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posted by Snow on Wednesday January 09 2019, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the prenups-are-very-high-IQ dept.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeff-bezos-amazon-ceo-worth-137-billion-to-divorce-wife-of-25-years

"Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, the Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner has announced, potentially leading to the costliest divorce settlement in history with $137 billion at stake."

The richest man in the world, currently worth about $137 billion, according to Bloomberg, made the divorce announcement on Wednesday on his Twitter.

[...]The split could lead [to] the costliest divorce is[sic] history, even if the couple doesn’t divide the money equally. There are no reports indicating the couple has a prenuptial agreement, meaning the wealth accumulated during their marriage would have to be split evenly.

Also covered by CBC, CNN, and CNBC among other news outlets.


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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday January 09 2019, @10:09PM (7 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @10:09PM (#784301) Journal

    Why are they divorcing? They say they remain great friends, and will stay in touch. Is this to be believed?

    Or is this an attack on marriage, and religious conservatives? They will stay married in spirit, while showing their disdain for the legal trappings of marriage?

    Or maybe Jeff Bezos wants to have more children and needs a younger woman for that? (Maybe he already met one!) While he surely has the money, does he have the time? Might have to step down from his leadership position at Amazon. Of course he can afford personal nannies and the like, no need for day care, so maybe not.

    Could one of them want to go on some sort of crusade? Want to do charitable work, like Bil Gates is trying to do? If that's what he or she is up to, why not stay together?

    Whatever is behind this, seems the curious will have to wait for more information.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday January 09 2019, @10:53PM (3 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @10:53PM (#784319)

    > Or is this an attack on marriage, and religious conservatives?

    He should decide to be a woman, just to piss off the ultra-conservative people who couldn't stand the idea that the richest person in the word would be a liberal trans girl.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 10 2019, @01:35AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 10 2019, @01:35AM (#784396)

      two people are splitting up and all you can do is spew hate on people you do not even know. nice.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday January 10 2019, @01:48AM

        by bob_super (1357) on Thursday January 10 2019, @01:48AM (#784405)

        While I was going for, and got modded, "funny", I'd like to take the opportunity you offer to reaffirm my shameless intention to keep spewing hate, at any time, in any context, at any person properly labelled "ultra-conservative".
        Except maybe if they apply that label to their personal assets management. But any religion, ethnic, or political group is fair game.

      • (Score: 1, TouchĂ©) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 10 2019, @05:06PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 10 2019, @05:06PM (#784554)

        Ah yes, the "be civil" request from racists andthe hatefully devout. It gets tiresome tip toeing around such delicate sensibilities, I mean we wouldn't want to offend anyone right??

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday January 09 2019, @11:11PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday January 09 2019, @11:11PM (#784328) Journal

    Tune in next week...same Bat time, same Bat channel!

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    • (Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Wednesday January 09 2019, @11:47PM

      by Fluffeh (954) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 09 2019, @11:47PM (#784345) Journal

      Tune in next week...same BatTY time, same BatTY channel!

      FTFY.

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday January 11 2019, @02:31AM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday January 11 2019, @02:31AM (#784815) Journal

    Marriage? Religion? Please, get over that shit.

    Whatever is behind this, seems the curious will have to wait for more information.

    Yeah well, tax returns aren't usually made public. I'm sure there's a perfectly plausible reason for the breakup. They might get bigger social security checks when they retire.

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