海外网5月6日电当地时间3日，美国微软公司创始人比尔·盖茨与妻子梅琳达·盖茨发表联合声明，宣布离婚。外媒披露，就在这对夫妇宣布结束27年婚姻的同一天，比尔·盖茨的投资公司将价值超过18亿美元的股票转让给了梅琳达。

Overseas, May 6 (Xinhua) Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and his wife Melinda Gates announced their divorce in a joint statement on May 3 local time. Foreign media revealed that on the same day that the couple announced the end of their 27 year marriage, Bill Gates' investment company transferred more than $1.8 billion worth of shares to Melinda.

据《纽约邮报》等外媒5日报道，美国证券交易委员会的一份文件显示，5月3日，比尔·盖茨通过其卡斯凯德投资公司向妻子梅琳达转移了价值约18亿美元的股票，其中包括加拿大国家铁路公司价值超过15亿美元的股票，以及美国最大的汽车经销商“全美汽车租赁”估值超过3亿美元的股票。

On May 3, Bill Gates transferred about $1.8 billion worth of shares to his wife Melinda through his cascade investment company, including the shares of Canadian national railway company worth more than $1.5 billion, according to a document from the securities and Exchange Commission of the United States, the New York Post and other foreign media reported on May 5, As well as the largest car dealer in the United States, "American car rental" shares valued at more than $300 million.

外媒认为，这一财产转移与盖茨夫妇的离婚以及财产分割有关。他们向华盛顿州金县高等法院提交的离婚申请显示，两人并没有签署婚前协议来分配估计约1300亿美元的资产。根据华盛顿州的法律，夫妻财产应该平均分配，但家庭事务律师珍妮特·乔治告诉彭博社，在实际情况中，法院可以支持夫妻中的其中一方，将共同拥有财产中较大的一部分判给一方。

Foreign media believe that the property transfer and the gates couple's divorce and property division. Their divorce petition to King County High Court in Washington state showed that the two did not sign a prenuptial agreement to distribute an estimated $130 billion in assets. According to the law of Washington state, husband and wife's property should be evenly distributed, but family lawyer Janet George told the news agency that in practice, the court can support one of the husband and wife to award a larger part of their jointly owned property to the other.

《福布斯》的数据显示，比尔·盖茨是全世界第四富有的人，身价超过1300亿美元，约合人民币8414亿元。他和梅琳达·盖茨此前曾与巴菲特等人共同承诺，将捐出超过一半的个人财产。（海外网 张霓）

According to Forbes, Bill Gates is the fourth richest person in the world, worth more than $130 billion, or 841.4 billion yuan. He and Melinda Gates had previously made a joint commitment with Buffett and others to donate more than half of their personal property（ (Zhang Ni)