Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is getting divorced; here’s how he became world’s richest man

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The Twitter post in which Jeff Bezos told the world that he and his wife of 25 years, Mackenzie, were divorcing sparked immediate speculation about the effect on his status as the world’s richest man.

It was a topic on which the Twitter post was mum, saying only that the couple expect to remain “partners in ventures and projects” as well as friends. “Though the labels might be different, we remain a family,” they said.

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