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"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.
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.” |
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01-10-2019, 02:57 PM | #77 |
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Have you ever run a household as a family? Shit is hard. And this is assuming she was a SAHM. This is how marriage works. 100% fair.
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The fact that there are people/attorneys that feel this way is why marriage is dying. I am a happily married man but should it not work out for any reason there is zero chance I would ever do it again. My wife knows that and my son knows that. Well, unless McKenzie wants to do it without a prenup.
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Are you guys all 12 year olds or something? I'm floored by this place.
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WTF? This place never ceases to amaze.
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None of my core group of friends have gotten divorced (I think pair has a shot at it), but other than that - we all waited ~2-5 years while we dated/got engaged/ got married, and I'm the only one with kids. I don't know if I'd ever marry again, but I have no reason why I'd want a divorce now.
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Perhaps not, but your wife might one day.
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There goes her prime status.
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Just to be clear - I mean that he couldn't grow his family while growing Amazon without his wife's support. Additionally, we have no idea what emotional help she gave throughout the time Bezos was driving a toyota to work.
Either way - for anyone to assume one way or the other that she doesn't deserve the half seems crazy to me. It's a marriage, with no pre-nup, so it's right down the middle (assuming no alimony or anything like that).
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I'm sure I'm looking through rose-colored glasses considering my parents and my in-laws aren't divorced (and my in-laws probably should have), but looking at the issues other people have in their relationships - they just don't exist in ours. I like to think it's due to our honesty and openness and making sure we're joint on big decisions and finances.
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This is all nice and fluffy and I am sure you give great marriage advice but the bottom line is divorce happens all the time and it should be crystal clear what both parties expectations are should it fail.
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