French Gate MelindaThe former wife of the American billionaire and the Bill Gates Bill, recently appeared in news for various reasons. From finally Philip isMelinda actively creates headlines one by one.
Currently, Melinda, 60 years old, in the news from the launch of her new book “The next day: transitions, changes and moving forward”, which was released on April 15, 2025. “There was much that I saw in my life,” she wrote at the beginning of her book.
Melinda revealed various personal data to which the world has not yet been loam. From a trip to Mexico, where she told Bill that she wanted to start living separately before the panic, which she encountered after the divorce, she seems to have written that she creates new headlines for a minute.
Writing about her life after posting in the book, Melinda shared an interesting and emotional anecdote about her wedding video. She shared that she watched her wedding video every year near the wedding anniversary with Bill Gates, which was on January 1, 1994.
The couple stands in front of a multi -tiered wedding cake, but “Bill does not know what he should do,” Melinda wrote.
“Instead of cutting one piece and feeding me one bite like any other groom in the story, he thought he had to cut a piece for everyone. When I realized he was doing, I laughed so much,” she continued.
Although he originally turned out to be confused, “because he could say that he got something wrong,” he also started laughing, just because she was.
“He fixes so many things I liked in him,” she wrote, noting that “observing it leads me to tears.”
Why did Bill and Melinda Gates divorced?

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Recently, in an interview, Bill Gates shared that his divorce was “the biggest regret” in his life. However, Melinda’s divorce was “something necessary”. “If you can’t live your values in your most intimate relationship, it was necessary,” she said.
The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2021 because they can no longer “grow together as a couple in the next stage of life.” Bill later confessed that he caused a “pain” in his family, whereas Melinda hinted in an interview with CBS Mornings that the meetings with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were a factor of her decision to leave.
According to rumors, Bill meet Paul HardThe widow of the former Oracle CEO Mark Hard. Meanwhile, Melinda also continued her life, and she was noticed with Philip Von, technological entrepreneur and founder of Tavour, a shipping company.