Bill and Melinda Gates sold shares of Apple and Twitter

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The shares were sold on March 31, just over a month before Bill and Melinda announced their divorce on social media on May 3. According to the Barron’s, the Foundation held 1 million shares of Apple at the end of 2020. In relation to Twitter, just over 272 thousand shares were sold at the time.

The equivalent sum of all the shares can reach hundreds of millions of dollars, at a time when both were already discussing about the divorce process. On May 3 itself, when the split broke out in the media, the lawsuit was referred to the American court and Melinda received nearly $ 2 billion in shares from companies she and Gates were investing on the same day.

Now, with the process underway – a hearing has already taken place on May 14 – the estimated fortune of $ 146 billion will be shared between the ex-couple, who has three children together. Outside the American court, Melinda has already taken about $ 3 billion in shares of Gates, and is set to become one of the richest women in the world.

The split was marked by scandals involving Bill Gates, after Melinda said their relationship was already “broken”. Last week, Satya Nadella said that Microsoft will continue to investigate the extramarital affair that Gates had with an employee in the early 2000s. continue with the 27-year marriage.

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