Melinda Trenchard

Melinda french gates[2] (born melinda ann french; 6 days agonew detail emerges on how bill gates and ex-wife melinda divided their billions and their charity work after divorce he agreed to give her $12.5 billion — and much of that. 6 days agobill gates sent $8b to ex-wife melinda for charity work, instantly making foundation one of world’s largest the pair announced their divorce in may 2021 and subsequently split up.

Mar 13, 2025melinda french gates is a billionaire philanthropist and businesswoman. As co-chair of the world’s largest private charitable foundation, melinda gates is one of the most powerful women in philanthropy. Co-founder of the bill & melinda gates foundation, she is not.

6 days agobill gates quietly sent nearly $8 billion to the private foundation of his ex-wife, melinda french gates, in what amounts to one of the largest divorce-related payouts ever. 6 days agomelinda french gates has transformed her relatively young pivotal philanthropies foundation into one of america’s largest private foundations almost overnight, in part due to. 6 days agothe billionaire and philanthropist has made a nearly $8 billion payment to the private foundation of his ex-wife, melinda french gates, tax filings show.

Jan 8, 2026although bill gates' split from ex-wife melinda after almost 30 years was difficult, both parties eventually came out on the other side considerably better off. Along with her husband, melinda gates initiated her charitable endeavors in 1994, largely at the behest of bill’s father, william h.