Invoice Gates’ ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, isn’t shedding sleep over her ex-husband’s current public feedback about their divorce.
Earlier this yr, the Microsoft co-founder not too long ago confessed to The Occasions of London that their divorce was “depressing” for each of them for “at the very least two years.”
When requested to rank his failures, Gates didn’t hesitate to position the top of their 27-year marriage on the high. “The divorce belongs on the high of the listing,” he acknowledged in Jan. “There are others however none that matter.”
“That was the error I most remorse,” he added.
Now, months later in her personal candid interview with Elle journal, Melinda was dismissive when requested about Invoice Gates calling their break up his biggest remorse.
“You’ve clearly Googled greater than I’ve,” the billionaire philanthropist responded, whereas, in accordance to journalist Jessica Bennet, perfunctorily rolling her eyes on the point out of headlines speculating whether or not the previous couple may reconcile.
“Look, divorces are painful, and it’s not one thing I would want on any household.”
Melinda additionally advised the reporter that leaving her marriage to Invoice was concurrently one of many hardest and most vital issues she’s ever completed.
The couple’s separation turned public in 2021 after reviews surfaced about Gates’ questionable habits, together with an extramarital affair with a Microsoft worker.
Whereas Gates dwells on previous regrets, French Gates has shifted her focus to points she considers way more consequential.
“Why do we have now Viagra and Cialis and no matter else is on the market, and why have we not checked out menopause, one thing each lady will undergo?” she requested, highlighting the disparity in funding for ladies’s well being analysis.
She’s additionally enthusiastic about getting girls elected to workplace in any respect ranges and addressing the overturning of Roe v. Wade. French Gates, an Impartial who endorsed Kamala Harris’s presidential marketing campaign with reported donations exceeding $13 million, has clearly outlined her post-divorce priorities.
Melinda French Gates would not view her divorce as a miscalculation. pic.twitter.com/fNRON25t8B
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The Day by day Mail’s readers weren’t shy about weighing in on Gates’s confession, with many siding firmly with French Gates.
One merely acknowledged, “Eye rolling with you!”
“He screwed up. She’s the large winner!” declared one other reader, referencing the reported $12.5 billion French Gates obtained within the divorce settlement, in response to Philanthropy.com.
One reader drew parallels between Gates and one other tech billionaire, noting, “Invoice Gates and Jeff Bezos – each had first wives who had been high quality girls. They had been sensible, self-sufficient, emotionally grounded, and good moms. Each males thought of ‘titans’ cheated on them with lesser high quality girls. Go determine!”
Bezos ended his 25-year marriage to MacKenzie Scott in 2019 amid reviews of his affair with TV character Lauren Sánchez. He and Sánchez at the moment are engaged and allegedly planning a summer time 2025 marriage ceremony.
Equally, Invoice has reportedly been courting Paula Hurd, widow of former Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, since 2023.
Invoice Gates confirms new relationship along with his new girlfriend, Paula Hurd after Melinda Gates’ divorce pic.twitter.com/ni91eMFS87
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One commenter speculated about Gates’s true regrets, “So he thought he was buying and selling her in for a youthful/extra compliant/ or no matter mannequin, after which discovered the substitute solely thought he was cool and worthy when he was married. His solely remorse is that he’s completely and utterly alone, and everybody else is prospering with out him.”
Melinda has additionally moved on and went public with entrepreneur Philip Vaughn in October 2024, suggesting she has certainly superior from what she describes in her upcoming memoir, “The Subsequent Day,” as a painful however mandatory life transition.
“The Subsequent Day,” set to publish in April, will cowl varied life transitions, together with her divorce and her departure from the Gates Basis after virtually 25 years.
Melinda revealed she had panic assaults simply desirous about ending the wedding, but her household proved supportive — together with her youngest daughter, Phoebe, who was nonetheless a youngster on the time, and her Catholic dad and mom, who’d been married 63 years.