Bill and Melinda Gates announce divorce after 27 years of marriage

Bill and Melinda Gates took to Twitter to announce that they are getting divorced after 27 years of marriage. They will continue to work together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and his wife Melinda announced on Tuesday that they are getting divorced. They said they would continue to work together at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable foundation. pic.twitter.com/padmHSgWGc In identical tweets, they said they had made the decision to end their marriage of 27 years. “We have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives,” they said in a statement.