The meeting included Melinda Gates’ comment on her ex-husband, Bill Gates, admitting he had an affair with a Microsoft employee in 2000, and her response was: “Well, I definitely believe in tolerance, so I thought we had worked through some of that, it wasn’t a moment One or one specific thing happened, there came a moment in time where there was enough that I realized our marriage wasn’t healthy, and I couldn’t trust what we had.”
At the time the divorce papers were filed, Bill Gates’ fortune was estimated at about 130 billion dollars, and the couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement, and soon after the divorce was finalized, Bill Gates said in statements to the American network “CNN” that his separation from Melinda was A “very sad milestone” and a source of “personal grief”.