We were all shocked to hear that Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced. Needless to say, Bill and Melinda Gates have A LOT of assets to divide. When they started dating in 1987, Bill Gates was already a billionaire with a net worth of $1.25 billion. When they married in 1994, he was worth around $15 billion. Thanks largely to his Microsoft stock. Bill was the richest person in the world uninterrupted from 1995 to 2017. Before the divorce was announced, Bill s $146 billion net worth was the 4th-largest fortune in the world.
Washington is a community property state and Bill and Melinda did not have a prenup. Of course, they could go the same route as Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott and simply negotiate an equitable settlement on their own without getting the divorce courts involved.
REVEALED: Inside Bill Gates 1,440 sq ft North Carolina love nest with former girlfriend Ann Winblad which rents on Airbnb as a Royal Retreat for Beach Lovers for $600-a-night
Bill Gates and his ex, Ann Winblad, spent a weekend a year at North Carolina royal retreat for beach lovers
Gates, 65, announced on Twitter on Monday that he and his 56-year-old wife Melinda are divorcing
Melinda agreed that Bill could vacation for a long weekend at the beach every year with Winblad
Home in Corolla, North Carolina near Outer Banks is a modest, oceanfront house that measures 1,440sq ft
It boasts four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a gazebo, and a private pathway to the beach
Sun, sea and same time next year! Inside modest Outer Banks hideaway where Bill Gates and ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad would spend one weekend a year
Bill Gates and his ex, Ann Winblad, spent a weekend a year at North Carolina royal retreat for beach lovers
Gates, 65, announced on Twitter on Monday that he and his 56-year-old wife Melinda are divorcing
Melinda agreed that Bill could vacation for a long weekend at the beach every year with Winblad
Home in Corolla, North Carolina near Outer Banks is a modest, oceanfront house that measures 1,440sq ft
It boasts four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a gazebo, and a private pathway to the beach
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