WASHINGTON — From muddy streets in South Africa’s townships to cocktail parties at Davos — Bill and Melinda Gates came as a pair.
Together, they built a charitable empire through Bill’s technology company Microsoft and the massive non-profit they co-founded and co-chair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
And when it came time to announce Monday the end of their 27-year marriage, they did that as a pair too in a joint statement posted to their respective Twitter accounts at exactly the same moment.
Gates, 65, summed it up like this in a 2019 Netflix documentary series: “In the case of Melinda, it is truly an equal partner.”
“She’s a lot like me in that she is opt…
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