NEW YORK—The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated $10 million to the organization that grew out of the hashtag #GivingTuesday in part to fund a database of charitable giving and other acts of generosity. GivingTuesday, the organization, has helped people realize there is a lot they can give, said foundation co-founder Melinda French Gates in…

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has said he should have heeded the advice of his ex-wife Melinda Gates, once again saying that it was a “huge mistake” to meet several times with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier accused of sex trafficking and child abuse. In an interview with NBC, Gates said he “certainly made a huge…

Melinda Gates has said that billionaire Bill Gates’ relationship with “evil personified” Jeffrey Epstein played a part in her divorce from the Microsoft co-founder. Epstein was found dead in a New York federal jail on Aug. 10, 2019, at the age of 66. At the time, he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges for abusing women and girls…

NEW YORK—Melinda French Gates, already one of the world’s most prominent philanthropists, will now take on the job of publisher. Gates has formed a nonfiction imprint with Flatiron Books, a division of Macmillan. The imprint, announced Tuesday by Macmillan, is called Moment of Lift Books and will launch with three releases about women and girls,…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Wednesday addressed his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019, as a “huge mistake.” Speaking to CNN, Gates said he had “several dinners” with Epstein, a disgraced financier accused of sex trafficking and child abuse before he was found dead in a jail cell in Manhattan, about 10 years…

Melinda Gates, the wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, will resign from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s leadership after two years if she or Bill Gates can’t work together, the foundation said Wednesday. The announcement comes two months after the couple simultaneously announced they would be getting a divorce after 27 years of marriage….

The Gates Foundation said Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates, in the midst of a high-profile divorce, will continue to work as co-chairs for a two-year trial period and after that time if the arrangement unravels, she would step down. The contingency plan for one of the world’s largest philanthropic foundations was announced by Chief…

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and the fourth most wealthy person in the world, has acquired more than 242,000 acres of farmland across the United States, making him the top private farmland owner in the country. The Land Report, a magazine provided by the Realtors Land Institute, said that based on its research, Bill and Melinda…