{"id":6150,"date":"2019-01-09T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-and-wife-mackenzie-divorce\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T17:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T17:14:21","slug":"amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-and-wife-mackenzie-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/amazon-boss-jeff-bezos-and-wife-mackenzie-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Amazon's Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1280F\/production\/_105119757_jeffandmackenziebezos.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    The pair said that they had had a great life together<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are to divorce after a 25-year marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The pair announced the move in a joint statement on Wednesday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,&#8221; the couple said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon, formed 25 years ago, this week eclipsed Microsoft to become the world&#8217;s most valuable listed company.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos, 54, who founded Amazon, is the world&#8217;s wealthiest man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index<\/a>, with an estimated wealth of $137bn, some $45bn ahead of Bill Gates.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old MacKenzie Bezos is a novelist, the author of The Testing of Luther Albright (2005) and Traps (2013). <\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-44894420\" class=\"story-body__link\">How Jeff Bezos took Amazon to the top<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45520594\" class=\"story-body__link\">The Bezos backlash: Is &#8216;big philanthropy&#8217; a charade?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; the couple&#8217;s statement said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    The couple got married in 1993, after meeting at a job interview<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again. We&#8217;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<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46793466\" class=\"story-body__link\">Amazon becomes most valuable public firm<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45514882\" class=\"story-body__link\">World&#8217;s richest man in $2bn charity move<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45514882\" class=\"story-body__link\">Last year they launched a charity project together,<\/a> the Day One Fund, with the aim of helping homeless families and building pre-schools in low-income communities.<\/p>\n<p>The couple have four children &#8211; three sons, and an adopted daughter. <\/p>\n<p>MacKenzie Bezos told Vogue Magazine in 2013 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/a-novel-perspective-mackenzie-bezos\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">the pair had met when he interviewed her for a job at a hedge fund in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They got engaged after three months of dating and married shortly after, in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>One year later he founded Amazon &#8211; which began as an online book retailer. <\/p>\n<p>The company has since expanded into an e-commerce giant.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-46814557\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Image caption The pair said that they had had a great life together Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are to divorce after a 25-year marriage. 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