t<\/a> stay in that marriage anymore’.<\/p>\nMelinda French Gates told Fortune\u00a0magazine in October that the Covid-19 pandemic helped give her the ‘privacy to do what she needed to do.’<\/p>\n
She also said in 2021 that her husband’s affair with a Microsoft employee in 2000 had broken the ‘trust’ in their marriage.<\/p>\n
She described how she sobbed on the floor as her marriage fell apart, having never thought that the relationship would end in divorce.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The couple’s divorce settlement is America’s second-most expensive ever after Jeff Bezos’ $38.3billion split with ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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