Bill and Melinda Gates world's wealthiest couple: Wealth-X

Spanish retail tycoon Amancio Ortega Gaona and his second wife, Flora Perez, took the number two spot on the list with a combined net worth of $70.7 bn

Bill and Melinda Gates are the world's wealthiest couple with a combined net worth of $85.7 billion, a report said on Wednesday.

Bill Gates, who co-founded Microsoft in 1975, married Melinda, a Microsoft employee, in 1994. In 2000, they set up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at agricultural development, health, educational and other social causes.

“In 2010, the couple joined billionaire investor Warren Buffett to form the Giving Pledge — a campaign to spur the world's wealthiest individuals to commit the majority of their wealth to philanthropy,” Wealth-X, the global wealth intelligence and prospecting company, said.

Spanish retail tycoon Amancio Ortega Gaona and his second wife, Flora Perez, took the number two spot on the Wealth-X list with a combined net worth of $70.7 billion.

Ortega married Flora in 2001, and she currently serves as the vice-president of the Amancio Ortega Foundation.

The youngest couple on the Wealth-X list was 31-year-old Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and 30-year old Priscilla Chan, who were ranked 9th on the list.

“They boast a combined net worth of $38.5 billion. The couple met at Harvard in 2004 and were married in a low-key, simple wedding ceremony in their Palo Alto home in 2012,” the report added.

Others on the list include, Warren Buffett and Astrid Menks at the 3rd place with a combined net worth of $65 billion, followed by David and Julia Koch (4th, $47.5 billion), Charles and Elizabeth Koch (5th, $47.4 billion).

Wang Jianlin and Lin Ning were placed at the 6th place with a combined networth of $40.7 billion, followed by Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos (7th, $39.8 billion), Bernard Arnault and Helene Mercier (8th, $38.7 billion) and James and Lynne Walton (10th, $36.2 billion).

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