Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie
are set to divorce, according to Bezos himself. Jeff Bezos and
MacKenzie Bezos: divorcing Fifty-four year-old Bezos, who is now
the world’s richest man and his company, the most valuable in the
world, made the announcement today, prompting speculations theirs
could be the most expensive divorce settlement in history.
The couple met while working together at a New York hedge fund.
Dissolve my marriage, my husband beats me before sex, woman tells
court Bezos has a stake in Amazon estimated to be worth $160bn
(£125bn), making him the world’s richest man. The couple married in
1993, one year before Mr Bezos started Amazon from his garage in
Seattle. As well as his shareholding in Amazon, Bezos owns a string
of other investments as well as homes in Seattle, Washington DC,
Beverly Hills, New York and a Gulfstream jet. “After a long period
of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to
divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,”
Mr Bezos wrote in a post on Twitter. MacKenzie Bezos, 48, is a
novelist and founder of anti-bullying organisation Bystander
Revolution in 2014. The former couple met in the early 1990s when
they both worked for investment management firm D.E. Shaw. They
were engaged after three months of working together and married
three months after that. Mrs Bezos was one of Amazon’s earliest
employees and became an accountant for the business when it started
as an online book retailer. They have four children together.
The news of the divorce comes two days after Amazon became the
world’s most valuable company, overtaking Microsoft’s valuation.
Amazon has a market cap of $811.2bn, with analysts speculating that
it could reach the trillion-dollar milestone, anytime soon.
