Gates’ marital split follows Melinda’s long journey away from Bill’s shadow


Melinda’s long journey away from Bill’s shadow is set to enter a new phase after the billionaire benefactors announced on May 3 that they would divorce after 27 years, saying in a court filing that ‘this marriage is irretrievably broken’. — Reuters

When Melinda French Gates asked her husband, Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates, to let her co-author the 2013 annual letter about their foundation, the conversation blew up into a fight.

“It got hot,” Melinda wrote in her 2019 book, The Moment Of Lift. “Bill said the process we had for the Annual Letter had been working well for the foundation for years, and he didn’t see why it should change.”

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