MacKenzie Bezos likely to be world's richest woman after divorce

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17 pointsHongwei6 comments

I mean, as Matt Levine put it, wasn't she already the world's richest woman?

If she has a claim to 50% in divorce, then she also had that claim prior to divorce.

Well forget about the "household net worth" vs "individual net worth" question for now and consider that this article digs up plenty of evidence that she wasn't just some supportive spouse in the background and that she was an indispensable figure in the early success of Amazon and probably deserves to be recognized as cofounder with an equal claim to the equity.

I bet Jeff did this on purpose. This could very well be another Pai situation.

Dont see how giving ur money away is good financially for him or amazon, they had some marriage issues prior to divorcing

Pai situation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Pai

Lou Pai was an Enron exec who divorced his wife and married a stripper. As a part of his divorce he sold off 250m of shares months before the value of them collapsed. He was (relatively) shielded from the insider training charges.

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