Not always a woman after the end of the divorce process remains with a painful feeling of separation and without a decent condition. After a divorce, Mackenzie Bezos received a fairly round amount. Currently, the state obtained after the divorce proceedings has allowed her to enter the top three richest women in the world.
Happy together
Mackenzie and Jeff got married in 1993. At that time, the man was already relatively wealthy. At the same time, he was still far from a billionaire. He worked in the management team of one of the large companies.
1 year after the wedding with Mackenzie, Jeff decided to change his life and quit his job. In the same year, he launches a project that will later become world famous. It's about Amazon.com. Currently, without this service, millions of people cannot imagine their lives. Thanks to this project, Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos were able to earn a huge fortune.
As a result, they lived together for more than 25 years and gave birth to 3 sons and adopted a girl.
Everything comes to an end
Surprisingly, the richest couple broke up for the most common reasons. This is a betrayal by Jeff Bezos. After the separation, a successful businessman admitted that the reason for his separation from Mackenzie was his relationship with Laura Sanchez, who, incidentally, was also married at that time.
Ultimately, Mackenzie decided to file for divorce. At the same time, the former spouses made a joint statement that they will remain good friends.
The largest compensation in history
Since Jeff Bezos is currently the richest man on the planet. After relatively short negotiations between the spouses, it became known that Mackenzie will receive 36.8 billion US dollars. This is not about cash, but rather a fairly large stake in Amazon.com.
Despite the fact that Mackenzie Bezos has become one of the largest shareholders of a well-known American company, she does not plan to make serious changes to the service or go against the opinion of her ex-husband. She probably hopes that Jeff will be able to further increase her condition.
In the top three
Thanks to divorce, Mackenzie has become one of the richest women on the planet. Her capital of 36.8 billion dollars allowed her to take 3rd place among the wealthiest representatives of the beautiful half of humanity.
By size of condition, it is second only to 2 women. We are talking about Francoise, the heiress of the family beauty empire L'Oréal, and Alice Walton, who is the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. Their fortune is 53.7 and 50.4 billion dollars, respectively. It is possible that with the growth of Amazon.com, Mackenzie will be able to rise even higher in the list of the richest women on the planet.
Why so much money?
As can be assumed, Mackenzie herself will not independently increase the resulting state. This woman is also writing novels. As a result, it is not surprising that Mackenzie has already announced that she is going to participate in a charity project launched by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.
Both of these billionaires are going to give up half of their personal wealth to the construction of social housing for the homeless. It is worth noting that earlier Jeff Bezos already claimed that he was going to spend at least $ 2 billion on the development of this project. Unfortunately, so far the richest man on the planet has not realized his good intentions.It should not be considered that Bezos is alien to philanthropy. He often acted as the main sponsor of large charity projects. Probably Mackenzie, who has a rather soft character, will also spend a certain part of her money to help those in need.