Bill and Melinda Gates $130bn SPLIT: Microsoft founder's wife, 56, has filed for divorce t.co/qtDm4JfirN pic.twitter.com/HyS2pguNBD
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Bill hires Warren Buffett’s 97-year-old lawyer pal in $130billion split from Melinda: Gates enlists help of ‘the broadest thinker he’s ever encountered’ as it’s revealed there’s no prenup and 27-year marriage is ‘irretrievably broken’
Bill Gates, 65, announced on Twitter on Monday that he and his 56-year-old wife Melinda are divorcing
He has hired Charles T. Munger, a 97-year-old L.A.-based business lawyer and philanthropist
Both of them worked at Berkshire Hathaway; Gates served on the board until May 2020, Munger is a VP there
Munger is not a family lawyer – his expertise is in business, real estate and investing
In the 1950s, he lost all his money to his first wife, Nancy; he recovered to become a billionaire
Melinda described her marriage as ‘irretrievably broken’ in a divorce petition viewed by DailyMail.com
The petition revealed the couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement when they wed in 1994
Gates was already a billionaire; he founded Microsoft in 1975 and made his first billion in 1987
Since then they amassed a combined net worth of $130billion and raised three children together
Their eldest daughter Jennifer, 25, responded to the news on Instagram and revealed the family has been going through a ‘challenging stretch of time’