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Melinda Gates Net Worth: How Rich is Bill Gates Ex-Wife Actually?

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3 years ago

June 24, 2021

Melinda Gates is an American billionaire and philanthropist. She has worked as a general manager at Microsoft until 1996. Melinda co-founded the world’s largest private charitable organization, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2015. On May 3, 2021, Melinda announced that she would be ending 27 years of married life with Bill Gates. As of 2022, Melinda Gates net worth is estimated up to be around $6.2 billion.

Full Name	Melinda Ann French
Birth Date	August 15, 1964
Birth Place	Dallas, Texas, United States
Profession	Philanthropist
Husband	Bill Gates
Net Worth	$6.2 billion

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Early life

Melinda Gates was born Melinda Ann French on the 15th of August, 1964 in Dallas, Texas, United States. She was born as the second child of parents, Raymond Joseph French Jr. and Elaine Agnes Amerland. She has an elder sister and 2 young brothers. Her father, Raymond is an aerospace engineer, and her mother, Elaine is a homemaker.

Regarding her education detail, she has studied at St. Monica Catholic School. She was the highest rank student in her school days. Melinda developed an interest to learn a BASIC programming language and computer games after she was introduced to Apple II by her school teacher, Mrs. Bauer and, her father.

Melinda received a University graduation degree in 1982 from Ursuline Academy of Dallas. Later, in 1986 she held a University degree from Duke University, majoring in computer science and economics. In 1987, she earned an MBA degree from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Melinda Gates Net Worth & Career

She had her first job as a mathematics and computer programming tutor. Following graduation, she started working as a marketing manager at Microsoft. There, she was involved in the development of many multimedia products like Cinemania, Publisher, Encarta, Microsoft Bob, Works (Macintosh), Money, and Word.

Melinda was promoted to a new position as General Manager of Information Products in the early 1990s. She served the position until 1996, after which, she left Microsoft to focus on his family. From 1996 to 2003, she worked as one of the members of Duke University’s Board of Trustees.

In addition to that, she also worked as the board of directors at the health and beauty care products, Drugstore.com. In August 2006, she left the Drugstore and started giving more priority to philanthropy projects. She has been working on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a long time now, which was founded in 2000.

Through the foundation, Melinda and Bill Gates are working on a wide range of activities like global health and poverty alleviation. Melinda and Bill donated $28 billion amount to the Foundation in 2014. According to the official website of the foundation, the pair has spent around $53.8 billion on various philanthropic activities.

Melinda Gates Personal Life

Melinda Gates is married to Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates since 1994. She started dating Bill in 1987. Melinda had her first meeting with him at New York’s trade fair. The couple tied the knot in a private ceremony in Lanai, Hawaii. Together, they share 3 kids; a daughter Jennifer, and two sons, Phoebe and Rory.

On May 3, 2021, Melinda finally decided to call off her 27 years of marriage. She officially announced her separation from Bill Gates through a post on Twitter. Melinda, in the last sentence, wrote as “We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life”. Even after separation. she would continue to work together with Bill on the Foundation.