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The Real Reason Melinda French Gates Walked Away With $7.8 Billion—and Left the Gates Foundation Behind

Summary by Inc.
Bill Gates chose not to divide the Gates Foundation, instead funding Melinda’s new philanthropy with $7.8 billion in personal wealth.

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For Melinda French Gates the most important thing is the family: its rites, its affections and those ties, supposedly indestructible, that she lived as a child and that she wanted to repeat when she created her own.This love for home is very clear in her memoirs, The next day; her response to the news bomb that marked her divorce from Bill Gates, after 27 years of what seemed like a model marriage.Keep reading...

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Inc. broke the news in on Friday, March 13, 2026.
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