Bill and Melinda Gates, the influential billionaire couple in charge of the world’s largest private foundation, are divorcing after 27 years of marriage, the pair said Monday in separate announcements on Twitter.
Bill and Melinda will remain co-chairs of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and they will continue to work together to shape the strategies of the foundation and set the organization’s direction, according to a spokesperson. The shock announcement leaves several questions about the Gates fortune unanswered. It’s unclear how the couple will divide their assets or whether they signed a prenup, but due to the sheer size of their fortune, the split will likely be one of the largest divorce settlements in history.
Bill Gates, who in 1975 cofounded Microsoft, is worth $130.5 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world, according to Forbes. Gates first became the world’s richest person—with a $12.9 billion fortune—in 1995, one year after he married Melinda.
Complicating matters is the fact that Washington, where the Gates family resides, is a community property state. That means all assets acquired by either party during a marriage are considered communal and typically split equally during divorce in the absence of a prenup. Though in Washington, the parties can agree to divide their assets in a way that is “just and equitable,” which can result in settlements that aren’t necessarily 50/50, Janet George, a divorce attorney at Washington-based law firm McKinley Irvin, told Forbes.
Take Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife MacKenzie; Jeff gave MacKenzie one quarter of his Amazon stake in their divorce settlement. If Bill and Melinda did decide to split the fortune equally, Melinda would be worth $65.25 billion, which would be more than MacKenzie Scott, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife, who is worth $59.8 billion (Scott did donate nearly $6 billion of her fortune to charitable entities last year.).
Forbes assembled a list of the largest billionaire disunions on record—at least where we could follow the money. In some cases, like the split between Google’s Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, we don’t know the size of the settlement because divorce filings were sealed.
Read the full profile on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2021/05/03/how-the-gates-split-could-stack-up-against-the-biggest-billionaire-divorces/?sh=3f09d3232841
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People should note that Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the biggest private financial contributor to the W.H.O. The BMGF and George Soros helped fund the establishment of the Wuhan Virology Institute, together with the W.H.O, the World Bank, NWO Globalists, and various vaccine manufacturers. Bill Gates not only predicted this pandemic but also partnered (thru his Foundation) with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum, among others, and conducted a massive viral pandemic simulation called Event 201 in October 2019 that showed how ill-prepared countries are in facing such a pandemic. It was also Bill Gates who proposed mandatory vaccination against corona viruses for all people around the world, and introduced the idea of incorporating an implant in a vaccine against corona viruses for universal ID. BEWARE the "Mark of the Beast" spoken of in the Bible (Revelation 13:16-18). Bill and Melinda Gates have no medical training or attended any school of medicine, have no specialization on corona virus and its containment (they can't even solve the vulnerability of Microsoft software products to computer viruses), and their foundation promoted vaccines that reportedly caused the deaths and/or permanent disabilities of young women in India. Please refer to this website: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/articleshow/41280050.cms
great investment for Malinda :')
What I can't understand is why you would split after 25 years of marriage. If you've lasted this long why split?
The volume is terrible.
Update there is no prenup
One of them might have changed their mind on "World Eugenics"
She's a he
YES. now lets hope that satanic foundation gets destroyed too! good riddance!
this is what i would do if i was a billionaire: first it would stack the nena the lana and the lotus in such a way that the jonica the sabrina the francesca and the oasis could access their risks and rewards without relying on any of the criminal clinton crew clubhouse pollution, churning out more obama era abuses down near camp comey. i would swim ahead of the lotus, to secure the demi and the lustina, and arrange the floral paths to cleopatras southern reserve section according to americas freedoms, responsibilities, and best laid plans. obviously that allows the highest quality of enlightened interest and the correct orbit of enthusiasm to eliminate the offenses and their 'protected' command center excuses, with their assorted stolen 'service' sacrifices, in an entertaining but leisurely and educationally appropriate fashion. i would then invite besos x wife to join us for an all month earth day celebration which does not shy away from or neglect attention to various causes charities and institutional offers of assistance.
Rock melinda gates world.
Jesus Christ saves from sin.
Romans 3: 23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Hebrews 9: 27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Isaiah 64: 6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Revelation 21: 8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Romans 5: 8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3: 16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 14: 6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 10: 9-10.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Jesus said John 5: 24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
1John 5: 10-13
He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Ephesians 2: 8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Romans 8: 1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 15: 3-4
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
2 Corinthians 5: 21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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Smart Move by whom
U understand later
Dr Reiner Fuellmich and company are now suing Canada's PM, the Pope, the WHO and wait for it, the Gates! The divorce now looks timely?
I kept telling Gates for many years to level up.. finally he is listening.
People will be kicking themselves in few weeks if they miss the opportunity to buy and invest in cryptocurrency
2 1 Is Murdoch Ex wife Wendi Deng a spy from Chinese Gov? Bill be caution
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Couldn't give a flying fck
It's just a ploy to keep the money between them…
Before computers there were radios. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grLfm6a1Vow
And thats how you become a billionaire just being a wife of someone who worked all his life to get that 👀
i bet they short sell before the announcement!
Good you monster
Apparently there were some lines of seriously bad code in this relationship. Bill's involvement in the Pandemic hoax and the globalists' plan for mass-vaccinations/depopulation may have been the last straw.
Do people actually believe this is a real break up lol wake up! It's all a scam
Marriage is like a Tornado: "In the beginning there's a lot of blowing and sucking, Then you lose your house".
Oh wow is he single? Daaamn girls get in line i am first lol
it's all fake , he's seen that the market is about to crash , so he's splitting his money , it's called money laundering in a sneeky way , & he hopes you won't notice , he's not that stupid .
Word to the wise…never get married 🤷♂️
Bill Gate, the Devil is now time to pay your evil deaths !!!
Prenuptial agreement is not an option in marriage nowadays, because a marriage is a business agreement that why we need a legal document. Love’s got nothing to do with
P R E N U P
Remember that word guys.
Women logic: you're making all the money, but you need to trust ME