Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Mackenzie Bezos is selling Amazon shares


Mackenzie Bezos lowered shares of US tech firm Amazon. McKenzie has sold shares worth up to $ 40 million, according to Amazon's latest data from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. McKenzie, the former wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, still owns 19.5 million shares in the company.

Bezos held a single voting control over Mackenzie's shares during his divorce with Bezos last year. After divorcing Jeff Bezos, Mackenzie Bezos was on the list of some of the world's richest. In May last year, McKenzie said he would donate half the wealth. She got about $ 3 billion in assets from divorce. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates first started donating half of their wealth. Then Buffett and Gates called upon the world's richest people to donate some of their wealth. Mackenzie got a 4 percent stake in Amazon as a way to break her marriage to Jeff Bezos.

Earlier last year, Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie Bezos announced the end of marital relations. After spending 25 years together, one of the world's richest bezos and his wife spoke of social media. They have four children.

Bezos and McKenzie's identity while working at the hedge fund DEE. They were married in 1993. Jeff launched Amazon a year later. Jeff Bezos has not yet announced the donation of wealth, but praised his wife's decision.

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