Billionaire Jeff, Mackenzie Bezos No Prenup, $137 Billion

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ , .The couple will file divorce docs in Washington, where community property rules . . . translation - - all earnings and income during the marriage are split 50 / 50 .

When the couple married in 1993 - - 6 months after meeting - - Jeff wasn ' t even a millionaire . He didn ' t become one until 1997 , so dreams of being the richest man in the world were pie in the sky .

The division of assets will be incredibly complicated . Aside from cold hard cash , the former couple is hardcore baronial - - they own 400 , 000 acres of property , making them 2 of the biggest landholders in the country. Valuing that land is complicated .

As we reported , Bezos is in a relationship with former " So You Think You Can Dance " host Lauren Sanchez, who' s estranged from talent mogul Patrick Whitesell . Our sources say Lauren and Jeff started hooking up in the latter half of 2018 , after they separated from their respective spouses . Lauren and Patrick are also in the middle of divorcing .

We ' re also told both Patrick and MacKenzie have known about Jeff and Lauren ' s relationship . It ' s still awkward - - Lauren and Patrick were super close to Jeff and MacKenzie for a decade . Bezos has said his divorce is super amicable.

Via TMZ.com

Again Jeff Bezos now richest man, replaces Bill Gates

Amazon Chief Executive Officers, CEO, Jeff Bezos is now the richest person in the world for the second time. Amazon stock opened up more than 8%higher than Thursday’s close, adding nearly $7 billion to Bezos’ net worth overnight.

According Forbes, Bezos had a net worth of $89.7 billion, as of the start of trading on Friday. Bill Gates has a net worth of $90.1 billion, up $550 million from yesterday. Then by 10:15 a.m. by Friday, Amazon stock had climbed nearly 2% since the market opened, adding $900 million to Bezos’ net worth and putting him in the No. 1 spot with a net worth of $90.6 billion versus Gates’ $90.1 billion at that time.

Amazon stock surged in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company reported strong third quarter earnings. Amazon reported $43.7 billion in revenue, well above the $42.1 billion analysts expected.

Bezos became the richest person in the world for the first time three months ago as Amazon stock hit an all-time high on July 27, just before Amazon reported its second quarter earnings.

But Bezos’ first time at the top of Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List only lasted a few hours. Bezos first joined the Forbes 400 in 1998, one year after Amazon went public, with a net worth of $1.6 billion.

Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos now the Richest Person in the World

There is a new name at the top of the world wealth league. The founder of Amazon has overtaken Microsoft’s Bill Gates to claim the title of world’s richest person. Jeff Bezos leapfrogged Gates, who has been the richest man on the planet since 2013, after a rise in the share price of Amazon ahead of its latest results due later on Thursday.

According to a real-time billionaires index compiled by Forbes, the rise pushed the value of Bezos’s fortune to $91bn (£69bn) – compared with Gates’ wealth of $90bn. Their riches are calculated on the share prices of their respective companies and at the current values, Bezos’s stake is twice as big as the carmarker Ford.

Bezos – born in 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico – keeps a relatively low profile, but has used some of the wealth he has amassed to buy the Washington Post and invest in space travel through Blue Origin, a company he founded in 2000.He founded Amazon in 1994 when he sold books from his garage in Seattle before expanding into a huge range of other products and capturing the global rush to shop online. Amazon now accounts for 43% of everything sold online in the US and 64 million people have signed up for its Prime service, which gives access to free deliveriesand video streaming.

Amazon shares have soared this year, making the company worth more than $500bn and boosting Bezos’s wealth as he owns 17% of the company. He also has a number of other investments, including in Google, Uber, Twitter and Airbnb, worth more than $5bn.At the start of 2017, Bezos was ranked fourth-richest in the world, behind Gates, the investor Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega, who founded Inditex, the company behindretailer Zara.