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To confront the “massive global challenges” the world is experiencing, Bill Gates announced on Wednesday that he will donate $20 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In a statement, Gates said that the foundation, which he and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates founded in 2000, now aims to spend $9 billion annually to fund initiatives and causes that prevent pandemics, lessen child fatalities, eradicate diseases, combat climate change, and promote gender equality.
“These innovations will not come in time to avoid the problems altogether, but the faster we move, the less people will suffer,” Gates said. “For many people including myself this is the most concrete way of contributing, even when it seems modest compared to the scale of the problems. Focusing on being part of the solution is better than giving up in despair.”
With a net worth of $114 billion, he ranks as the fourth-wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg. Gates said Wednesday that he plans to move off the world’s richest list one day.
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Melinda Gates has revealed how ex-husband Bill Gates’ relationship with the “abhorrent” Jeffrey Epstein led to difficulties in their marriage. Speaking to Gayle King on CBS Mornings, Melinda admitted that infidelity and Bill’s ties with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein played contributing factors in their divorce.“As I said it’s not one thing, it was many things. But I did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no,” said Melinda while talking about her split from Bill.
“I also met Jeffrey Epstein exactly one time,” she shared. “Yes, because I wanted to see who this man was. And I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards. So you know, my heart breaks for these young women because that’s how I felt, and here I’m an older woman. My god, I feel terrible for those young women. It’s awful,” confessed Melinda.
She went on to add how Bill cheated on her at one point back in 2000. However, there “came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn’t healthy, and I couldn’t trust what we had,” she admitted. Melinda and Bill Gates were married for 27 years.
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