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- Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, announced he and his wife, Melinda, divorced in 2021.
- Gates married Melinda French in 1994 after the two met at work.
- The two ran the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which had an endowment of $49.8 billion in 2019.
Bill and Melinda Gates ended their marriage, but the foundation they started together remains in tact.