Melinda Gates Resigns from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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46 points·goeldhru··25 comments

I would imagine it's difficult to stay deeply involved in something like that with one's ex.

People get divorced for many reasons but generally they don't want to be around each other any more and being co-chairs of a big foundation would make that pretty impossible. Business (or charitable) partnerships are like marriages in a lot of ways.

I've heard (in the worst kind of hearsay way) from people that are only distantly in the Microsoft/Non-profit circle that Melinda could be largely credited for getting Bill to take philanthropy seriously.

If true, that in itself has done a lot of good for the world.

I'd believe it. Bill always struck me as being pretty anti-social and even sociopathic. Not that I know him or anything close to that.

You're just judging him based on the terrible things he did in the open. There may have been a time in private where he petted a kitten or something. We'll never know.

Yeah, that's a stretch.

I was wondering and found this in the article:

> The organization’s name will change to the Gates Foundation, with Bill Gates, her ex-husband and Microsoft founder, becoming the sole chair.

I didn't even know they got divorced!

It was a fallout of all the Jeffrey Epstein news.

What is the context there?

Bill met with Epstein on multiple occasions, after Epstein already had a conviction, and Melinda has cited this as a contributing factor to the divorce: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/melinda-gates-jeffr...

Epstein introduced Gates to a woman he allegedly had an affair with.

Eastern, introduced and woman. Those are three words you don't want to read in the same sentence.

Freudian slip.

Bill fucked up, hard.

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