{"id":2011587,"date":"2021-05-03T22:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T22:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2011587\/"},"modified":"2021-05-03T22:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T22:29:14","slug":"bill-and-melinda-gates-announce-they-are-getting-divorced-new-york-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2011587\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Melinda Gates announce they are getting divorced | New York Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDImtfMkqrw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates \u2014 who is worth an estimated $130 billion \u2014 and his wife, Melinda, are getting a divorce after 27 years of marriage, the couple announced Monday in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,\u201d a statement from the billionaire philanthropist couple, tweeted from both of their personal Twitter accounts at 4:30 p.m. EST, reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver 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,\u201d the statement goes on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to share a belief 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. We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>#BillGates #MelindaGates #Divorce<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Catch the latest news here: https:\/\/nypost.com\/<br \/>\nFollow The New York Post on:<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NYPost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates \u2014 who is worth an estimated $130 billion \u2014 and his wife, Melinda, are getting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2011588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[703141,703139,703140,107663,703137,111731,703138,471783,515288,703136,281356,500544,8018,51782,8675,119994,703143,703142,98690,111729,1739,703133,201,703134,703135,70254,27757,219228,6946,67622,107213],"class_list":{"0":"post-2011587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-besos-divorce","9":"tag-bill-and-melinda-gates-divorce","10":"tag-bill-and-melinda-gates-getting-divorced","11":"tag-bill-gates","12":"tag-bill-gates-coronavirus","13":"tag-bill-gates-divorce","14":"tag-bill-gates-latest-news","15":"tag-bill-gates-microsoft","16":"tag-bill-gates-net-worth","17":"tag-bill-gates-news","18":"tag-bill-gates-pandemic","19":"tag-billionaire","20":"tag-breaking-news","21":"tag-breaking-news-today","22":"tag-coronavirus","23":"tag-divorce","24":"tag-divorce-announcement","25":"tag-gates-divorce","26":"tag-latest-news","27":"tag-melinda-gates","28":"tag-microsoft","29":"tag-new-york-post","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-ny-post","32":"tag-nypost","33":"tag-stories","34":"tag-story","35":"tag-top-stories","36":"tag-us-news","37":"tag-world-news","38":"tag-107213"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}