Bill and Melinda Gates shocked the world when they announced their divorce in early May. It left many people wondering about the future of their global philanthropic work through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has an endowment of nearly $50 billion. The couple pledged to continue working together, but the waterfall of scandalous reports that have emerged about Bill threatens to shatter the carefully constructed public persona the Microsoft cofounder has built for decades. Recode’s Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) explains.

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Read Teddy’s story for Recode here: https://bit.ly/2S21gHC

Here is the Wall Street Journal article Teddy mentioned: https://on.wsj.com/3wdxOgA

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