Bill Gates fell to 5th place on Forbes's billionaire rankings after divorce and divided property with his ex-wife Melinda.

According to Forbes's real-time billionaire rankings on August 9, the co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates Group dropped a level, down to 5th place, with the current total assets of 129.6 billion USD, low

This change takes place after Gates on August 5 to transfer nearly 2.4 billion USD from his Cascade investment company to his ex-wife Melinda French Gates, who owns an estimated assets of 5,

The US billionaire Bill Gates interviewed on August 4.

Melinda received 3.3 million shares of AutoNation automobile retailers, worth about 392 million USD, and currently owns 8.8% of this company.

Melinda is said to receive more shares from other husband's other investments.

Gates and Melinda on August 2 filed a divorce to King's County Court in Washington, USA, three months after announcing divorce.

The two agreed to continue working together in the Bill & Melinda Gates Charity Foundation, but it was possible that the cooperation would also end with their marriage.