Bill Gates & Ex-wife Melinda Pictured with Their First Grandchild for the 1st Time in Sweet Posts

March 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Melinda Gates and Bill Gates speak during "One World: Together At Home" presented by Global Citizen, on April, 18, 2020, at an unspecified location. | Source: Getty Images

Bill Gates cannot wait for his grandchild to "discover the world," he wrote on social media. In what looked like a coordinated move, Melinda French Gates and her ex-husband posted their respective first photos holding their daughter, Jennifer Gates's daughter, at the same time yesterday.

For Melinda French Gates, there was "nothing quite like holding" her first grandbaby. "I am bursting with pride watching [Jennifer] and Nayel step into their new role as parents," she wrote on April 6, 2022. It's unclear from their posts the exes visited the baby together.

Jennifer announced the arrival of her healthy newborn with her husband Nayel Nassar on Tuesday with a photo of them delicately holding the baby girl's feet. They have not disclosed the infant's name yet. "My heart overflows," her mom commented.

Microsoft co-founder stated in a blog last December that he would not be slowing down from his philanthropic efforts "anytime soon." Becoming a grandparent added "a new dimension" to his work.

An affair between Bill Gates and an employee from 2000 came to light in 2019.

The mere act of writing that he is set to become a grandfather made the billionaire emotional. In the 25-minute read titled "The future our grandchildren deserve," Bill outlined how society can make the planet better for the next generation.

The Exes Had First Post-Divorce Photo-Op at Jennifer Gates' Wedding

Twenty-seven years into their marriage, the parents of three, Bill and Melinda French Gates, announced their divorce in May 2021. The women's rights activist broke her silence in a comprehensive interview with CBS' Gayle King that aired last May:

"It wasn't one moment or one specific thing that happened. There just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn't healthy, and I couldn't trust what we had."

An affair between Bill Gates and an employee from 2000 came to light in 2019. A statement announcing his "transition" from the Microsoft board in March 2020 following an internal probe claimed that the affair "ended amicably" almost 20 years ago and was unrelated to his stepping down.

The former couple appeared in public together for the first time since the split at their eldest, Jennifer Gates' wedding to her equestrian partner a month after they finalized their divorce. The nuptials occurred at her horse farm in Westchester, New York, in October 2021.

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