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The separate worlds of Bill and Melinda Gates
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By: Nicholas Kulish, Rebecca R. Ruiz and David Gelles
They built an empire that was essential in the pandemic. Now, their impending divorce makes personal a shift that confidants say was well underway in their philanthropic roles. Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates were stuck at home.
When the pandemic hit last March, the couple retreated to their 66,000-square-foot home on the shore of Lake Washington, venturing out infrequently to minimise their potential exposure to the virus. From their home offices they continued running the influential foundation that bears their name, video chatting with world leaders to secure financial commitments for vaccine distribution, and talking about the health of American democracy with their youngest daughter, who was finishing her senior year of high school remotely.
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Gavin Newsom demonstrated again that his main strategy is to ignore them.
Newsom joined firefighter allies for his first official anti-recall event, but he wasn’t interested in talking about his opponents. Reporters asked Newsom about John Cox branding him an empty-suit “pretty boy,” or about
Caitlyn Jenner’s launch video ahead of her media debut on “Hannity“ tonight. Newsom said he hadn’t seen Jenner’s video and would rather spend the three minutes elsewhere. Asked about his flurry of fundraising emails hitting Jenner, Newsom pivoted to vaccines.
Bill and Melinda Gates divorce: The fate of their fortune
4 May, 2021 01:01 AM
7 minutes to read
Bill and Melinda Gates in 2016. They no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives, they said in a statement. Photo / Getty Images
Bill and Melinda Gates in 2016. They no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives, they said in a statement. Photo / Getty Images
New York Times
By: David Gelles, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Nicholas Kulish
The divorce will create new questions about the fate of their fortune. The couple helped to create the Giving Pledge, but much of the money Bill Gates made as a co-founder of Microsoft has not