American tycoons Bill and Melinda Gates suddenly announced the news of their divorce in the early hours of May 4, Beijing time, after 27 years of marriage, Bill and Melinda Gates announced on Monday that they have filed for divorce, MSN.com reported on May 10. According to Forbes, Bill Gates ranks fourth in the world with a net worth of $129.7 billion, and they also own one of the world’s largest charitable funds. Everyone was speculating how their vast fortune would be divided, and then, in a joint petition for the dissolution of their marriage, the couple reached an early agreement on how to divide their assets, according to which Melinda will split her net worth of nearly $130 billion equally with Bill Gates, in addition to receiving $2.4 billion worth of securities assets.
In a statement, Bill Gates wrote.
“Our separation was not accidental and the divorce was a carefully considered matter. We have made many efforts to repair our relationship, but we have finally reached the point of divorce. In those 27 years, we had and raised three children who were so incredible to be around. We set up a foundation that is now located all over the world and many people are living healthy lives with the help of the foundation. After we separated, we still hold a supreme sense of faith in such a great foundation cause and we will continue on the path of building the foundation, being able to be colleagues, but going back to being husband and wife is out of the question. We’re starting a new life that will hopefully give us and our family some more privacy.”
In addition, there are many celebrities divorce costs are also very high, of course not to the level of 100 billion dollars, but also as much as 10 million dollars, converted into RMB is also properly over 100 million. Madonna and her ex-husband director Ritchie divorce, the ex-husband to get Madonna huge breakup fee of $ 76 million.
There is no shortage of such divorce breakup cases in the entertainment industry, the director of Titanic and Terminator actress Linda, Hollywood had the marriage as a fairy tale, but the marriage lasted only eighteen short months, in 1999, the two divorced, Linda received half of the box office proceeds of the Titanic film – $50 million.
In addition to business and entertainment, sports legend Michael Jordan and the Chicago bank clerk had three children between them after eighteen years of marriage, and also had $350 million in assets, and after the divorce, Juanita received a hefty $130 million divorce settlement. I wonder if these tycoons pay such a high price to end a marriage, meat pains. The census was released today, is it possible that marriage costs money divorce also costs, even more expensive than marriage, after all, the wedding bride price is more expensive, buy a house to buy a car also has a limit, these rich people divorce easily hundreds of millions of dollars. Everyone should be single?
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