MacKenzie Bezos announced she had finalized her divorce Thursday, tweeting out a statement showing Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, keeps 75% of the company’s shares and full control of the Washington Post.
“Grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff with support from each other,” said Mackenzie Bezos, 48, in the statement released on her Twitter account. “Happy to be giving him all of my interests in the Washington Post and Blue Origin, and 75% of our Amazon stock plus voting control of my shares to support his continued contributions with the teams of these incredible companies.”
— MacKenzie Bezos (@mackenziebezos) April 4, 2019
Jeff Bezos, 55, retweeted his ex-wife and also sent out a statement of his own. “In all our work together, MacKenzie’s abilities have been on full display,” he said. “She has been an extraordinary partner, ally, and mother. She is resourceful and brilliant and loving, and as our futures unroll, I know I’ll always be learning from her.”
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 4, 2019
The twin Bezos announcements appeared to mark a peaceful end to a messy breakup in January that involved $140 billion in assets and was triggered by his affair with media personality Lauren Sanchez, 49.
MacKenzie Bezos finished her statement saying, “Excited about my own plans. Grateful for the past as I look forward to what comes next.”
The couple announced the split two days after the National Enquirer informed the billionaire of an impending expose of intimate text messages he exchanged with Sanchez.
“I love you, alive girl. I will show you with my body, and my lips and my eyes, very soon,” he said in one text from April 2018. A month later, he wrote: “I want to smell you, I want to breathe you in. I want to hold you tight .… I want to kiss your lips …. I love you. I am in love with you.”
It later emerged that Sanchez’s brother Michael had leaked the texts.
