{"id":13152,"date":"2021-05-05T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13152"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:04:24","slug":"bill-and-melinda-gates-broke-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13152","title":{"rendered":"Bill and Melinda Gates Broke Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American businessman, Microsoft founder Bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13016\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13016\">Gates <\/a>and his wife Melinda Gates announced their separation after living together for 27 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 5, 2021 \u2013 Entrepreneurs<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;After much deliberation and hard work regarding our relationship, we decided to annul the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11928\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11928\">marriage<\/a>,&#8221; they said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Over the past 27 years, we have raised three wonderful children and established a foundation that works all over the world to ensure a healthy and productive life for all people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Gates, married life between them had become impossible and could not continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft&#8217;s co-founder Bill Gates left the company&#8217;s board of directors last year and has since focused mainly on philanthropy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He still owns about 1.3% of Microsoft with a net worth of roughly $ 130 billion, and he ranks fourth on the list of the richest people in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to financial data, the Gates Foundation\u2019s assets are close to $ 50 billion, and over the past 20 years, it is the largest private charitable institution in the world. Every year during 2018 and 2019, the fund allocates approximately $ 5 billion in grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent months, the fund provided $ 1.75 billion to develop and distribute tests, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=13016\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13016\">treatments<\/a>, and vaccines against COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, a grant of $ 4.9 million was awarded to the German company BioNTech, which together with Pfizer created the first vaccine against the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the divorce petition, Bill and Melinda said they would continue to work together as part of a charitable mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=11770\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"11770\">Shuranov Scores Second Goal for German FC Nuremberg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: Ukrgate<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American businessman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates announced their separation after living together for 27 years. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; May 5, 2021 \u2013 Entrepreneurs &#8220;After much deliberation and hard work regarding our relationship, we decided to annul the marriage,&#8221; they said in a joint statement. &#8220;Over the past 27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3842,6135,6134,6136,2399],"class_list":["post-13152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurs","tag-bill-gates","tag-breakup","tag-charity","tag-melinda-gates","tag-ukraine-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13154,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13152\/revisions\/13154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}