# Bill and Melinda Gates getting a divorce

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 4, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-and-melinda-gates-getting-a-divorce/941379 "2021-05-04T16:36:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2021, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-and-melinda-gates-getting-a-divorce/941379/101 "2021-05-17T01:38:42Z")

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> On at least a few occasions, Mr. Gates pursued women who worked for him at Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to people with direct knowledge of his overtures.
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> In 2019, Microsoft’s board of directors, on which Mr. Gates sat, opened an investigation into one of those cases after being notified that he had “sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” Frank X. Shaw, a Microsoft spokesman, said on Sunday. The board hired a law firm to investigate.

> **[Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior...](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html)**
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> Melinda French Gates voiced concerns about her husband’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and a harassment claim against his money manager. He also had an affair with an employee.

Bill resigned from the Microsoft board–but supposedly not for this but to spend more time with his foundation.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-and-melinda-gates-getting-a-divorce/941379/102 "2021-08-03T13:14:34Z")

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It’s done.

> **[Bill and Melinda Gates have finalized their divorce | CNN Business](https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/tech/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-finalized/index.html)**
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> Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates are officially divorced, after a judge approved their split on Monday.

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