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Melinda French Gates [2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft. Born and raised in Dallas , Texas, she graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987.
Bill and Melinda Gates married in 1994 after seven years of dating. In 2000, they founded the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, which seeks to benefit education, health, and more across the globe.
Melinda French Gates attends the 2024 Albie Awards presented by the Clooney Foundation for Justice at the New York Public Library on Sept. 26, 2024, in New York City.
Bill and Melinda married in 1994, the same year they launched the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The two welcomed daughter Jennifer in 1996, son Rory in 1999 and daughter Phoebe in 2002.
The foundation will change its name to the Gates Foundation, a spokesperson said. French Gates will receive $12.5 billion as part of her agreement with Gates, which she said would commit to future work focused on women and families. The foundation said that Gates would supply those funds personally, not from the foundation's endowment.
Melinda French Gates opened up about what it was like going to meetings with her ex-husband. MEGA/Getty Images Melinda French Gates is reclaiming her professional power post-divorce from Bill Gates.
Bill Gates is speaking candidly about his divorce from Melinda French Gates, calling it "the mistake I regret the most.". In an interview with The Times of London published on Saturday, Jan. 25 ...
In May 2024, however, Melinda stepped down from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable organization that she co-founded in 2000 with with her now ex-husband.