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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.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Thursday January 10 2019, @03:49AM
Bezos doesn't have $137 billion or whatever his net worth is. He has a lot of Amazon stock, and if he were to sell most of it, the value could drop and he could be removed from his position, limiting his future income and allowing other people to accumulate the Amazon bucks.
Elon Musk is another "cash-starved" billionaire. A lot of his worth is in Tesla stock, and that worth could potentially evaporate. On the other hand, some people predict that Tesla and SpaceX will perform amazingly well and Musk will become the first "trillionaire".
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