The divorce between Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie has been settled. According to the financial news agency Bloomberg , Bezos and his ex-wife have agreed to a payment of 38 billion dollars, which is equivalent to approximately 33.8 billion euros .
MacKenzie Bezos, 49, will receive nearly 19.7 million shares of Amazon.com . This translates to her having a 4% stake in the company, which is estimated to be worth 38.3 billion. However, the voting rights attached to the shares, as well as her shares in the Washington Post newspaper and the space company Blue Origin, have been given to her ex-husband.
With this payment, MacKenzie Bezos rises to number 22 on the Bloomberg bahrain phone number Billionaires Index . Jeff Bezos, for his part, will remain the richest man in the world, with 12% of the company.
MacKenzie Bezos wants to dedicate part of her fortune to charity
Last May, MacKenzie Bezos had already announced that she wanted to donate a large part of her fortune to charity . To do so, she joined the “ Giving Pledge ” initiative, founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in 2010. Its signatories commit to giving at least half of their assets to charitable purposes during their lifetime or in their will.
and have four children. The year after their wedding, in 1994, Jeff Bezos founded the online ordering company Amazon. Since then, the company has grown and become one of the largest internet companies in the world .
It was earlier this year when they both jointly announced their divorce via Twitter, apparently in an amicable manner: “We had a magnificent life together as a married couple and we also see a wonderful future as parents, friends and partners in businesses and projects .”