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Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History

posted by martyb on Sunday July 07 2019, @09:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-up-is-hard-to-do dept.

takyon writes:

Jeff Bezos: World's richest man agrees $35bn divorce

The world's richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his wife MacKenzie have agreed [to] a record-breaking divorce settlement of at least $35bn (£27bn). Ms Bezos keeps a 4% stake in the online retail giant, worth $35.6bn on its own.

[...] Prior to the settlement, Mr Bezos held a 16.3% stake in Amazon. He will retain 75% of that holding but Ms Bezos has transferred all of her voting rights to her former husband. She will also give up her interests in the Washington Post newspaper and Mr Bezos' space travel firm Blue Origin.

Amazon is now [a] vast online retail business. Last year, it generated sales of $232.8bn and it has helped Mr Bezos and his family amass a fortune of $131bn, according to Forbes magazine.

[...] The divorce deal dwarfs a previous $3.8bn record set in 1999 by art dealer Alec Wildenstein and his wife Jocelyn, who became well-known for her cosmetic surgery.

MacKenzie Bezos (soon to be MacKenzie Tuttle?):

She is now the third-richest woman in the world, as well as one of the wealthiest overall.

Also at USA Today.

See also: MacKenzie Bezos to give half of her $36 billion fortune to charity

Previously: Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years
Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail
The Story Behind the Instant Classic "Bezos Exposes Pecker" Headline
Saudi Arabia's Government Allegedly Hacked Into Jeff Bezos's Phone

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @09:57PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @09:57PM (#864223)

    No woman ever earned a billion dollars, only leached it.

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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @10:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @10:27PM (#864233)

    In general, no human ever earned a billion dollars, only leached it from the working class.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @11:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 07 2019, @11:29PM (#864255)

    FYI...
    https://www.thoughtco.com/leach-and-leech-1689431 [thoughtco.com]

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday July 08 2019, @01:07AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 08 2019, @01:07AM (#864282) Journal

    No woman ever earned a billion dollars

    Speaking in the proper sense** of earning, no man either.

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    ** earn - obtain (money) in return for labour or services.
    Show me any labour or service provided by a single person that worth billion dollars.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @01:31AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @01:31AM (#864284)

      the person who invented/discovered the "zero" did humankind a service worth a billion dollars, at least.
      curiously enough nobody had that much money at the time ...

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 08 2019, @02:37AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 08 2019, @02:37AM (#864295) Journal

        the person who invented/discovered the "zero" did humankind a service worth a billion dollars, at least.

        Can you imagine human civilization without fire? Or without Pytagora's theorem? Or without heliocentric model?

        Point: are the discovery mentioned above to be considered as "services"?

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @06:46AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @06:46AM (#864376)

    Wow. You're really bitter aren't you?

    Did some mean lady do bad things to you? Poor baby!

    I guess the upside is that you're posting here instead of taking your anger and bitterness out on women with violence.

    Or are you just taking a break from rape and murder to post here?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @08:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 08 2019, @08:05PM (#864671)

      You two should get a divorce.