The future ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, announced today on Twitter that she was going to leave him after their divorce 75% of the shares currently held by the couple as well as the rights to vote on all of their actions.
After her divorce, the american billionaire, Jeff Bezos will keep the custody of the family treasure: the control of the actions of the couple in Amazon. It therefore retains 25% of the shares that they held together, or 4% of the total shares of Amazon, which represents about $ 36 billion to the share price on Thursday mid-session.
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The process is finalised in three months
According to a document sent to the market authorities, the divorce papers were filed Thursday with the court and the procedure should be finalized in about three months. MacKenzie Bezos also plans to assign to Jeff Bezos all of the units that the couple owns in his own name in the Washington Post, and in the space company Blue Origin.
The unexpected announcement of the couple’s separation in January, after 25 years of marriage, had raised many questions about the terms of the split of his fortune, estimated at about $ 150 billion by Forbes magazine, and on the control of a company worth currently 890 billion in Stock, which he still holds 16%. MacKenzie Tuttle, his birth name, had met Jeff Bezos in 1992, before he founded what became an empire of commerce.
Jeff Bezos, after you have retweeted the message to his wife, in a separate message thanked him for “his support and kindness during this process”.
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