Melinda Gates

If you’re going to get married, it can be worth considering how you and your spouse would each protect your financial interests in case you split up.

As much as billionaire couple Bill and Melinda Gates want to keep their pending divorce private, the split is already sending shockwaves through the worlds of philanthropy and public health.

On Monday, Bill and Melinda Gates announced plans to divorce. Though the terms of their separation agreement have not been made public, here’s a breakdown of Bill Gates’ wealth, according to wealth data company Wealth-X.

Bill and Melinda Gates said Monday that they are divorcing.

The pair released a statement on Twitter saying they had made the decision to end their marriage after 27 years.

“We’re not going to get as robust or as quick of a recovery unless we look at this infrastructure that we’ve turned away from for too long,” Melinda Gates said.

Bill Gates has collaborated with Dr. Fauci on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Covid efforts since the start of the pandemic.

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda Gates shares her thoughts about the U.S. response to coronavirus and why solving the current caregiving crisis is crucial.

Billionaire Bill Gates warned about the dangers of a global viral outbreak years before the coronavirus pandemic killed hundreds of thousands of people and upended the global economy. But Gates now wishes he’d been more urgent in order to convince global leaders to take the threat of a ‘once-in-a-century pathogen’ more seriously, he told The Wall Street Journal.

“A number of years ago, we talked about, ‘What if there wasn’t clean water? What if there wasn’t enough food? Where might we go? What might we do as a family?'” Melinda Gates told BBC Radio on Thursday.

Bill and Melinda Gates’ oldest daughter, Jennifer Gates told Sidelines Magazine what is was like growing up in one of the wealthiest families in world, plus what she learned by watching her parents.

If America’s richest entrepreneurs inspire you or if you’re buying for someone who’s a fan, here are some billionaire-approved, affordable products that make perfect holiday gifts.

“I’m often asked about what I am reading and watching—either because people want to learn more about pandemics, or because they are looking for a distraction,” Bill Gates wrote in a recent blog post. “Here are some of the ones I’ve suggested.”

The philanthropist and business leader says it’s the same quote she recited in her high school graduation speech.

Reaching women is “absolutely critical” to ensuring finances trickle down to other parts of society, Bill Gates said at Singapore FinTech Festival.

Increasingly, health officials are using verbal autopsies — an interview in which a trained health worker asks a close relative or caretaker about a recently deceased person — and their computer algorithms to learn more about the global course of human disease. About 50 countries have attempted verbal autopsy projects, and the list is growing. On Tuesday, Bloomberg Philanthropies —...

Bill and Melinda Gates, as the world’s top philanthropists, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider their unsatisfactory track record on schools, the country’s growing inequity and a president they disagree with more than any other. In an interview with The Associated Press, the couple said they’re concerned about President Donald Trump’s “America first” worldview....

DeGeneres, perhaps one of the more recognizable celebrities in the country, found herself waiting at the White House front gate after forgetting to bring a photo ID.

Robert De Niro, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bruce Springsteen and Ellen DeGeneres spearhead a star-studded list of honorees who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor, the White House announced Wednesday.

Salesforce joined the fight against HIV/AIDS on day two of its annual Dreamforce convention in San Francisco.