With $137 Billion at Stake, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos to Divorce
- Amazon says its founder remains focused, engaged with business
- If couple split wealth, Gates becomes world’s richest person
Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing after a relationship that started at a New York hedge fund and is ending a little more than a year after he became the world’s richest person.
“After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,” the pair tweeted on Wednesday.