someone who got out of the game early to settle down and give away his billions. The settling down was a big part of that myth: the “Bill and Melinda” of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation projected an image of philanthropic and marital stability, America’s technocrat aunt and uncle who were always ready to sweep in, drop surprising amounts of cash, and only occasionally say stupid things. Just a couple years ago, Bill tweeted a photo of the couple on the occasion of their 25
Bill and Melinda Gates’ Love Story Revisited: A Timeline
By Nicole Massabrook of US Weekly |
Bill Gates and
Melinda Gates have announced their plans to divorce, which came as a shock to many after they shared 27 years of marriage.
“After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” they shared in a statement on Monday, May 3. “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 believer 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.”
He was funny and very high energy, she said of their first chat, adding that she turned down his request to go dancing with friends at the end of the evening.
Months later, when they ran into each other in a parking lot, she said her future husband asked if she would you go out with me two weeks from Friday night. She told him that wasn t spontaneous enough for her – so he called her an hour later and said, Well is this spontaneous enough for you?
They were married in 1994 in Hawaii.
On the decision to get married
More was revealed about the couple s relationship in Inside Bill’s Brain, including that Bill Gates was so serious about marriage that he had made a pros and cons list on the commitment.