{"id":60201,"date":"2019-01-10T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T10:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/?p=60201"},"modified":"2019-04-17T17:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T17:09:42","slug":"amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-and-wife-mackenzie-divorce-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominiclevent.com\/blog\/amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-and-wife-mackenzie-divorce-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie divorce – BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are to divorce after a 25-year marriage.<\/p>\n

The pair announced the move in a joint statement on Wednesday on Twitter.<\/p>\n

“After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,” the couple said in the statement.<\/p>\n

Amazon, formed 25 years ago, this week eclipsed Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable listed company.<\/p>\n

Mr Bezos, 54, who founded Amazon, is the world’s wealthiest man according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index<\/a>, with an estimated wealth of $137bn, some $45bn ahead of Bill Gates.<\/p>\n

The 48-year-old MacKenzie Bezos is a novelist, the author of The Testing of Luther Albright (2005) and Traps (2013). <\/p>\n

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    “We feel incredibly lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for every one of the years we have been married to each other,” the couple’s statement said.<\/p>\n

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    “If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again. We’ve had such a great life together as a married couple and we also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and adventures.<\/p>\n

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      “Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.”<\/p>\n

      Last year they launched a charity project together, the Day One Fund<\/a>, with the aim of helping homeless families and building pre-schools in low-income communities.<\/p>\n

      The couple have four children – three sons, and an adopted daughter.<\/p>\n

      US media report that Mr Bezos has been romantically involved with a former Fox TV host, Lauren S\u00e1nchez<\/a>. <\/p>\n

      Entertainment news site TMZ, citing sources linked to Ms S\u00e1nchez, said the presenter has been “seeing” Mr Bezos as of late last year.<\/p>\n

      In 2013, MacKenzie Bezos told Vogue Magazine that she had met Jeff when he interviewed her for a job at a hedge fund in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

      They got engaged after three months of dating and married shortly after, in 1993.<\/p>\n

      One year later he founded Amazon – which began as an online book retailer. <\/p>\n

      The company has since expanded into an e-commerce giant.<\/p>\n

      Amazon was worth $797bn (\u00a3634bn) when the US stock market closed on Monday, after rising 3.4% and moving past Microsoft, valued at $789bn.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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