Bill and Melinda Announce Divorce After 27 Years Together
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Kurt Cobain
,
Janis Joplin
,
Jim Morrison
,
Jimi Hendrix
,
Amy Winehouse
... and now the
Gates
couple
.
27 years has turned out to be an insurmountable time horizon for the richest couple in the world, who joins the
Club of 27
. Neither a Trojan virus nor a hacker, with the union of Bill and Melinda Gates, has ended the impossibility "of growing together in the next phase of their life," according to the philanthropist and founder of
Microsoft
on his
Twitter account
in a statement. with both as undersigned. According to
People
, they have a separation agreement to distribute the assets of
$ 130.5 billion
estimated by
Forbes
.
Melinda French
(56) and
Bill Gates
(65) met in 1987. She worked as a product manager for Microsoft in New York and he had already founded that company called to revolutionize the world with
Paul Allen
for 12 years
.
It was the day that Bill sat next to her at a sales meeting.
Melinda sensed their interest and, a few months later, they began dating.
She was 23 and he was 32. They were married on January 1, 1994, in a secret wedding at the Manele Bay Hotel in Maui,
Hawaii
.
Earlier, they had discussed the pros and cons of linking on a whiteboard.
THE GATES FAMILY
As a result of the marriage,
Jennifer Katherine
(25),
Rory John
(21) and
Phoebe Adele
(18) were born.
The oldest of them studies Medicine at the
Icahn Medical School
, a prestigious center for higher studies in
New York
.
A fan of reading and horses, Jennifer lives in an apartment that her parents gave her on
Fifth Avenue
valued at $ 5 million.
Her fiancé,
Nayel Nassar
, with whom she has had to postpone the wedding due to the pandemic,
will settle there
.
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Rory John
maintains an even lower public profile than his younger sister and does not even have his social networks open. Following the family tradition, free from the spotlight and scandals, he is known for his
love of puzzles, poetry and baseball
. He studied at the
Lakeside School in Seattle
- like his father and Paul Allen - and, after graduating in Computer Science and Economics from
Duke University
in North Carolina, he pursued an MBA at the
Fuqua School of Business
.
The youngest,
Phoebe Adele
, also has her social accounts closed although she has more than
80,000 followers.
His main interest is art and he has also studied at the Lakeside School and the
Juilliard School
in New York.
He has not yet started his higher studies, although it is known that he has very similar inclinations to those of his father.
Although it is paradoxical, the Gates marriage
has
always
limited the use of technology to their children
, who did not have a mobile phone until they reached 14 years old.
In addition, the children had to earn their weekly pay by
doing household chores such
as cleaning the house or cleaning their room.
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HOUSES AND INHERITANCE
Among the countless real estate assets of the Gates family, with a preference for mansions, ranches and luxury hotels, stands out the very modern house of
6,100 square meters
where the family resides next to Lake Washington, in
Medina, Washington
, valued at
147 million dollars
.
It is spoken of as the "cybermasión" where they have more than
100 covers
to feed their guests, a garage that can accommodate their
20 vintage cars
and an "L" shaped pool with underwater music.
Also, last summer they purchased a seaside mansion in
San Diego
, California, for
$ 43 million
.
The wealth generated by Bill Gates over the past decades will not have a direct percentage impact on his descendants.
It will give each one 10 million dollars
, as he has assured on occasion, but the rest will be used for philanthropic purposes.
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