Bill Gates and Melinda Gates file for divorce

Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of one of the world’s largest private charitable foundations filed for divorce. They filed a joint petition in King County Superior Court in Seattle on the ground that the marriage had irretrievably broken. They have reached an agreement on the division of their assets.However, they will work together in their company Microsoft in their existing roles. They have three children and all of them are majors. They have requested the court to approve their division of assets.

They made this decision after giving serious thought on their relationship. They felt that they can no longer grow as a couple and therefore are seeking for space and privacy.
The nonprofit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private philanthropic foundation in the US and was launched in 2000. It has net assets worth $43.3 billion. Both Bill and Melinda provided gifts of more than $36 billion to the Seattle based foundation. The foundation focused on public health, education and climate. It supported the development of the coronavirus vaccines, diagnostic tests and medical treatments. Bill and Melinda will continue to work together to shape and approve foundation strategies.
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University and founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen in 1975. The explosive growth of the company made him one of the richest men in the world.