“After a lot of thinking and working on our relationship, we have decided to end our marriage,” Bill and Melinda Gates write in a joint announcement on Twitter.
The two met when Melinda French joined Microsoft, the successful computer company that Bill Gates started up in the 1970s. Together they have three children.
Bill and Melinda have also given their name to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a foundation that aims to improve healthcare worldwide, reduce extreme poverty and facilitate access to information technology. They also run their foundation jointly.
65-year-old Bill Gates is considered one of the richest people in the world. According to Bloomberg news agency, he has assets of nearly $ 146 billion.
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