So, what could have been one of the biggest and messiest divorce stories of the decade has come to a rather quick conclusion. Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos have come to an agreement on their divorce settlement. If you need me to bring you up to speed, a $137 Billion Dollars were at stake. And in a Community Property State! The Bezos’, among other things, built the company Amazon during their marriage, acquired a lofty fortune, and Jeff Bezos acquired a lofty title along the way. The world’s richest man.
The World’s Richest Couple
While I personally thought of them as the world’s richest couple, if the divorce had just gone by the definition of the law, they would each have walked away worth about $69 billion in the divorce settlement, therefore splitting the difference and giving the title back to Microsoft owner, Bill Gates