In Bill Gates divorce, who gets the 66,000-square-foot mansion?

A file photo of software mogul Bill Gates’ lakeside home in Medina, Washington. Valued at more than US$130mil (RM535.01mil), the tech-savvy mansion – dubbed Xanadu 2.0 – spans 66,000 square feet and racks up a yearly property tax bill of more than US$1mil (RM4.11mil). — Zuma Press/TNS

With the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce bombshell still echoing, so begins the process of divvying up the fourth-largest fortune in the world.

Forbes puts the Microsoft Corp co-founder’s net worth at just north of US$130bil (RM535.01bil), a massive sum that includes the world’s largest private family charitable foundation, a lucrative personal investment firm and a collection of real estate that rivals any in the country.