Bill and Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years

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I’m willing to bet that he is just NEVER fully present if it isn’t work related. At some point, that has to get old.

[Anonymous]

Let's not act like this marriage was ever based on love. She was some MBA marketing striver—and let's be honest...conniver—working at Microsoft and he was already a multi-billionaire. She started banging her CEO. I guarantee she's just jealous of Jobs' widow and Bezos's ex, how they are blowing their husbands' billions, and she craves those same sort of PR puff pieces.

...or these high-powered divorces are just some scheme for the couples to dump tens of billions in stock and avoid Biden's tax raises.

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Anonymous wrote:Rumors from years ago is that Bill would go on party boats/trips with other very, very rich people with lots of escorts on board. Imagine Epstein parties but the women are all of age.

Kind of like this, but more private and higher-end:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum

I've read that same about that former dorky Google pres. Eric something.

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I think it's probably been over for awhile and they had a tacit agreement she would stay until the youngest was out of the house. If so, it won't be messy.

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I'm not trying to be harsh, but is she transitioning? She's become very masculine lately. Is that all menopause? She was pretty and very feminine 20 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet that he is just NEVER fully present if it isn’t work related. At some point, that has to get old.

This would be my guess as well. Seems like they have enough $ and properties that they could just live separate lives (and their kids are grown). Maybe he is controlling?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet that he is just NEVER fully present if it isn’t work related. At some point, that has to get old.

This would be my guess as well. Seems like they have enough $ and properties that they could just live separate lives (and their kids are grown). Maybe he is controlling?

+1. I can't believe people are saying this is like Bezos.

Very sad but I think this is the likely explanation. I think they will likely have an extremely amicable split and continue to run the foundation together.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's not act like this marriage was ever based on love. She was some MBA marketing striver—and let's be honest...conniver—working at Microsoft and he was already a multi-billionaire. She started banging her CEO. I guarantee she's just jealous of Jobs' widow and Bezos's ex, how they are blowing their husbands' billions, and she craves those same sort of PR puff pieces.

...or these high-powered divorces are just some scheme for the couples to dump tens of billions in stock and avoid Biden's tax raises.

That’s what I thought until I saw some of her speeches and interviews together. Honestly he could have chosen prettier, younger, and dumber, so yeah he was rich but I think there was love there.

So I am bummed about this! But I wish them both the best.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's not act like this marriage was ever based on love. She was some MBA marketing striver—and let's be honest...conniver—working at Microsoft and he was already a multi-billionaire. She started banging her CEO. I guarantee she's just jealous of Jobs' widow and Bezos's ex, how they are blowing their husbands' billions, and she craves those same sort of PR puff pieces.

...or these high-powered divorces are just some scheme for the couples to dump tens of billions in stock and avoid Biden's tax raises.

Huh? She's a computer science grad too; yeah she happens to have an MBA as well but she was hardly a hair flipping recruiting babe in the HR department of Microsoft.

Though she has said in the past how desperately she wanted children. Here was a guy who was a dork (a rich one at that) who was interested in her -- I think she like so many others -- convinced herself he is the one, we'll have a good life, he's a good guy, he'll provide, I'll be a mom . . . and ultimately they had little in common. She has said before that he was totally disengaged with the family even when the kids were little because it was all about throwing himself into one project or another; she had to "train him" on work life balance. I have a feeling that he was never really present for anything besides work and now at 56 with the kids grown and launched, she's like I don't need this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m willing to bet that he is just NEVER fully present if it isn’t work related. At some point, that has to get old.

This would be my guess as well. Seems like they have enough $ and properties that they could just live separate lives (and their kids are grown). Maybe he is controlling?

+1. I can't believe people are saying this is like Bezos.

Very sad but I think this is the likely explanation. I think they will likely have an extremely amicable split and continue to run the foundation together.

Oh and I doubt he is controlling. She probably wants to date. Maybe he does too. And you can't really date if you are married to the richest man in the world no matter what the arrangement.

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Seriously? Why?

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After 27 years of marriage, why doesn't a couple just stick it out to the end? What's the point?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's not act like this marriage was ever based on love. She was some MBA marketing striver—and let's be honest...conniver—working at Microsoft and he was already a multi-billionaire. She started banging her CEO. I guarantee she's just jealous of Jobs' widow and Bezos's ex, how they are blowing their husbands' billions, and she craves those same sort of PR puff pieces.

...or these high-powered divorces are just some scheme for the couples to dump tens of billions in stock and avoid Biden's tax raises.

That’s what I thought until I saw some of her speeches and interviews together. Honestly he could have chosen prettier, younger, and dumber, so yeah he was rich but I think there was love there.

So I am bummed about this! But I wish them both the best.

They married when he was going through all that anti-trust stuff at Microsoft in the mid and late 90s, right? It would have been bad optics to marry some model. So he married some pushy striver in marketing at Microsoft. Impossible to say this was love when he was I assume already worth $50 billion when they first met.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's not act like this marriage was ever based on love. She was some MBA marketing striver—and let's be honest...conniver—working at Microsoft and he was already a multi-billionaire. She started banging her CEO. I guarantee she's just jealous of Jobs' widow and Bezos's ex, how they are blowing their husbands' billions, and she craves those same sort of PR puff pieces.

...or these high-powered divorces are just some scheme for the couples to dump tens of billions in stock and avoid Biden's tax raises.

Huh? She's a computer science grad too; yeah she happens to have an MBA as well but she was hardly a hair flipping recruiting babe in the HR department of Microsoft.

Though she has said in the past how desperately she wanted children. Here was a guy who was a dork (a rich one at that) who was interested in her -- I think she like so many others -- convinced herself he is the one, we'll have a good life, he's a good guy, he'll provide, I'll be a mom . . . and ultimately they had little in common. She has said before that he was totally disengaged with the family even when the kids were little because it was all about throwing himself into one project or another; she had to "train him" on work life balance. I have a feeling that he was never really present for anything besides work and now at 56 with the kids grown and launched, she's like I don't need this.

I can see this, though I think if I were her -- with all the money I could possibly want and more, a fulfilling work in running the foundation, and children grown -- I'd just live a separate life. Though I guess even ultra-rich women get lonely?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's not act like this marriage was ever based on love. She was some MBA marketing striver—and let's be honest...conniver—working at Microsoft and he was already a multi-billionaire. She started banging her CEO. I guarantee she's just jealous of Jobs' widow and Bezos's ex, how they are blowing their husbands' billions, and she craves those same sort of PR puff pieces.

...or these high-powered divorces are just some scheme for the couples to dump tens of billions in stock and avoid Biden's tax raises.

Huh? She's a computer science grad too; yeah she happens to have an MBA as well but she was hardly a hair flipping recruiting babe in the HR department of Microsoft.

Though she has said in the past how desperately she wanted children. Here was a guy who was a dork (a rich one at that) who was interested in her -- I think she like so many others -- convinced herself he is the one, we'll have a good life, he's a good guy, he'll provide, I'll be a mom . . . and ultimately they had little in common. She has said before that he was totally disengaged with the family even when the kids were little because it was all about throwing himself into one project or another; she had to "train him" on work life balance. I have a feeling that he was never really present for anything besides work and now at 56 with the kids grown and launched, she's like I don't need this.

I can see this, though I think if I were her -- with all the money I could possibly want and more, a fulfilling work in running the foundation, and children grown -- I'd just live a separate life. Though I guess even ultra-rich women get lonely?

Yeah I imagine she could stay married to him and carve out any kind of life she wanted -- go buy a house in Hawaii and live there; jet set around the world etc. I imagine it is about loneliness though. She probably wants to go places and do things with her partner and her partner in this case doesn't want to do anything besides work because that's what's full filling to him. She may just be at the point where it's time to live a little, not just continue to live how Bill wants and do stuff alone. I wouldn't be shocked if we heard within a year that there's a steady boyfriend.