When Bill Gates had just announced his divorce, everything was calm.
The super-rich gave an absolutely decent breakup announcement on the grounds that they "could not continue to grow together" and announced that the two would continue to work together on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation without showing the slightest hint.
Jennifer, the eldest daughter of 25 years old, also took a bowl of water and first posted on behalf of the family on the day of the official announcement that "this is a difficult time", and then sent a photo with her parents separately to prove that her parents are respectable people.
At first, many people even really believed that the couple did not have much conflict with each other to break up decently, and some even speculated that it was not their reasonable tax avoidance...
However, in the upper class, the people who love the husband and wife have been operating for decades, and the children are extremely anxious to divorce as soon as they become adults, and they have to divorce this marriage with heavy losses...
No matter how you look at it, it looks like it has an earth-shattering melon.
Sure enough, with the first hearing, more and more revelations about the Gates couple were exposed.
The deeper the grill, the more surprised...
If these revelations are true, it can only be said that Bill Gates has been able to maintain the image of a gentle and kind genius philanthropist for the past few decades, and can maintain the image of a "loving couple", which is definitely the power of money.
If it were not for this divorce, global reporters would have dug deep enough, not knowing how long these revelations would have been concealed...
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="25" > first hearing</h1>
On May 14, the gates divorced the men for the first time.
They involve splitting up $140 billion, and melinda could theoretically split half of it, and could even become the world's second-richest woman after L'Oréal's heiress.
The divorce of the rich is not simple, because the end of their marriage may also lead to changes in the asset map, affecting the company's stock price.
At the first hearing, the application documents are generally exchanged with each other, represented by the lawyers of both parties, and the parties are not required to appear in court.
However, the lineup of lawyers on both sides is also very exciting: those who have accepted Trump's divorce case, Weinstein's divorce case, the New York mayor's divorce case, the former French president's divorce case...
But most notably, they each hired a well-known lawyer who had handled the divorce of Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man in 2019.
Records show that as early as October 2019, a few months after the end of Bezos's divorce case, they had consulted about the divorce.
In other words, if there are other rich people who can't help but get a divorce recently, they have to wait in line first.
Because until April 2022, before the bill Gates divorce verdict came out, the world's top divorce lawyers had an appointment...
However, although the final result is almost a year away, Melinda has received a lot of breakup fees so far.
On the day of the official divorce, Bill Gates transferred nearly $2.4 billion worth of shares to Melinda. After the first hearing, Gates again transferred $851 million worth of shares to Melinda.
Is it the normal divorce process, is it indebted, or do you want her not to burst more material?
Just these days of confirmation of the account, it is already more than 19 billion yuan of property, equivalent to Shuang Zijie's 25 years of work.
But for the $140 billion the two are about to split, it's still a dime a dozen...
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="214" > loveless marriage</h1>
For decades, the Bill Gates couple have been a loving couple and have been a global model couple.
You know, after 27 years of marriage, they have been expressing support, gratitude, and love for each other almost every year.
On her wedding anniversary last year, Melinda posted photos of her dancing to thank her husband for dancing with her all his life.
On Valentine's Day, it was Gates' turn to post a photo of each other, declaring: "I can't find a better partner than her in the journey of life." ”
Love is very touching, but now we know that in 2019, they consulted about divorce and put it on the agenda...
Rich people can really act, can't they?
After people found that the feelings of the two were "broken", and then pushed back, they found that... Maybe it's not this year, but every year before.
From the very beginning of marriage, the marriage of the two may be "loveless".
A previous tweet mentioned an important person: Gates' ex-girlfriend, Ann Winblyde.
They love each other without gates' permission.
Before getting married, Gates also made a special call to ask his ex-girlfriend for permission, and Wimbled gave her approval: "She is a very smart girl, which is a good choice for you." ”
It's reminiscent of Charles, Camilla, and Diana's entangled love affair, the same unsupportive mother, a strong and important ex, and a "suitable" marriage partner.
...... The ex-girlfriend's mission is over.
According to the New York Post, Bill Gates once made public their marriage to the golfers he played golf with.
"My marriage to Melinda is loveless."
They've been living separately for some time.
Melinda's friend said divorce was a difficult decision for Melinda, a devout Catholic.
"Melinda hopes to get a certificate of invalidation from the Vatican after the end of the legal marriage."
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" data-track="215" > wild party lovers</h1>
A former employee of the Gates charity told The New York Post: "The Gates divorce didn't surprise me. ”
They say the biggest disagreement, or main dispute, between the two men is about Epstein.
Melinda is displeased with her husband's intimate dealings with notorious sex offenders.
But Bill Gates went his own way, completely ignoring her advice and continuing to meet Epstein.
According to the Daily Beast, some of the partiers said:
It wasn't an exaggeration, bill Gates felt, and going to Epstein's party was a chance for him to get a respite from his marriage.
It was his way of getting rid of Melinda. ”
"Gates expressed dissatisfaction with his marriage in front of Epstein, who had advised him to end his 'toxic' marriage with Melinda."
Apparently, Gates felt it was more important to go to Epstein for advice than Melinda's advice...
Although Bill Gates claimed that he had not attended Epstein's kind of party, Epstein is now mysteriously dead and untested.
But...... Dailymail only released Wallace who had written a biography of Gates (not the wallace who made a big news), and this Mr. Wallace broke the news:
"Gates has never been a 'tech guy' and his lust is an open secret in the industry."
In 1997, Wallace wrote a published biography of Gates, "Speeding: Bill Gates' Race to Control Cyberspace," which referred to his chaotic private life.
Since he was at Harvard University, he has often visited Boston's red light district, what strip shows, erotic performances, nude nightclubs... They're all old customers.
Even after starting a relationship with Melinda, this life still goes on.
In an interview, former Microsoft executive Raberny also confirmed that Gates likes to party.
He often went to the kind of "wild" party, such as working two or three days in the dark with other Microsoft employees, going to a nude nightclub to take the strippers home, swimming naked in the mansion pool, playing crazy and relaxing.
In the former executive's view, this behavior is not out of line. However, in Melinda's view, this must be out of line: many people confirmed that she had broken up with Gates for a year.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" data-track="216" > male bosses who sexually harassed</h1>
The playboy in life can't reach the workplace and suddenly converge. After all, he is the big boss of Microsoft, and it is naturally very "convenient" to hunt yan in the workplace.
In 1999, a female Microsoft employee came forward to testify, but the storm was later suppressed, and no more scandals were reported.
But after this divorce, there was a big melon again.
As you may know, in March 2020, Bill Gates announced his retirement, retiring from the microsoft board, and the board of directors of Buffett's companies.
It is not surprising that he retired at this age, but he was only re-elected to the board of directors 3 months ago? There was really a retreat, why not raise it at that time?
Foreign media broke the news: This is Microsoft's board to drive him away!
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that in the second half of 2019, Microsoft received a report from a female Microsoft engineer claiming that Bill Gates tried to establish an inappropriate intimate relationship with the company's employees.
She accused Bill Gates of having sex with her in a letter, so Microsoft hired an outside law firm to review the matter.
Foreign media broke the news: As the investigation of the incident became more and more clear, Microsoft's board of directors believed that he was no longer suitable to serve as a board member, and Gates needed to withdraw from the board.
In order to save face for Bill Gates, they will ask Gates to resign and retire himself, and let the investigation not continue.
Otherwise, it will be too ugly.
The New York Times said: At work, Gates has always despised Melinda, pursued the female subordinates who worked for him in Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, and invited them.
He would make very personal, ambiguous invitations at work, such as telling female subordinates: "I want to see you, can you have dinner with me?" ”
— although he would tell them, "If it makes you uncomfortable, pretend it never happened." ”
But six former and current employees who worked for Gates testify that he created an uncomfortable workplace environment.
While a Gates spokesman denied the relationship between the resignation and the investigation, denies Gates' actions to belittle his marriage at any time, or belittle Melinda, and also denies claims that employees were abused.
But...... As more and more details come out, people still have to re-examine the rich man who has been in a good image for decades.
Wallace mentioned that why Bill Gates's chaotic private life has always been mentioned, but it has never been noticed?
In the mouth of the journalist who once wrote a biography of Gates, the reason is simple:
"Those well-known media are afraid to report because technology news needs to rely on big companies like Microsoft to provide news."
This is probably the behavior of the rich: even if there are countless out-of-the-ordinary behaviors, as long as you have capital, you can block all the news.
Perhaps, as the divorce case gets deeper and deeper, there will be more "big melons" that will come out...