Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and his long-standing wife can finally get a divorce. After a long argument, the Ex-partners reached an agreement in the amount of 38 billion US dollars.
A court in the Seattle area have sealed the separation, reported the Agency Bloomberg. The agreement, according to the 49-year-old MacKenzie Bezos receives almost 19.7 million Amazon.com-share. Thus, it holds in the future, a share of four percent of the company, or the equivalent of about 38.3 billion U.S. dollars. Attached to the shares voting rights and their shares in the newspaper “Washington Post” and the space travel company “Blue Origin” was she to your Ex-husband.
Jeff Bezos keep a share of the Company in the amount of twelve percent to the value of 114.8 billion dollars. Thus, he remains the richest person in the world. MacKenzie Bezos had earlier announced that it wants to donate the largest portion of their assets for charitable purposes. She joined the Initiative “the Giving Pledge”, in which wealthy donors to commit more than half of their wealth for such purposes to submit.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos had married in 1993 and have four children. Jeff Bezos founded the Online retailer Amazon in 1994, shortly after his wedding. Since then, Amazon has become one of the largest Internet companies in the world.
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