Estranged Wife Of World’s Richest Man, Jeff Bezos, Set To Become Fourth Richest Woman In The World After Earning A Staggering Amount As Divorce Settlement
Amazon founder and world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, and his wife MacKenzie have agreed to a record-breaking divorce settlement of at least $35bn (£27bn). Ms Bezos gets to keep a 4% stake in the online retail giant, worth $35.6bn on its own.
Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in Seattle in 1994, a year after the couple married, and Ms Bezos was one of its first employees. Both parties tweeted positive comments about the other in the wake of the announced settlement.
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The two did not provide any further financial details about the settlement. The Amazon shares alone will make Ms Bezos the world’s fourth-richest woman while Jeff will remain the world’s richest person, according to Forbes.
The tech executive who now 55, married novelist, MacKenzie, 48, in 1993 and they have four children.Mackenzie who joined Twitter only this month made her first and only tweet about the successful dissolution of her marriage after 25 years together. It is her first post since joining the microblogging app.
In the tweet, she stated that she was;
“grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage to Jeff with support from each other”.
See her tweet below:
https://twitter.com/mackenziebezos
Source: BBC.COM