Gates Divorce Roils World’s Biggest Family Philanthropy Engine
- Couple pledged to give away majority of $145 billion in assets
- How fortune is split may determine which causes get funded
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It started with a safari in Africa.
A young Bill and Melinda Gates, riding in the back of a truck, were on the continent for the first time in 1993 -- there to see animals, nature and discuss their priorities as a soon-to-be married couple. But what they saw sparked a broader conversation about the enormous fortune they’d already begun to amass.