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Bill Gates, Melinda Gates | The Gates couple’s unusual agreement: Got to go on a weekend trip with their ex-girlfriend every year

Bill Gates is said to have had a close relationship with his ex, even after he got married.

On Monday this week, the world’s richest man, Bill Gates (65), announced that he and his wife of 27 years, Melinda Gates (56), were to divorce. He shared the news in a post on Twitter.

Initially, the 65-year-old wrote the following:

“After much thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have come to the decision to end our marriage.”

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The couple will continue to work together in The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which works to improve basic health care and reduce extreme poverty, but beyond this work, it does not look like the two will have much to do with each other in the future.

After the divorce news became known, rumors have swirled that the tone between the two is not very good.

Weekend trip with the ex

According to People, who has had access to the court documents, it was Melinda Gates who filed for divorce.

The 56-year-old is said to have written during the reason for the divorce that their marriage is “ruined” and “impossible to save”, and the documents also show that the two had no marriage pact.

What they had, however, was a somewhat unusual agreement that Bill Gates could spend a long weekend with his ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad (70) every year. It writes among others Business Insider.

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In 1997, the Microsoft founder appeared in a major portrait interview Time Magazine, where it was revealed that he still had a close relationship with his ex-girlfriend when he found happiness with the woman who was to become his future wife. In fact, they were so close that Bill Gates picked up the phone and called Winblad to ask what she thought before he proposed.

Gates got “go” from the ex, and married Melinda. But still he kept his friendship with Winblad.

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– We can play mini golf at the same time as we discuss biotechnology. We share thoughts about the world and each other, Gates said of their annual weekend getaways in the 1997 Time interview.

How long they continued this tradition is not publicly known, according to Business Insider.

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– Bad mood

After the divorce news became known earlier this week, many questions have arisen.

What happens to their enormous fortune? How should the couple distribute the properties and their assets? How did the kids take the news? And what is really the cause of the rupture?

In addition, as mentioned, there have been rumors that there is not too good an atmosphere between Bill and Melinda Gates.

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Transfer TMZ told a source earlier this week that the divorce should actually have become known in March, and that Melinda Gates had on that occasion rented a private island in the Caribbean to get away from the media pressure that would follow. The couple’s three children and their girlfriends were also to be present.

One who was not invited, according to TMZ, was Bill Gates.

“We are told that everyone in the family took Melinda’s side. That they were very angry with Bill, and that he was not invited », writes TMZ.

The source is said to have told the celebrity website that there were still problems that were not solved when the trip was planned, but that Melinda left anyway – and that the advertising was then postponed.

“We are told it was not a friendly offense. Melinda and most of the family were furious at Bill for various things they claim he has done. And it’s obvious they’re been watching this divorce for a while », wrote the celebrity website recently.

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