Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is slated to get a divorce from MacKenzie Bezos, his wife of 25 years, the pair announced.
“We want to make people aware of a development in our lives. As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,” their tweet, posted on Bezos’s official account, reads.
“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,” said the tweet.
It continued: “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. Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.”
According to NBC News, the couple met in 1992 when MacKenzie was working at investment firm D.E. Shaw. When Amazon was launched, she became one of the first employees at the online retailer.
Bezos is currently the world’s richest man, worth in excess of $100 billion. He launched Amazon in 1994, originally selling only books, before transforming the company into one of the world’s preeminent online retailers.
MacKenzie told Vogue magazine in 2013 about how they first met.
They were engaged for three months before getting married. After the marriage, he left his job on Wall Street and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he started Amazon.
There is no evidence that Jeff and MacKenzie signed a prenuptial agreement, which would mean their wealth would be split equally between the two.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos have four children, including three sons and a daughter adopted from China.
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