Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are going through the end of divorce proceedings, and through it all, MacKenzie will be only the third richest woman in the world. The New York Post reports that for all the negative things her husband did, she could have made much more.
Jeff Bezos gets to keep 75 percent of their shared Amazon stock and also still about all of the almost 20 million shares, though she gets to take home $35 billion, according to the New York Post. Jeff Bezos will still have all of his Washington Post shares and also will have Blue Origin, his venture capitalist space company.
There is no indication as to what happens to the kids, following this divorce that was sprung mostly from another relationship that Jeff Bezos has with a woman from television.
“Grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff with support from each other and everyone who reached out to us in kindness, and looking forward to the next phase as co-parents and friends,” Bezos’s former wife tweeted.
“Happy to be giving him all of my interests in the Washington Post and Blue Origin, and 75% of our Amazon stock plus voting control of my shares to support his continued contributions with the teams of these incredible companies.”
The Jewish Voice reported when Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, claimed The National Enquirer tried to blackmail him after getting its hands on humiliating pictures of him with a woman other than his wife.
Unverified press reports have suggested that Bezos’ private texts to one-time television host Lauren Sanchez were leaked to the National Enquirer by Sanchez’s brother, Michael Sanchez.
For his part, Sanchez is said to have commented in an email that, “As the ‘Amazon investigators’ proved, I was never sent the numerous penis photos Jeff Bezos sent my sister Lauren. And I never had access to the penis photos. Therefore it is impossible for me to have provided Jeff Bezos’ penis photos to The National Enquirer.”
The feud escalated quickly. “When Jeff Bezos was battling the National Enquirer over the exposés about his private life, he had a simple message for his top lieutenants: Stop feeding the coverage,” wrote Fox News’ Howard Kurtz. “Stop responding to journalists’ questions. Stop engaging with the media even if you’re trying to correct a bad story.”
That order came as the Amazon founder believed he had tangible evidence that the supermarket tabloid was willing to abide by a cease-fire. It was then that Bezos authorized discussions with his adversaries about the nightmare that began when the paper exposed his affair with Lauren Sanchez.”
The Enquirer has seldom been afraid of controversy. Back in June of 2017, MSNBC morning-show hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough suggested in the pages of the Washington Post that members of the Trump administration had said they would publish a piece in the Enquirer about their as-yet-unacknowledged romance unless they “begged” for the story to be spiked. They didn’t, and the Enquirer did, indeed, run with the story.
