As the shock wave of the news expanded over the last couple weeks, it would have been hard to miss that Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, has announced that him and his wife of twenty-five years were divorcing.
The couple lived in Washington, a community property state, and with Amazon being founded during the marriage it could mean that MacKenzie would be entitled to half of the value of the massive company. Stocks, personal property, and other forms of Bezos’s wealth would need to be accounted for as well. But many say that it would be in MacKenzie’s ultimate best interest to have Amazon continue to be successful and thrive, so diluting her soon-to-be ex-husband’s share of the company would be counter-productive.
