Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, has announced on his Twitter account that he is separated from his wife MacKenzie after 25 years of marriage.
“We want to tell people how to live our lives, we have decided to follow our life as friends, and we feel incredibly fortunate to have found each other. deeply grateful for each of the years we have been married, “he wrote on Twitter.
The richest man in the world, whose fortune is estimated at some 137 billion dollars, met MacKenzie in New York in 1992 and they married the following year.
“If we had known 25 years ago that we were going to separate, we would do it all over again. We had a great life together as a couple, and we see a great future on the horizon as parents, friends, companions of adventures and projects and as individuals in search of more adventures and projects. Although the denominations now change, we are still a family, and also dear friends, ” he added on the tweet.
By the end of 2018, Jeff Bezos unseated Bill Gates as the richest American, according to Forbes, by increasing his $ 78.5 billion fortune in the last year alone.