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MacKenzie Bezos said that she would give all her stake in the Washington Post and the Blue Origin space exploration company to her husband – the richest man in the world – as well as take control of his remaining shares of Amazon.
Jeff Bezos, 55, and MacKenzie, 48, novelist, married in 1993 and father of four. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in Seattle in 1994 and turned it into a colossus that dominates the online business.
In a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon, with a market capitalization of approximately $ 890 billion, said MacKenzie Bezos will control 4% of the company's outstanding common shares.
At the current price of Amazon action, this would represent around 35.6 billion dollars.
According to Forbes magazine, the divorce settlement makes MacKenzie Bezos the third richest woman in the world after the heiress of L? Oréal Francoise Bettencourt Meyers and Alice Walton of Walmart.
Jeff Bezos, who now owns 12% of Amazon's share capital, remains the richest man and the largest shareholder in the company, with an estimated fortune of $ 110 billion, Forbes announced in front of the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway President Warren Buffett.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announced their separation in January and posted Twitter messages Thursday revealing the divorce settlement.
"I am grateful to have completed the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff with the support of everyone and everyone who has extended us kindness," wrote MacKenzie Bezos.
"Glad to give him all my interests in the Washington Post and Blue Origin, as well as 75% of our Amazon stock and control of my actions to support his ongoing contributions to the teams of these incredible companies," she said. declared.
"Excited for my own projects, grateful for the past as I look forward to seeing what will follow."
Jeff Bezos, in a personal message from Twitter, said his wife had been "an extraordinary partner, ally and mother".
"She is resourceful, bright and loving, and as our future unfolds, I know I will always learn from her," he said.
"I am grateful for his support and kindness in this process and I am very excited about our new relationship as friends and co-parents," added Bezos.
Bezos has largely kept his private life private during his years at Amazon.
In January, the announcement of his divorce with his wife after 25 years of marriage and the announcement made by the National Enquirer that he had had a problem
deal with a former news anchor, Lauren Sanchez
+ .
An investigator claims that the phone of the head of Amazon Bezos hacked by Saudis
The investigator hired to examine the publication of intimate images of Jeff Bezos said Sunday to have concluded that the Saudi authorities had hacked the phone of the leader of the Amazon to access his personal data. Gavin de Becker has linked this piracy to extensive coverage by The Washington Post, which belongs to Bezos, of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
When the National Enquirer, controlled by David Pecker, an ally of President Donald Trump, threatened to publish intimate and sinister images of Bezos and Sanchez,
Bezos fought back
+ by publicly publishing the details of his exchanges.
"Rather than surrender in the face of extortion and blackmail, I decided to publish exactly what they sent me, despite the personal costs and embarrbadment that I experienced. they threaten, "wrote Bezos in a blog post.
A National Enquirer lawyer denied that the supermarket tabloid attempted to extort and blackmail the founder of the Amazon.
Trump often criticized La Poste, which Bezos bought in 2013, claiming that the newspaper was biased against him and calling him the "Amazon Washington Post".
Shares of Amazon closed down 0.1% to $ 1,818.86 on Thursday.
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