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On Monday, the assets of Melinda Ann Gates (56), a practicing Catholic with a degree in Computer Engineering from Duke University - one of the most prestigious in the United States - surpassed the barrier of one billion dollars.

She got it thanks to a

transfer of 1,809 million dollars

(1,499.6 million euros) that her husband, William Henry Gates III, made her eleven years older than her, without university studies - Harvard started but left it to found Microsoft-, raised as

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