{"id":478660,"date":"2021-05-06T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478660"},"modified":"2021-05-06T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T19:05:55","slug":"bill-and-melinda-gates-divorce-not-a-friendly-split-a-long-time-in-the-making-sources-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-and-melinda-gates-divorce-not-a-friendly-split-a-long-time-in-the-making-sources-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill And Melinda Gates Divorce \u2018Not A Friendly Split,\u2019 \u2018A Long Time In The Making,\u2019 Sources Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-and-melinda-gates-divorce-not-a-friendly-split-a-long-time-in-the-making-sources-claim%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=478660&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BillGates.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>While Bill and Melinda Gates have publicly maintained that their divorce will be an amicable one, sources close to the couple claim this will not be a \u201cfriendly split\u201d and that it was a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2021\/05\/06\/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-island-angry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a>, sources said that Melinda Gates planned to announce the divorce all the way back in March when she allegedly rented Calivigny Island in Grenada for $132,000 a night for privacy purposes. Though the Gates\u2019 children and their significant others were invited, Bill reportedly was not welcome due to the \u201cconsiderable amount of acrimony associated with the split.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re told virtually everyone in the family took Melinda\u2019s side,\u201d reported TMZ. \u201cAnother way of putting it \u2026 we\u2019re told they were very angry at Bill, and that\u2019s why he wasn\u2019t invited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TMZ concluded that the big \u201ctakeaway\u201d from sources is that Melinda Gates is furious with Bill for past deeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo here\u2019s the takeaway,\u201d the outlet alleged. \u201cFirst, we\u2019re told this was not a friendly split. We\u2019re told Melinda and most of the family were furious at Bill for various things they claim he had done. Second \u2026 it\u2019s clear this divorce has been a long time in the making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When announcing their split this week, the couple said in a joint statement that they would continue to run the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation together, one of the largest charity organizations in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,\u201d they said. \u201cOver the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives. We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives. We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.4461538461538\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/padmHSgWGc\">pic.twitter.com\/padmHSgWGc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Gates (@BillGates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillGates\/status\/1389316412259270657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Details as to what led to the split remain scant at this point, though a TIME article in 1997 noted that Bill Gates would spend one weekend a year with his ex-girlfriend, Ann Winblad, a software entrepreneur, and venture capitalist, per an \u201carrangement\u201d with his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven now, Gates has an arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive,\u201d the outlet alleged. \u201cEvery spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology,\u201d Gates said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-gates-has-no-prenuptial-agreement-130-billion-fortune-in-play-report\">reported<\/a>, Bill and Melinda Gates had no pre-nuptial agreement and that his $130 billion fortune is now in play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-gates-has-no-prenuptial-agreement-130-billion-fortune-in-play-report\">Bill Gates Has No Prenuptial Agreement, $130 Billion Fortune In Play:\u00a0Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Bill and Melinda Gates have publicly maintained that their divorce will be an amicable one, sources close to the couple claim this will not be a \u201cfriendly split\u201d and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277477,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BillGates.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Bill And Melinda Gates Divorce \u2018Not A Friendly Split,\u2019 \u2018A Long Time In The Making,\u2019 Sources Claim","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/BillGates.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Bill And Melinda Gates Divorce \u2018Not A Friendly Split,\u2019 \u2018A Long Time In The Making,\u2019 Sources Claim","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}