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Los Angeles (AFP) - Britney Spears' husband said Thursday his marriage to the troubled pop star is over, filing for divorce just 14 months after the pair wed. Sam Asghari said the couple would "hold onto the love" they have, but that they were going their separate ways. "After 6 years of love and commitment to each other my wife and I have decided to end our journey together," the Iranian-born model wrote on Instagram. "We will hold onto the love and respect we have for each other and I wish her the best always," the 29-year-old added. "Asking for privacy seems ridiculous so I will just ask fo...
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New York (AFP) - Melinda French Gates on Thursday criticized her ex-husband Bill Gates for having met multiple times with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of child sex crimes who committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial. In her first televised interview since the couple announced their divorce in May, French Gates also acknowledged that she had once met Epstein, saying that afterward she "had nightmares." "I wanted to see who this man was, and I regretted it from the second I stepped in the door," she said, without clarifying when the meeting occurred. She described Epstein in the ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Reality TV star Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kanye West officially ended Wednesday when a Los Angeles judge finalized her divorce from the rapper now known as Ye. Kardashian appeared before the court virtually but Ye was represented only by his lawyer, who brought no objection to the end of the marriage. Ye had publicly fought the separation, including with social media posts imploring Kardashian to reconcile. Kardashian filed for divorce last year after months of press reports about marital strife and as Ye battled with mental health issues. "I very much desire to be divor...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A court in Los Angeles has made Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's divorce official 10 years after they separated following the actor-turned-politician's infidelity, US media reported Wednesday. Celebrity news site TMZ said the pair's divorce proceedings took a particularly long time because of the number of financial assets to negotiate. Shriver, a journalist and the niece of former US president John F. Kennedy, first filed for divorce in July 2011. Weeks later, the "Terminator" star admitted to having an affair with the family nanny, Mildred Baena, with whom he h...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Bill Gates said it was a "huge mistake" to socialize with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking minors. The co-founder and former chief of Microsoft addressed the relationship in a late Wednesday CNN interview that came just two days after his divorce from his ex-wife, Melinda, was finalized. Melinda Gates had reportedly been concerned about her husband spending time with Epstein a decade ago. "It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there," Gates said during an...
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New York (AFP) - The shock announcement that billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are to divorce after 27 years of marriage has raised questions about the future of their hugely influential charity. Here, AFP takes a look at the Gates Foundation, from how it works and what projects it finances, to its impact on the pandemic and how the non-profit may be impacted by the split. Its mission, and vast budgetThe couple say the idea for the foundation came to them as young parents when they read a newspaper article about millions of children in developing countries dying from easily tr...
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Washington (AFP) - Billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates have announced they are divorcing after 27 years of marriage, raising questions over how they will split their fortune and the direction of one of the world's most powerful charity organizations. The couple, with a joint fortune estimated at $130 billion, have channeled billions into charitable work around the globe via their hugely influential Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They said they would continue their joint work on the foundation, which funds programs in global health, gender equality, education and other causes. ...
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Washington (AFP) - From muddy streets in South Africa's townships to cocktail parties at Davos -- Bill and Melinda Gates came as a pair. Together, they built a charitable empire through Bill's technology company Microsoft and the massive non-profit they co-founded and co-chair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And when it came time to announce Monday the end of their 27-year marriage, they did that as a pair too in a joint statement posted to their respective Twitter accounts at exactly the same moment. Gates, 65, summed it up like this in a 2019 Netflix documentary series: "In the case o...
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Washington (AFP) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife and fellow philanthropist Melinda announced on Monday they are divorcing after a 27-year marriage. The announcement from one of the world's wealthiest couples, with an estimated net worth of some $130 billion, was made in a joint statement on Twitter. "After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage," they said. The statement said they would continue their joint work on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the massive charity which funds programs in global health, gen...
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