Bill and Melinda Gates Splitting Up
Melinda, a Duke grad, is on the Duke Board of Trustees and has been very generous to the University:
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New York (CNN Business)Bill and Melinda Gates are ending their marriage after 27 years, the pair announced in a statement on their verified Twitter accounts.
"After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage," the statement reads.
The couple founded their philanthropic organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together in 2000. Since then, the foundation has spent $53.8 billion on a wide range of initiatives related to global health, poverty alleviation and more, according to its website.
He is 65 and she, 56. She is class of 1986, with a degree from Fuqua a year later.