"Holy No Prenup, Batman!" Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos file for 137billion dollar divorce
Biggest divorce settlement in history if there isn't a prenup, there doesn't appear to be. :eek:
THE NEW YORK POST Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie announce divorce — unclear if the couple has a prenuptial agreement By 0 and Lia Eustachewich Published: Jan 9, 2019 11:49 a.m. ET https://www.marketwatch.com/story/je...ent-2019-01-09 The Amazon founder and his wife are divorcing after 25 years of marriage. Amazon AMZN, +0.47% CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, the couple announced Wednesday. “We want to make people aware of a development in our lives,” tweeted Bezos, the world’s richest person. “As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separate, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends.” He continued: “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. If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again.” The 54-year-old sits at the top of Forbes world’s billionaires ranking, with a real-time worth of $137.4 billion. It’s unclear if the couple has a prenuptial agreement. They reside in Washington state, which is a “community property state” — meaning divorcing couples without a prenup split assets 50-50, TMZ reported. The Bezos own five homes in Medina, Washington, Beverly Hills, Van Horn, Texas, DC and Manhattan — making Jeff the 25th biggest landowner in the nation, Business Insider said. The couple met in New York at hedge fund D.E. Shaw when Jeff, the company’s vice president, interviewed MacKenzie for a job, according to Business Insider. MacKenzie, a Princeton graduate, landed the gig as a research associate and the two office neighbors fell in love — fast. MacKenzie, who was 23 at the time and made the first move by asking Jeff out to lunch, was smitten. “My office was next door to his, and all day long I listened to that fabulous laugh,” she recalled in a 2013 interview with Vogue. “How could you not fall in love with that laugh?” Within three months, they were engaged and, three months later in 1993, they were hitched. Jeff also gushed about his longtime love. “I think my wife is resourceful, smart, brainy, and hot, but I had the good fortune of having seen her résumé before I met her, so I knew exactly what her SATs were,” he told Vogue. In 1994, the newlyweds quit their Wall Street jobs and moved cross country to Seattle, where Jeff launched Amazon. He hired MacKenzie as an accountant — as one of the online bookstore’s first employees. “To me, watching your spouse, somebody that you love, have an adventure — what is better than that?” MacKenzie told CBS. The couple went on to have four children. MacKenzie, 48, is an award-winning novelist who penned the “The Testing of Luther Albright” in 2005 and “Traps” eight years later. At Princeton, where Jeff also attended, she studied under legendary author Toni Morrison, who told Vogue that she was “one of the best students” she ever had. Last year, Jeff and MacKenzie launched the homeless charity Day One Fund together. In his statement on Wednesday, he hinted that he and his soon-to-be ex-wife would continue working together. “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,” Jeff wrote. “Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.” |
I would **** him for a few years for that kind of scratch.
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There's a point at which the money becomes irrelevant. If he goes from $137 billion to $70, is it really going to change a single thing about his life? Yeah, no.
More important is the voting control over Amazon. That's all that likely matters to him. |
Community Property state FTL
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My new wife, I'm going to meet,greet and marry for love and money!
I love money! :D |
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Unless she had direct input in the Amazon business there is no way she should get 70 billion dollars. Complete bullshit.
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throw her like 2 or 3 billion dollars and call it good. I mean what kind of utter bullshit is it that a woman can marry a man and take half of everytihng they have
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I'd think for that kind of money I'd find somebody to make her quietly die of natural causes.
Darn, and I loved her so. |
I look forward to hearing her name on all the Forbes most wealthy lists, along with the Walton kids.
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A billion dollars is enough for any person to live like a King/Queen for the rest of their life. |
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Amazon is going to sell nothing but handmade soaps and knitted scarves once this is all over and done.
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She pushed out 4 of his kids and was there from the beginning.
She deserves 1/2 of everything. |
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Even 200 million per kid with another 500 million for her might be acceptable. Not 70 billion. |
70B seems right to me.
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Assuming there's no prenup, the outstanding tab is half of everything you accumulated during your lengthy marriage. Man up and pay that woman.
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Seriously though, why in the hell do any of you care about what she gets? They're both going to end up with more than they'll ever be able to spend.
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Now, in an extreme case like this he could be selling $500 million a year of stock to generate income, and it'll last his whole life. But he's still selling the stock to do that, which is selling an asset. The other $136.5 billion isn't making him a penny to cover his day to day living csts if I understand it right, unless there's some accounting chicanery you can do when you're rich like that. If the guy wants to retain control of the company, maybe he'll have to get a night job at Chick Fil A or something. |
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So your options are (1) live life with a measly $70 billion, or (2) risk going to jail for the rest of your life, and you choose option 2? That's some good decision-making going on there. |
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Sure, but the law doesn't really adjust for absurd wealth, so it is what it is. |
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I don't think that's the case here Donger.
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Yeah, it gets complicated under these circumstances. The control aspect is the only one Bezos should really care about. Certainly his wife shouldn't get a seat on the board and have as much influence as she would nominally be entitled to if she owned X% of the company. My assumption, since it sounds like everything is amicable, is that they are structuring around this somehow. Let's face it, nobody "needs" anywhere near $70 billion in cash, so maybe there is a contract that he will pay for her expenses up to, whatever, $1 billion per year, and that otherwise the stock transfers to her upon his death. I have no idea. I've never even thought about how to handle soemthing crazy like this. You might be able to do something clever involving putting the shares into a trust where she gets the economic benefits of the stock while he retains voting control. Maybe. Nuts. I'll post about a FAR worse situation. |
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Might help if there was a couple bundles of hundreds on the nightstand |
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I would toss her salad to have access to that bank account. |
Poor Bezos only left with $60 BILLION :)
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So business owner has wife, has several sons with her. Gets divorced. Marries wife #2. Has one child, a daughter, with wife #2. Daughter never works in the biz.
Boys join the biz and help it grow ALOT. Idiot dad/owner doesn't do anything with stock except own 100% of it himself. He gets old, semi-retires, still owns 100% while the boys take over the show. Wife decides she wants divorce. Now, they were married for a LONG time, but the daughter is an adult, and the wife is now like 80. She doesn't need much to survive for the rest of her life comfortably. Unfortunately, due to a total lack of planning and forethought by the father (and his sons) the wife is now entitled to own 50% of the company. Ignoring the actual biz owner and his wife (let's face it, they're well off regardless of this whole process) -- the real upshot of this is that 50% of the value of the biz at the time of the divorce gets transferred -- really -- to the daughter, with the remaining 50% being split among the boys. Now the boys get the own the biz and can continue to grow it and earn from it, but that's a real ****ing over for them, especially since they are now PAYING the daughter for 50% of the growth that they massively contributed to creating. Plan ahead kids. Use lawyers. Be smart. Or you know, watch your kids sit on a spiked dildo because you're either too dumb or because you want to continue to exert power/control long after you should've given it to your kids. |
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This is just maddening. Just maddening. Marriage is a piece of shit out dated social custom.
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Doesn't make it right but true. Antiquated law that should be changed. |
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I sent her a dic pic, list of referrals from sexual partners, and my leash size....
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You could buy a nice shovel and an alibi for a lot less than 70B
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...lots of people just suck at it. no pun intended. |
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It follows a very prevalent and predictable pattern of a driven, successful man who has to give half of his earnings to a woman whose greatest accomplishment, by all rights, is marrying said man. I mean, what accountant and novelist do you know is worth billions of dollars? Per Google search, Phil Knight is the wealthiest accountant at $25 billion, but he wasn't just an accountant, and he didn't make that money working as an accountant for a business that somebody else (never mind his own spouse) had already started. And the wealthiest novelist is J.K. Rowling at $1 billion, but that's Harry ****ing Potter. What the **** did Mrs. Bezos ever write? As it pertains to middle class divorces, it follows a common theme of a man doing all the heavy lifting, making all the money, assuming all the risk, and then being compelled by threat of legal violence to give half of it to a woman whose contribution nowhere near resembles an equal partnership to justify a 50:50 split. |
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When you are that rich the hot wife you once had grows older and after 25 years you realize you could have a much younger hottie. Time to lease instead of buy
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I only have one word of advice: ESCORTS :D
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Radio guy said this morning if they split the assets down the middle he would end up being 4th richest person in the world and she'd be 5th.
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They have 4 kids, when they die, that's where the money goes. They could have a few more with other people but this isn't like an old dude marrying some young chick for a couple years. It's all going to end up with their kids eventually anyways.
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If they were in love, and grew their wealth and power together, then I think the prenup is irrelevant. The people who overly focus on prenups probably won't have fulfilling marriages
How hot she is is kind of irrelevant as well given how long they were married. That mindset is what gets rich guys screwed. Can't complain about shallow women and gold diggers when you're choosing your wife for the wrong reasons |
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I'm just blown away that anyone can be this jaded. |
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