Bill and Melinda Gates announce
they are getting divorced
Posted By: Ribicon, 5/3/2021 5:09:42 PM
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates—who is worth an estimated $130 billion — and his wife, Melinda, are getting a divorce after 27 years of marriage, the couple announced Monday in a joint statement. “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” a statement from the billionaire philanthropist couple, tweeted from both of their personal Twitter accounts at 4:30 p.m. EST, reads. “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
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Split the money, hide the rest in the "charitable trust," and maybe people will stop wondering why a monopolist intellectual property thief came to amass that obscene of a fortune.