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After the announcement a few months ago, Bill and Melinda Gates they formalized the divorce with a millionaire agreement. To reveal the TMZ gossip site according to which the cards have already been signed, marking a goodbye that arrives after 27 years of love. Indiscretions reveal that all the requests made in the preliminary phase of the divorce would have been respected, also thanks to the existence of a pre-marital contract.
The former spouses would have decided to divide money and real estate equally. Bill has a net worth of 130 billion dollars and ex-wife Melinda should perceive about 65. Not only that: the woman will also continue to bear the surname Gates. Sources close to the family report that the divorce would have been peaceful after all, but that there are still many unresolved issues between the two.
Melinda and Bill have guaranteed that, even after the divorce, they will continue to work together leading their foundation which will not undergo, at least for now, any change. Instead, the reasons for the farewell remain a mystery. Some indiscretions reveal that it was Melinda who put an end to the marriage, hurt by some of her husband’s attitudes. Not only that: Bill would have cheated on his wife with a woman he met at work, putting their union at risk.
Already in the past Bill Gates he had been accused of having had relations with employees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Some internal sources in the Foundation report tensions between the two spouses and refer to an investigation opened in 2000, when Gates was still at Microsoft, following the behavior of the entrepreneur who “would have tried to start a relationship with a woman from the company “. The following year, Bill would leave the board of directors, although Bridgitt Arnold, his spokesperson, has always denied a connection between the events.
A love, the one between Melinda and Bill, born in 1987 later love at first sight during a Microsoft press conference. Then the love story, born in the offices of the company where Melinda worked as a software developer, finally the wedding in 1994 in Hawaii. The couple had three children: Jennifer, Rory and Phoebe. Just the eldest daughter some time ago had commented on the news of the parents’ divorce, expressing all her sadness on social media. “I confess it was a really difficult time for our whole family,” he wrote.
