Bill and Melinda Gates reportedly agreed how to divide their property and assets before announcing their divorce on Monday, according to US media reports. The billionaire couple, who have been married for 27 years, signed a separation contract outlining how their estate would be split. But they did not sign a pre-nuptial agreement before their wedding in 1994. The couple run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has spent billions on charitable causes around the world. The former couple have pledged to continue to work together at the foundation once their divorce is finalised. Â Â If the couple split their wealth 50/50, Bill Gates would fall to 17th on the Forbes rich list.
Seattle, May 4
Billionaire benefactors Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of one of the world s largest private charitable foundations, filed for divorce on Monday after 27 years of marriage but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has become one of the most powerful and influential forces in global public health, spending more than $50 billion over the past two decades to bring a business approach to combating poverty and disease.
The Gates have backed widely praised programs in malaria and polio eradication, child nutrition and vaccines. The foundation last year committed some $1.75 billion to COVID-19 relief.
In a joint petition for dissolution of marriage, the couple asserted their legal union was irretrievably broken, but said they had reached agreement on how to divide their marital assets. No details of that accord were disclosed in the filing in King County Superior Court in Seattle.
Bill Gates wife, Melinda French Gates, has filed for a divorce after 27 years of marriage and the co-founder of Microsoft Corp. filed a joinder supporting the dissolution of the union.
The couple announced their decision through a joint statement that was published in Bill Gates Twitter account. In the statement, the former couple noted that they have arrived at the decision after contemplating and thinking about it.
New York Post reported that court documents revealed that the billionaire couple did not have a prenuptial agreement, which is a deal made by the couple before they marry concerning the ownership of their respective assets should the union fail.
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Billionaire benefactors
Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of one of the world’s largest private charitable foundations, filed for
divorce on Monday (3 May) after 27 years of marriage but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has become one of the most powerful and influential forces in global public health, spending more than $50 billion over the past two decades to bring a business approach to combating poverty and disease.
The Gates have backed widely praised programs in malaria and polio eradication, child nutrition and vaccines. The foundation last year committed some $1.75 billion to COVID-19 relief.
In a joint petition for dissolution of marriage, the couple asserted their legal union was “irretrievably broken,” but said they had reached agreement on how to divide their marital assets. No details of that accord were disclosed in the filing in King County Superior Court in Seattle.