Bill released a statement on Twitter informing about his divorce, in which he wrote – “After much thought and understanding and working on our relationship, we have decided to end our marriage.”
“In the last 27 years, we have raised three children and created a wonderful organization that helps people around the world to live healthier and better lives.”
“We will keep our faith in this mission and will continue to work for this foundation even further.” But we feel that as a couple we cannot move forward together in the next stage of our life.
“As we are exploring the path of our new life, we want the privacy of us and our family to be respected.”
Bill and Melinda met in the 1980s when Melinda joined the tech company Microsoft.
Parents of three children, Melinda and Bill, run a well-known philanthropic organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
This organization has spent billions of rupees worldwide on diseases caused by infection and vaccination of children.
Bill-Melinda Gates and billionaire Warren Buffett are believed to be the biggest hand behind the introduction of ‘Giving Pledge’. ‘Giving Pledge’ means the announcement by a billionaire that he will donate a large part of his wealth for social upliftment.
According to Forbes magazine, Bill Gates is the fourth richest person in the world with $ 124 billion.
In the 1970s, Bill Gates founded the well-known computer software company Microsoft, which gave Bill Gates great fame and wealth.
How did Melinda and Bill meet?
In 1987, Melinda joined Microsoft Company as a product manager. In the same year in New York, the two went together for a business dinner.
In a Netflix documentary, Bill Gates told that both of them started dating each other after this dinner.
Bill said in this documentary, “We both used to take care of each other very much, only two things could be possible in such a situation.” First – either break up and second – we get married. ”
In 1994, the two married in Lanai, an island in Hawaii. It is said that Bill had booked all the local helicopters of this island so that unwanted guests could not come to his wedding.
Last year, Bill Gates resigned from Microsoft’s board to give full time to his social work.
