Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, announced on Thursday that he will transfer roughly 4% of the company’s stock to his wife, MacKenzie, most likely by early July. The couple are in the process of finalizing their divorce.
Those shares are worth more than $35 billion as of 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday. That would make MacKenzie the third-richest woman in the world, behind L’Oréal’s Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, who is worth an estimated $52.9 billion, and Walmart’s Alice Walton, who is worth $45 billion. She would rank as the planet’s 26th-richest person, ahead of Nike’s Phil Knight.
Jeff Bezos will remain the world’s richest person, with a net worth above $110 billion, per early Thursday afternoon stock prices. Bill Gates is the world’s second-wealthiest individual, boasting an estimated $99.5 billion fortune.. Other divorces of the ultrarich include Steve and Elaine Wynn , as well as Bill and Susan Gross .posted to his Twitter account, Jeff Bezos said, “In all our work together, MacKenzie’s abilities have been on full display.
The couple filed a petition for divorce on April 4, and they expect an official decree to be issued in early July, they said in an SEC filing that outlined the transfer of shares. The filing noted that Jeff Bezos will continue to exercise voting control over MacKenzie’s shares, unless she sells them on the open market or gives them to qualifying nonprofits.
If MacKenzie transfers shares, the recipient of the stock must sign a similar agreement granting Jeff Bezos voting control.their divorce in January, following 25 years of marriage. Their separation stirred a tabloid frenzy, as intimate text messages between Bezos and his romantic partner, Lauren Sanchez, a TV anchor, were leaked by the
According to your own rules doesn’t this make MacKenzie Bezos the richest female selfmade billionaire
She earned it. The writing makes it sound like she is lucky that he is giving it to her. He is lucky she didn't demand more.
How can they just divorce when they can easily settle their problems through love and divine submission to Christ
May god continue to bless you.
i think its fair what they did JeffBezos received 75% of his Amazon stock, the whole of washingtonpost and blue origion while mackenziebezos recieved only 35% of JeffBezos stock in Amazon giving him also the voting rights of her shares, i think thy r still in love
Divorces can also be largest in history? 🤔
There goes true love in America
Lol the most successful gold digger of all time.
Cheaper to keeper 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
why My calculator can't even convert it into natural. That is bigger than all the African countries Budget put together and some will just walk away with it without breaking a sweat.
She just made the Forbes list of richest people all on her own.
Ridiculous that this is the type of money they have accrued whey Amazon pays NO taxes due to Trump.
Such an immense alimony! 😂
So glad for her!
She is so ugly tho.
great for her, she deserved it....
Neat.
So dumb!
Can anyone let her know I'm single and hot 😂
There is something very sad about this. I can't pinpoint what it is. But it's sad.
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