Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and novelist MacKenzie Bezos have announced they are divorcing, through a joint statement on Wednesday.
Jeff Bezos, 54, shared the announcement on his personal Twitter account shortly after 9am Eastern, signed by both him and MacKenzie.
'As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,' the statement read.
'If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again.'
Jeff Bezos is worth close to $140 billion. The statement did not mention how the two will split that fortune.
Much of that dollar amount comes from his 16 percent ownership stake in Amazon, which briefly became the second US-based company to reach a $1 trillion valuation in September, behind Apple in August.
Amazon is now valued at $777.8 billion, and passed Microsoft this week to become the world's biggest publicly traded company by market capitalization.
Amazon shares were down 0.2 percent in midday trading on Wednesday.
The divorce should have no material impact on the company and its shares, said Thomas Forte, an analyst at DA Davidson & Co.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and novelist MacKenzie Bezos have announced they are divorcing, through a joint statement on Wednesday, after 25 years of marriage. Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are shown at left in New York City in 2003, and are pictured at right the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California in March
Two-time author MacKenzie Bezos, 48, who won an American Book Award in 2006, was one of the first employees of Amazon at its founding, doing accounting for the start-up.
The two, who both graduated from Princeton University six years apart, live in Washington, which is a community property state, and that means all assets acquired during the marriage by either spouse are split equally unless there's a prenuptial agreement stating otherwise.
The division of the Bezos' assets will be complicated because the two will continue to pursue joint ventures, according to the joint statement.
'We feel incredibly lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for every one of the years we have been married to each other,' the statement continued.
'We've had such a great life together as a married couple, and we also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and adventures.
'Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.'
'As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,' the statement posted to Jeff's Twitter account on Wednesday read. 'If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it again'
'Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends,' the statement read. Jeff (second from right) and MacKenzie Bezos (third from left) are pictured with their three sons, the oldest of which is Preston, 18 (second from left), and their adopted daughter from China (third from right), attending the premiere of Paramount Pictures' 'Star Trek Beyond' at Embarcadero Marina Park South on July 20, 2016 in San Diego, California
Jeff Bezos is worth close to $140 billion. The statement did not mention how the two will split that fortune. Jeff (right) is pictured attending the Amazon Prime Video's Golden Globe Awards After Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6 in Beverly Hills, California with Mr. Robot series creator Sam Esmail (left), head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke (second from left), and the star of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan (second from right)
Sunday night Jeff was all smiles while at the Golden Globe Awards, hobnobbing with celebrities.
Amazon Prime Video' hosted its own after party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 6 in Beverly Hills, where he was photographed with Mr. Robot series creator Sam Esmail, head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, and the star of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan.
Jeff came up from virtually nothing to become the self-made billionaire, one hundred times over, that he is today.
He was born to a 16-year-old mother, Jacklyn Gise, and deadbeat dad, Ted Jorgensen, in Texas on January 12, 1964, as Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen.
When Jeff was 17 months old, his mom divorced Jorgensen, who belonged to a unicycle troupe and was making $1.25 per hour at a retail store, according to CNBC.
About three years later, Gise remarried Miguel Bezos in 1968.
Miguel had arrived in Miami in 1962 from Cuba, and he only knew one word of English: 'hamburger.'
When Jeff was four, Jorgensen agreed to allow Miguel to adopt his son, and that's how Jeff became became Jeffrey Preston Bezos.
Transformation: When Bezos' net worth reached $105.1 billion in January of 2018, CNN reported that he was the richest person in history. Jeff is shown at left during a press conference on August 23, 2000, and at right during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 13, 2017
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos married in 1993, one year before he founded Amazon, which he started from a garage in Seattle in 1994. Jeff is pictured with stacks of books in 1997
MacKenzie was born MacKenzie S. Tuttle on April 7, 1970, in San Francisco, California. Her father was a financial planner father and she had a stay-at--home mom.
By high school, she had moved east, and graduated from Hotchkiss School in Connecticut in 1988.
MacKenzie went on to graduate from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in English, with highest honors in 1992.
She studied under Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison, who said she was 'one of the best students I've ever had in my creative writing classes.'
Jeff also graduated from Princeton, but in 1986, and the two never crossed paths while studying there.
Jeff and MacKenzie met at work in New York City in 1992. Jeff was the first to interview MacKenzie at the investment management firm of DE Shaw.
At the time, Jeff was a vice president there, and MacKenzie had come on board as a research associate, Business Insider reported.
The two Princeton graduates were engaged three months later and married in 1993.
In a community property state like Washington,where the Bezos live and may file for divorce, all income earned and property acquired by either spouse during a marriage is owned by both spouses together. Jeff and MacKenzie are pictured in Sun Valley, Idaho on July 12, 2003
That was all before he founded Amazon, which he started from a garage in Seattle in 1994.
Speaking at an event in Berlin last April, Jeff said MacKenzie's support was instrumental when he founded Amazon, and that she did the accounting for the company in its first year.
'When you have loving and supportive people in your life, like MacKenzie, my parents, my grandfather, my grandmother, you end up being able to take risks,' he said at the event.
If the two file for divorce in their home state of Washington, that's significant because Washington is a community property state.
What that means is that all income earned and property acquired by either spouse during a marriage is owned by both spouses, together.
This is the default rule, which can be opted out of with a prenuptial agreement.
Community property is the default rule in Washington, and it can be opted out of with a prenuptial agreement. An aerial view of the wealthy neighborhood on Lake Washington in the state of Washingotn, where Jeff and MacKenzie live next door to Bill Gates, is shown
When Bezos' net worth reached $105.1 billion in January of 2018, CNN reported that he was the richest person in history.
His wealth has grown exponentially in the last five years, with Forbes estimating his net worth at $32 billion in March of 2014.
Now, he's worth $136.9 billion, and he and MacKenzie are thought to own more land, together, than almost anyone else in the United States of America, according to Business Insider.
If his $137 billion fortune is split equally with MacKenzie, it would mean Jeff would lose the title as world's richest person, and MacKenzie would gain the title of world's richest woman.b
But even with a $69 billion fortune, the Amazon founder would still be ranked fifth richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.
The two how have been known to live relatively modestly despite the monumental wealth they've acquired in recent years, reportedly lived in a one-bedroom rented home in Seattle through 1999.
To date, the two own at least five homes throughout the country.
To date, the two own five homes throughout the country, including the house shown in Beverly Hills which was acquired off-market from a neighbor for $12.9 million
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos broadened his Beverly Hills abode by acquiring a neighbor's off-market property for $12.9million
Bezos' beautiful original Mediterranean-style home (pictured), located on North Alpine Drive, was purchased back in 2007 for $24.45 million
On the west coast, they own property in Medina, Washington, and Beverly Hills. The two added on to an original purchase in Southern California from 2007, by buying an adjacent home in an off-market sale from a neighbor for $12.9 million.
In the South Central part of the US, they have a place in Van Horn, Texas, and on the east coast, they won property in DC, and Manhattan.
The two bought three condos in the Century building at 25 Central Park West in New York City's Upper West Side in 1999 under an LLC called 'Jetima.'
The purchase was from former Sony Music head Tommy Mottola for $7.65 million.
The Bezos also paid $23 million for the former Textile Museum in Kalorama, Washington, DC in 2016.
In the South Central part of the US, the Bezos have a ranch spanning 30,000 acres in Van Horn, Texas which was renovated with millions by the seller before they took it over
The two bought three condos in the Century building at 25 Central Park West in New York City's Upper West Side in 1999 under an LLC called 'Jetima.' The purchase was from former Sony Music head Tommy Mottola for $7.65 million
Jeff also owns the Washington Post, which he bought for $250 million in 2013.
He and MacKenzie share four children, including three sons and a daughter, who they adopted from China. Their oldest child, Preston, turned 18 in March.
MacKenzie is the author of 'The Testing of Luther Albright,' a psychological novel about the challenges facing a Sacramento, California father and his family after an earthquake, which won her the American Book Award in 2006.
In 2014 she launched Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization.
In September, Jeff committed $2 billion through the Bezos Day One Fund to helping homeless families and starting pre-schools for low-income communities. He had solicited ideas on Twitter in 2017 for ways to donate some of his wealth.
Last January, the couple donated $33 million to fund college scholarships for US high schoolers with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, an Obama-era program protecting young immigrants brought to the United States illegally by their parents.
In 2012, they donated $2.5 million to a Washington state campaign to legalize same-sex marriages there.
In November, Amazon picked America's financial and political capitals for massive new offices, branching out from its home base in Seattle with plans to create more than 25,000 jobs in both New York City and just outside Washington, DC.
Jeff also founded space company Blue Origin in 2000, and has been funneling $1 billion a year of his own fortune into pulling it out of start-up mode and into production.
It remains unclear how a division of assets between Jeff and MacKenzie might affect those plans.
The Bezos paid $23 million for the former Textile Museum in Kalorama, Washington, DC in 2016
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