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The world's wealthiest person - Jeff Bezos - and his wife MacKenzie have announced they are dissolving their marriage.
In a joint statement posted on the Amazon founder and Chief Executive Officer's Twitter handle, the two say they have mutually agreed to end their 25-year union.
“After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,” the couple says in the statement.
They add: "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 two met in the early 90s while working at D.E. Shaw, a hedge fund based in New York before they got married. Bezos, 54, and MacKenzie, 48, later moved to Seattle, where Bezos established Amazon.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranks Bezos as the current richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $137 billion. However, this divorce could end up stripping him off the title.
The couple has four children.
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Are you sure your "leadership" comment belongs here? I am just saying.
Good catch @sober. I need to sober up!
Jeff Bezos suffers from CULT Personality. Therefore No sympathy fir a Man like him. He is the greatest Slave MASTER of this day and his Amazon warehouses the Cottonfields. He is a master User, Sucker and MANIPULATOR of his Slave labor. He is the most Oppressive Emmployer of the 21st century. His company General and Assistant managers are Slave master Assistants with CLUELESS slave Superrvisors or "Ambassadors" to boot. The Pay is a Fecal pay; especially to those Slaves fresh from "off the Boat"; it's PEANUTS compared to what these Amazon SLAVES deserve. You say Ngw'ee! to those Slave supervisors and they "Crack the Whip". And you're sent to Ship dock for Harder or Hardest labor/ or screamed at for Termination! Jeff Bezos is Heartless; and so are AMAZON warehouses and the Supervisors.
True. The $15 minimum per hr Amazon is paying its Hardworkers is not Worth it (except for those Lazy associates). Amazon needs to Up the Pay to at least $20 or $25 an hr.
Federal minimum wage is $7.25. D.C has the highest minimum wage at $13.25 I believe so Amazon pays $1.75 more per hour.
While you still whining and nobody forced you to go work at the Amazon 'plantation', come I hire you at my duka. $8.00/hr na insurance ujipange.
He has another woman. Cut your losses and walk MacKenzie. Lucky for you, it will be in Billions. I know many women like to stick around their wealthy husbands and endure all the bull crap but when there's another woman in the picture tembea mamie. Hawezi dip huko na a dip kwako. That's just simply being human unless you have decided to lower yourself to something else madam.
And interestingly, the new Jeff Bezos woman has a husband too. Wazungu...they’re not that innocent.
@Mchumi- I agree with you. Amazon is a slave driver. Jeff Bezo has so much money, but uses cheap labor for his employees. He’s shining out there being on top in wealth, while his employees are in tears.
One thing I like about wazungu though is that they don’t persevere in bad marriages until death separates. I see most Kenyan couples suffer so much in the eyes of being a “married couple”
The enemy of my enemy becomes my friend is in play here. Who are these folks representing? Their leadership is as dead as a dodo!