Amazon founder and world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, has finally settled the long talked-about divorce with wife MacKenzie Bezos.
Amazon founder and world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, has finally settled the long talked-about divorce with wife MacKenzie Bezos, making it the world’s most expensive divorce ever. Earlier this year, on 9th January Jeff Bezos took to his Twitter account to announce the couple’s impending divorce, after 26 years of marriage.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) January 9, 2019
While the announcement stated that they would “continue our shared lives as friends,” the final divorce settlement, which was finalised a few hours ago, hasn’t come at a marginal cost. Post her divorce, MacKenzie now owns company shares that are worth over 35 billion dollars, or over Rs 24 lakh crore.
— MacKenzie Scott (@mackenziescott) April 4, 2019
As per Forbes, that makes MacKenzie Bezos world’s third richest woman after divorce. L’Oréal’s Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is the world’s richest woman with 52.9 billion dollars to her name, while Walmart’s Alice Walton is the second-richest with 45 billion dollars in her bank account. All in all, MacKenzie Bezos would be the world’s 26th richest person after her expensive divorce from Jeff Bezos.
We wonder where this leaves Jeff Bezos now. It has been announced that Jeff will continue to retain 75 percent of his stock in the company following the divorce. The divorce shall not take away Jeff’s influence over the workings of Amazon. He will continue to be the largest shareholder in the company.
While Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most successful businessmen with Amazon, MacKensie, too, is an accomplished author who won an American Book Award for her debut novel ‘The Testing of Luther Albright’. We wish the couple well for the future that awaits them.
San Francisco, California, U.S. MacKenzie Scott Bezos is an American novelist and philanthropist. She is the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married from 1993 until their divorce in 2019. … They announced their intent to divorce in January 2019.
