Melinda French Gates and the tech ex-wives going it alone
msn.comuntil their split last year. “You’re grieving a loss of something you thought you had and thought you had for your lifetime,” French Gates said.
She admitted that at least one affair, plus Bill’s friendship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein had shaken the foundations of their union irreparably. “I certainly believe in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some of that.
There just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realised it just wasn’t healthy and I couldn’t trust what we had. ”Since the divorce, Melinda, who met Bill in 1987 when she started working as a product manager at Microsoft, the company Gates had co-founded 12 years earlier, is worth around $6.
2 billion (£4. 6 billion). And so she joins the club, along with the first wives of Tesla’s Elon Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Google’s Sergey Brin, who have all found themselves single in middle age with billions to work out what to do with.
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