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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.  :roll:

...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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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?  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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