Melinda french gatesUS billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates’s ex -wife, recently in news for several reasons. Finally, Bill Agets are being seen with their new lover after opening her divorce with her husband of 27 years. Philip vonMelinda is actively making headlines one after the other.
Currently, 60 -year -old Melinda is in the news due to the launch of his new book ‘The Next Day: Transition, Change and Moving Forward’, which was released on 15 April 2025. “There has been a lot in my life in the last few years, which I saw,” he wrote at the beginning of his book.
In the book, Melinda has revealed various personal details that the world was not yet private. From a visit to Mexico, where she told Bill that she wants to start living separately for the terror attacks faced after divorce, she feels that she has written one-all who are in new headlines in minutes.
Writing about his life after his life in the book, Melinda shared an interesting and emotional anecdot about her wedding video. She shared that she used to watch her wedding video every year around her wedding anniversary with Bill Gates, which was on 1 January 1994.
In the clip, the couple are standing in front of a tierard wedding cake, but “Bill doesn’t know what he is going to do” Melinda wrote.
“Instead of cutting a piece and feeding the same bite like every other groom in history, he thought he was going to cut a piece for everyone. When I came to know what he was doing, I laughing so hardly that I would not talk so hard that I could not talk,” he continued.
Although he initially appeared confused “because he could tell that he is something wrong,” finally he started laughing, just because she was.
“It catches the things that I loved about him,” he wrote, seeing “I get tears now by looking at it.”
Why Bill and Melinda Gates divorced?

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Recently, in an interview, Bill Gates shared that his divorce was the “greatest regret” of his life. However, for Melinda, the divorce was “something that was necessary.” “If you could not live your values inside your most intimate relationships, it was necessary,” he told the Times.
In 2021, the divorce of the couple was finalized for the reason that they can no longer grow together as a couple in this next stage of life. ” Bill later admitted to “pain” in his family, while Melinda indicated in an interview with CBS Morning that the convicts were a factor in their decision to quit the bill with Jeffrey Epstein.
Bill is now rumored to be dating Paula HurdWidow of former Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. Meanwhile, Melinda has also moved forward in life and has been seen with a technical entrepreneur and a craft beer delivery company, Tavor founder Philip Von.