Bill Gates Is Worth $130 Billion—Here’s How Much His Wife Will Get in Their Divorce Settlement

Pete Davidson is closing out this season of “Saturday Night Live” by taking a comedic swipe at Chrissy Teigen. The comedian joined Colin Jost on Weekend Update, ostensibly to address Mental Health Awareness Month, and took a bit of a tangent.

Pete Davidson is closing out this season of by taking a comedic swipe at Chrissy Teigen.

Bill Gates, 65, is now admitting that he cheated on his soon-to-be ex-wife, Melinda, 56, before their split. The rather startling news comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft’s board of directors moved to remove him from its board in 2020 as it investigated the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with an employee at the tech company. Bill, however, claims that the affair had nothing to do with his “transition off the board”.

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates' divorce shocked the world as they announced separation after 27 years of marriage. The couple announced on May 3 that they were divorcing as they made a joint statement about the same.

Bill Gates‘s daughter Jennifer Gates made it clear on May 13 that she isn’t taking sides in her parents $150 billion divorce.  The 25-year-old, who is also very close to her mother Melinda Gates, took to her Instagram story to share a photo of her and her Microsoft founder father, 65, cuddled up.

After Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott’s divorce in 2019, Bill & Melinda Gates is the separation making rounds in the global media. Assumptions, factual or heard are being made to scrape the root cause behind the separation of two successful philanthropist billionaires.

Let’s face it, Bill Gates was a figure mired in controversy long before he had a reason to grace tabloid covers. So since Melinda Gates filed for divorce this month, seemingly out of nowhere, everyone has been scrambling to find some dark, twisted reason for the split.

There is more Bill and Melinda Gates tea being released and this time, a new report has emerged suggesting just how long she has been considering filing for divorce.

“I love being their mother,” Melinda Gates wrote on Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 9.) The 56-year-old mother of three coupled this message with a throwback photo of her and Bill Gates’s three kids — Jennifer, 25, Rory, 21, and 18-year-old Phoebe Gates — back when they were just young children. “Whatever Mother’s Day means to you — a day to celebrate a mom, honor a memory, or reflect on your own resilience — I hope your day is a meaningful one,” she added.

Melinda Gates and Bill Gates recently shocked the world with their announcement to head for a divorce after 27 years of marriage. The couple's decision to split was announced with a joint statement by the duo.

Ever since they announced their split, many have wondered why Bill Gates and Melinda Gates divorced. Well, it didn’t take long before social media users began speculating that a third party was to blame for the end of their 27-year marriage. A woman who works for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was accused of splitting up the pair—and now, she has reportedly shared her response to those rumors.

Divorces have sadly become as common as weddings amidst public personalities with the latest victims being Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, who after 27 years of marriage made the heartbreaking decision to call it quits. In their joint Instagram statement, Bill and Melinda confessed that they "no longer believe" they "can grow together as a couple in this next phase of" their lives.Given the heavy finances involved, Bill and Melinda's divorce will definitely be talked about for years to come.

This is the kind of high-stakes separation consequences that we just can’t wrap our heads around…

Bill Gates transferred stock worth nearly $2.4 billion to his wife, Melinda, on the day they announced they were divorcing after 27 years of marriage.According to SEC filings, Cascade Investment — which Bill manages — transferred nearly $2.4 billion in securities to Melinda on Monday, May 3. The transfer includes shares from AutoNation, Canadian National Railway Co., Coca-Cola Demsa and Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa SA.

On Monday the news came that shocked the world where billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates and Melinda Gates publicly announced their divorce after 27 successful years of marriage. Bill was the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft and Melinda was the General Manager of Information products in 1994 when the couple got married in Hawaii.

In the recent development in the phenomenon of Bill and Melinda Gates divorce, a report has arisen that Bill Gates’s firm Cascade which manages his financial wealth transferred a whopping amount of $1.8 billion in stock to Melinda Gates this week. Bill and Melinda never signed a prenup yet Melinda refused any spousal support from the billionaire.

As the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates’ net worth has been talked about for decades. Gates, a software developer, co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, in 1975.

Bill and Melinda Gates look to have signed, sealed, and almost delivered their divorce deal without a shot being fired.

Despite marrying wife Melinda Gates in 1994, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still continued to take annual weekend springtime getaways to his ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad‘s home in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. And Bill’s 56-year-old wife was aware of the arrangement.