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Richest Woman In The Making? MacKenzie Bezos May Get $69 Billion In Divorce Settlement With Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The Chief Executive of Amazon.com Inc, Jeff Bezos, and his wife Mackenzie Bezos, after a lengthy trial separation, are getting divorced, Livemint reports. The Chief Executive, on Wednesday (9 January), announced the decision in a joint statement by the couple on Twitter.
Bezos’ stake in Amazon has led his worth to boost over 160 billion dollars, especially after his company surpassed Microsoft Inc, to become the most valuable company on Wall Street this week.
They met while they were working at a New York-based hedge fund, D.E. Shaw in 1992 and got married in 1993. Jeff founded Amazon as an online book store in late 1994 and then expanded into a variety of products and services.
Mackenzie is a novelist and written books like Traps and The Testing of Luther. In 2015, the novelist founded an anti-bullying organisation known as Bystander Revolution, where she serves as the executive director. The couple were married for 25 years and have four children.
The divorce could also shuffle the global wealth ranking. If the duo divided their fortune equally, it could leave MacKenzie with $69 billion, making her the world’s richest woman. It could also make Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, currently worth $92.5 billion, the planet’s richest person once again, after Bezos surpassed him in October 2017.
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