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Business mogul Bill Gates and ex-wife Melinda Gates donated $100 million to the program for Appropriate Technology in Health on Dec. 2, 1998, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City ...
The pair founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — a nonprofit dedicated to combating global poverty and disease — in 2000. Following their split, Melinda, 60, resigned from the foundation ...
The memoir is also a way to let his children — daughters Jennifer, 28, and Phoebe, 22, as well as son Rory, 25 — learn more about their grandparents, Gates says. "I think it kind of completes ...
The Aristocrats" is a taboo-defying, off-color joke that has been told by numerous stand-up comedians since the vaudeville era. [1] It relates the story of a family trying to get an agent to book their stage act, which is remarkably vulgar and offensive. The punch line reveals that they incongruously bill themselves as "The Aristocrats". [2]
Bill Gates, philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, pictured with ex-wife Melinda as they listen to a speech by French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on April ...
Melinda began dating Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in 1987, after meeting him at a trade fair in New York. [7] [33] In 1994, she married Gates in a private ceremony held in Lanai, Hawaii. They have three children: daughters Jennifer Gates Nassar (born 1996) and Phoebe Gates (born 2002) and son Rory Gates (born 1999). [34]
In a profile with the UK’s The Times published Saturday, the Microsoft co-founder called his split from his wife of 27 years, Melinda French Gates, his biggest blunder.
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.