

“I kept working with the person I was moving away from, and I needed to show up and be my best self every single day,” the philanthropist said. Frederic Stevens/Getty Images The former couple founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000. Bill and Melinda Gates divorced in May 2021. The former couple also founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 and continue to run it together following their separation - which French Gates credits for helping her process her emotions.

They have three children together - Jennifer, 25, Rory, 23, and Phoebe, 19 - who were always Melinda’s “main concern” during the separation. Melinda and Bill, 66, married in 1994 and were together for 27 years before divorcing in May 2021. “It’s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it,” she continued. “But the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do. “I had some reasons I just couldn’t stay in that marriage anymore,” French Gates, 58, told Fortune magazine. Melinda French Gates is opening up about her “unbelievably painful” divorce from Bill Gates. Bill Gates says he, ex-wife Melinda will run foundation ‘together forever’ĭestroyed Dutch building wasn’t factory owned by Bill Gatesīill Gates-funded ‘green’ grocer burns to ground, sparking conspiracy theoriesīuffett could stiff Gates by steering billions to his own abortion-rights charity: report
