• Bill Gates, 65, announced on Twitter on Monday that he and his 56-year-old wife Melinda are divorcing
  • He has hired Charles T. Munger, a 97-year-old L.A.-based business lawyer and philanthropist
  • Both of them worked at Berkshire Hathaway; Gates served on the board until May 2020, Munger is a VP there
  • Munger is not a family lawyer – his expertise is in business, real estate and investing 
  • In the 1950s, he lost all his money to his first wife, Nancy; he recovered to become a billionaire  
  • Melinda described her marriage as ‘irretrievably broken’ in a divorce petition viewed by DailyMail.com
  • The petition revealed the couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement when they wed in 1994 
  • Gates was already a billionaire; he founded Microsoft in 1975 and made his first billion in 1987  
  • Since then they amassed a combined net worth of $130billion and raised three children together
  • Their eldest daughter Jennifer, 25, responded to the news on Instagram and revealed the family has been going through a ‘challenging stretch of time’