Photograph: Kyle Johnson/The New York Times The 2.0 refers to Gates’s technological innovations.)īill and Melinda Gates pictured in February 2018. (Xanadu is the name of a large, lavish property that belongs to the tycoon at the heart of the film Citizen Kane. The sprawling complex – which, at the time of a 1995 New York Times story, included a spa, an 18m pool, a gym panelled with stone from a mountain peak in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, a trampoline room, and a stream for salmon, trout and other fish – got the nickname Xanadu 2.0 from Bill Gates’s biographers. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, of which they are cochairs, says that nothing will change in its organisational structure.īut their 6,130sq m, or 66,000sq ft, home on the shore of Lake Washington is another matter. The couple, worth an estimated $124 billion according to Forbes, announced their split in a joint statement posted to their social-media profiles earlier this month. As experts in philanthropy, finance, technology and global health scramble to predict what the divorce of Melinda and Bill Gates could mean for their industries, others are wondering: who will get their lakefront estate in the Seattle suburbs, which is valued at upward of $131 million (€108 million)? And will the public finally get a peek inside?
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