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CBC News: Bill and Melinda Gates announce end of their marriage

Published May 4, 2021 at 1:51 am

(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 11, 2015 Billionaire Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft Corp., and his wife Melinda attend the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. - Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder-turned philanthropist, and his wife Melinda are divorcing after a 27-year-marriage, the couple said in a joint statement Monday. The announcement from one of the world's wealthiest couples, with an estimated net worth of some $130 billion, was made on Twitter. (Photo by SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

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Bill and Melinda Gates said in a joint statement on Monday that they are ending their marriage. The pair, who launched the world’s largest charitable foundation, said they would continue to work together at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.