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2019
History of a divorce worth $39 billion
In July, 2019 the judge of the Washington district King signed the act of annulment of marriage. At Mackenzie's divorce refused to apply for shares in the The Washington Post newspaper and the space company of Bezos Blue Origin. You will not call publishing business a lung, and Blue Origin is unprofitable – Bezos Jef annually invests in it about $1 billion. From 16% of the stocks of Amazon belonging to Bezos, Mackenzie will take away a quarter. At the same time the ex-husband has right to vote its packet.
As a result Jeff Bezos had 12% of stocks of online retailer worth nearly $115 billion. It saved a title of the first-ever rich man, without having given itself(himself) to overtake Bill Gates with his $107 billion (the truth if the founder of Microsoft did not spend tens of billions for charity, he would be an undisputed leader).
4% of stocks of Amazon which departed Mackenzie are estimated at $39 billion. She took the 22nd place in the list of the richest people of the world according to Bloomberg and became the third among the richest women. She only concedes to the successor of the empire of L'Oréal Francoisa Bettancour-Myers (nearly $50 billion) and the only daughter of the founder of Walmart supermarkets Alyce Walton (about $44 billion). The closest competitor, the granddaughter of the founder of Mars Jacqueline Mars, owns $24 billion, and the richest woman of China Jan Huiyan – $22 billion.
Mackenzie will take away only 25% of a status of Jeff Bezos, but deserves a half – without it there would be no Amazon – approximately with such heading there was Business Insider. As Warren Buffett and Cheryl Sendberg spoke, the most important solution which you can make is to select whom to marry. Buffett somehow recognized that he without the first wife Suzy who died in 2004 would not earn a status[1].
Donation of a half of a status on charity — $18 billion
On May 28, 2019 Mackenzie Bezos announced the decision to give a half of the status on charity. It is about the amount approximately of $18 billion.
 | There are many resources which each of us can take from our safes to share them with others: time, attention, knowledge, patience, creative potential, talent, efforts, humour, compassion. In addition to any assets which life grew in me I have a disproportionate quantity of money which can share — the ex-wife of the founder and the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos said. |  |
Mackenzie Bezos joined the charitable The Giving Pledge project ("A donation oath") which participants are obliged to offer at least a half of a status on charity. A philanthropic campaign in 2010 there began the American billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. By the end of May, 2019 204 persons, including Michael Bloomberg, George Lucas, David Rockefeller and Mark Zuckerberg became its participants in total.
Donations can be made as during lifetime, and to bequeath after death. The donator can select the countries and programs which he wants to support.
By the end of May, 2019 a fortune Mackenzie Bezos is estimated in $35 billion (according to Reuters agency) and $36 billion (Forbes).
| | Mackenzie she intends to become surprising, thoughtful and useful in the field of charity. And I am proud of it — Jeff Bezos on the Twitter blog wrote, commenting on the solution of the ex-wife. | |
Jeff Bezos long time was the only thing from five richest people of the USA which did not sign "A donation oath". Only in 2018 against the background of charges of use of the state influence and pressure upon competitors the businessman offered $2 billion for educational programs to take away from himself a barrage of criticism.[2]
End of the section of property
On April 4, 2019 Mackenzie Bezos called conditions of the section of property after the divorce. The former spouse of the head of Amazon got 25% of a joint share in the company. It is about 4% of stocks worth more than $35 billion.
By the beginning of April, 2019 the 16 percent share of Bezos in Amazon costs about $143 billion that does the businessman by the richest person in the world. After completion of a divorce it will possess 12% (about $107 billion).
At the same time Mackenzie Bezos agreed to leave to Jeff all actions of Washington Post newspaper and space company Blue Origin and also to give him the right to vote the packet belonging to it in Amazon.
In the agreement between the former spouses it is also said that if Mackenzie Bezos wants to sell the share in Amazon, then the potential buyer should sign the agreement with Jeff Bezos and assign to it a voting right on stocks.
| | I am glad that process of termination of my defects with Jeff came to the end — with our mutual support and all who to us were kind — wrote to Mackenzie. | |
According to her, she "with gratitude looks in the past and looks forward that will be farther". Jeff Bezos on the page on Twitter also thanked the ex-wife "for kindness and support" and noted that within 25 years of defects of Mackenzie was "a wonderful partner, the ally and mother".
The Reuters agency calls this divorce proceedings the biggest in the history in terms of the size of the separated property.
The agreement signed between the former spouses Bezos is brought to trial, follows from the message sent to Amazon to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The arrangement should be approved within 90 days, the document says.
After the divorce Mackenzie Bezos will take the third place in the rating of the richest women of the planet according to Bloomberg, having conceded only to the successor of cosmetic company LʼOreal Francoisa Bettancour-Meyer ($52.9 billion) and the daughter of the founder of Walmart Alice Walton ($45 billion).[3]
Mackenzie Bezos will become the richest woman in the world after the divorce
On January 9, 2019, when it was announced Mackenzie and Jeff Bezos's divorce, the approximate size of a status of the spouse of the richest person on the planet became known.
According to the Bloomberg news agency, after annulment of marriage Mackenzie Bezos can become the richest woman in the world with a status in the amount of $69 billion.
At the same time it is unknown on what conditions Mackenzie and Jeff will divide property, including a packet from 16% of stocks of Amazon. The lawyers polled by the edition say that they without agreement on the section of property of the spouse, most likely, will halve assets.
Observers of Bloomberg and Forbes estimate Jeff Bezos's condition of about $137 billion as of January 10, 2019.
To this date the richest woman on Earth the granddaughter of the founder of the producer of cosmetics of L'Oreal Francoisa Bettenkur Myers is considered: its assets are estimated at $45.6 billion.
The index of billionaires of the Bloomberg agency (Bloomberg Billionaires Index) which is updated daily on the basis of assessment of the assets belonging to entrepreneurs includes 66 women. Most of them became very rich as a result of the death of the spouse or a divorce: only six women included in rating earned a status independently.
| | If to divide actions in half, its control over the company will decrease, and it will also reduce the cost of all asset — the economic observer of CNBC channel Robert Frank says. — So the question for lawyers of both parties will be not only in that how many it will turn out if to halve everything and what will be an insurance premium and if it loses a share block in this company whether the cost of all asset for both of them will reduce it. Lawyers will also concentrate on it. | |
Lawyers believe that Jeff Bezos's divorce will become the most expensive in the history. The former record is connected with annulment of marriage of the dealer in Alec Vildenstein's art: he paid the ex-wife nearly $4 billion[4]
2020: Mackenzie Bezos is the richest woman on the planet
On July 13, 2020 Mackenzie Bezos became the richest woman on the planet, having been ahead of the granddaughter of the founder of L'Oreal Francoisa of Betancourt-Mayer. Their status made $65.2 billion and $64.8 billion respectively, the Forbes rating of Real-Time which is updated in real time on the basis of assessment of the assets belonging to entrepreneurs demonstrates.
A year later after the most expensive divorce in the history which came to the end in July, 2019, the status of the ex-wife of the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos almost doubled thanks to rapid growth of quotations of the company. So, only from July 1 to July 12 securities of Amazon rose in price for 15%. On July 14 market capitalization of online retailer reached $1.66 trillion.
On July 12 Mackenzie Bezos became the richest woman in the USA, having displaced the daughter of the founder of Walmart supermarket chain Alice Walton.
The status of Jeff Bezos, the richest person of the planet, by 4 p.m. Moscow time on July 14, 2020 is estimated by Forbes at $183.9 billion. It is record level for participants of the Forbes list honor in 40 years of calculations of statuses of billionaires.
The more the status Mackenzie Bezos will grow, the more it, as expected, will offer. Earlier Bezos signed Giving Pledge — a promise to give at least a half of the status on charity. Jeff Bezos of Giving Pledge did not sign.[5]
Mackenzie Scott which enters the five of the richest women of the planet according to Forbes offered $1.7 billion to charitable organizations. The New York Times with reference to the statement Scott published on the Medium portal reports about it.
Money was distributed among 116 non-profit organizations. More than $586 million were directed to the help in fight against racial inequality, nearly $400 million — to the organizations advancing economic mobility, $133 million — NPOs which maintain gender equality.
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