After 27 years of marriage and three youngsters, the couple introduced their divorce in Could 2021 via a assertion launched on X:
“After quite a lot of thought and lots of work on our relationship, we’ve made the choice to finish our marriage. We now have raised three unimaginable youngsters and constructed a basis that works all around the world to allow all folks to guide wholesome, productive lives,” the pair added. “We proceed to share a perception in that mission and can proceed our work collectively on the basis, however we not consider we will develop collectively as a pair on this subsequent part of our lives.” Their divorce was finalized three months later.
In Could 2024, regardless of prior claims that the previous couple would proceed to supervise the Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis, Melinda introduced her plans to step down as co-chair. The 60-year-old philanthropist revealed on X: “Beneath the phrases of my settlement with Invoice, in leaving the inspiration, I’ll have a further $12.5 billion to decide to my work on behalf of girls and households.”
