The meetings with the ex-boyfriend took place with the consent of his wife Melinda
Bill Gates spent a weekend each spring with his ex-boyfriend Anne Winblad, with whom he broke up in the year of the meeting with his wife Melinda.
The first love of billionaire Anne Winblad, with whom he continues to meet after his marriage to Melinda.
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However, the two remain close friends. The short vacations took place with the knowledge and consent of Mrs. Gates, with whom the billionaire had an agreement for these annual meetings, British and American media reveal.
The old relationship was talked about again after it became clear that the family of the 4th richest man in the world had broken up after 27 years of marriage. In interviews, Bill and Melinda Gates have repeatedly emphasized their understanding of each other and the fact that they have never quarreled in their lives together. But in her divorce petition, the 56-year-old wife stressed that their marriage was “irrevocably broken.”
Anne, 70, is hardly the reason for this, because the private meetings with Gates at her house in Uther Banks, North Carolina, lasted for many years. It was Ann Winblad who was called by the creator of Microsoft to ask for advice and blessings for his wedding to Melinda. He and Bill were boyfriends from 1984 to 1987 and separated because
she is 5 years old
older and thoughts
for a family, and he
not yet
Winblad has a brilliant career in Silicon Valley as the head of many software companies and is an expert in venture capital management. She is married to private investigator Alex Klein, the brother of Hollywood star Kevin Klein.
Long weekends (in the United States so-called weekends that are fused with one or two more weekends for public holidays) Bill and Ann spent walking on the beach, buggy sanding, kite flying, and playing mini golf, during which were able to talk for hours about biotechnology.
“We share the same vision of the world and of ourselves. And we wonder how we started a great adventure in a little-known industry when we were young, and that landed us in the center of a wonderful universe, ”says Anne.
When Bill was not yet married to Melinda, he and Winblad once went on vacation to Brazil with a 1,000-page textbook and studied bioengineering. Another time, while vacationing on a ranch in Santa Barbara, California, they obtained audio recordings of lectures by Richard Feyman (one of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, called the second greatest mind after Einstein) to enter the depths of physics. During
on a trip to
Zanzibar identified
human evolution
with the help of anthropologist Donald Johansson. Winblad even persuades the technical genius to stop eating meat. Something he observes for a while, but then returns to his old habits.
The New York Post even photographed the inside of the house, which it called the “secret love nest.” The modest but very cozy and sunny house with three bedrooms is on the beach. Since 2016, the owner has been renting it out for $ 2,700 for three nights, and the next free weekend in the schedule is only in September.
According to the media, Bill and Melinda Gates, who do not have a prenuptial agreement, have agreed on how to share their huge wealth, estimated from various sources, between between 130 and 146 billion dollars. In order not to get into the mouths of the tabloids for a long time, they wanted things to settle between them without much noise and without friction. “Divorce is not something worth spending money on,” was the maxim of both now almost ex-husbands. Many have announced that after the end of the division, Bill will fall from 4th to 17th place in the world in terms of wealth, and
Melinda will get up
the second richest
woman on the planet
after L’Oreal’s successor, Françoise Betancourt Meyers.
On the day the divorce became known, Cascade Investment, which Bill created with a profit from Microsoft, transferred $ 1.8 billion to Melinda. This company is Gates’ largest asset and invests in real estate, energy and hospitality.
The family has a real estate empire, and the pearl in the crown is the family home in Medina, Washington, which is equipped with the latest technology and is a real smart house that is self-governing. The value of the property is about 127 million dollars. Gates owns a thoroughbred horse ranch in Florida, a ranch in Wyoming and an oceanfront house in San Diego.
The family collection of cars includes dozens of luxury models, including the rare “Porsche 959” for 2 million dollars. The prestigious art collection even includes drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and his manuscript, valued at $ 34 million. Gates
own and over
242,000 acres of land c
18 states for $ 700 million
Three weeks before the separation was announced, Melinda bought a house in a Seattle suburb for $ 1.2 million.
According to people familiar with the matter, the biggest problems with the divorce will be related to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest private charities in the world. By the end of 2019, it had made grant payments of almost $ 55 billion. Melinda, a former general manager of Microsoft, helped build the foundation’s strategy, focusing on gender equality.
He was more focused on science and the global health crisis. In the last year, the foundation has donated more than $ 1.75 billion to develop coronavirus vaccines and fight the pandemic.
“Bill and Melinda Gates will remain co-chairs and trustees of the foundation,” a spokeswoman wrote. He noted that there are no planned changes in their roles, and that the two will continue to work together on the set goals. However, a number of organizations that have relied on funding are worried that the management of the foundation, which has pledged many more projects for billions, will be shaken.
The organization’s board has only three members – Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, who promised to donate a significant portion of his fortune to the charity of both spouses. This means that the differences between them will henceforth have to be resolved by the 90-year-old billionaire. Bill
Gates has hired for
lawyer right
Buffett’s hand –
The 97-year-old veteran
from World War II
war Charles Munger,
known for losing everything in his divorce from his first wife, but then recovering and becoming a billionaire. He drives a ramshackle old Chevrolet, and when asked why, he replies that he pushes the gold diggers away. Melinda hired one of Jeff Bezos’ lawyers during the divorce from his wife Mackenzie.
Long ago, Bill and Melinda Gates warned that their three children, Jennifer, 25, Rory, 21, and Phoebe, 18, would receive a minimal portion of their parents’ wealth. Now the media have revealed that $ 10 million has been allocated for each of them. From then on, they will have to secure their own future.
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