Melinda Gates The Time Interview: Melinda after divorcing Bill Gates: ‘It has been wonderful’

Philanthropist Melinda French Gates, the former wife of Bill Gates spoke to The Time on her much-discussed divorce and her life after that. Getting a divorce is a horrible thing, she said during the interview only to correct herself and replace ‘horrible’ with ‘hard’. But now that it is over, it has been wonderful, Melinda said. “I’ll just leave it there,” she added. The report said she has taken to skiing, she is travelling Between New York and Washington to see her daughters, granddaughters and son.Melinda travels to Paris to watch her son-in-law Nayel Nassar compete as an equestrian in the Olympics.
A few close friends will throw her a dance party for her 60th, she is part of two spiritual groups and is “smitten” with her new house. “By all accounts she’s living her best life,” The Time said.

“I live in a neighborhood. Now I can walk to little stores. I can walk to the drugstore, I can walk to a restaurant,” Melinda said.
Is Melinda French dating?
Melinda told The Time that she was willing to meet somebody new, somebody vibrant, smart, open to learning and someone who could challenger her and vice versa. “Not that I’m ready to talk about,” she said replying to a rather direct question on whether somebody was there in the picture.
After 27 years of marriage, the Gates announced their divorce in May 2021. Despite the divorce, Melina continued on the foundation’s board until May this year when she announced her decision to step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her last day of work was June 7. As part of the agreement, Melina left the foundation with additional $12.5 billion for her philanthropy. Almost a year after the divorce announcement, since 2022, Bill has been seen frequently with Paula Hurd, the widow of former Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd. Bill had an affair with a Microsoft employee in 2020 leading to an internal investigation in 2019.