New York (Web Desk): Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced divorce after a 25-year marriage.
Jeff Bezos, 54, and MacKenzie Bezos, 48 met while working at the hedge fund DE Shaw prior to Bezos’s founding of Amazon.
The couple, who have four children, met while working at the hedge fund DE Shaw prior to Bezos’s founding of Amazon.
Jeff Bezos is rated the world’s wealthiest man by Forbes and Bloomberg, with a fortune estimated at around $137 billion.
Amazon this week passed Microsoft to become the world’s biggest publicly traded company by market capitalization.
MacKenzie Bezos is the author of two books, including “The Testing of Luther Albright,” a psychological novel about the challenges facing a Sacramento, California father and his family after an earthquake.
She was one of the first employees of Amazon at its founding and in 2014 launched Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization.