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Word came today via the newly verifiedTWITTERaccount@mackenziebezos about the final divorce terms for Mackenzie and Jeff Bezos. Surprising to some are the terms that derive to Mackenzie 25% of the Amazon stock worth about $137 billion, making her the fourth most wealthy woman in the world, according to this report.
Love a rich life, the overcrowded life to hate. Believe in rumination and gain twice the beauty of all things when given of the time to ruminate ~ Anais Nin (paraphrased)
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By choice of marriage, MacKenzie (Mac) became a popular* hostess at relentless.com. And given a first name that sounds like a last, destiny followed with the role of nurturing matriarch for an amazing internet domain. Identity found: history says Mac was one of the first employees of Cadabra, also known as AMAZONand she helped author the URL that survives as an active company link stored in the worldwide domain registry archives. * Mac could not prevent the popularity as the co-creator of the domain and the spouse of the company founder.
Without fanfare, Mac’s first job was as a companion, driver, and navigator. And so Amazon was born. Mackenzie and Jeff flew to Texas to borrow a car from his father, and then they drove to Seattle. Bezos was making revenue projections in the passenger seat the whole way, though the couple did stop to watch the sunrise at the Grand Canyon. While in transit, Jeff and Mac literally jump-started their life and book-selling fictional enterprise during transit from the USA Right Coast to the Left Coast in 1993.
Burning fuel at the rate of $1.17 per gallon for some 1,700 miles, the newlyweds drove on nonrenewable energy and a passion for their enterprising dream. Read their story to learn Jeff and MacKenzie Tuttle Bezos met in 1992 when they were both employees at the New York City hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Jeff worked his way up to senior vice president at the firm while MacKenzie worked there as a research associate. Numerous SocialCurrentSee® accounts of their married life reveal that Jeff always said, “she is very smart!” MacKenzie the introvert; Jeff an extrovert to explain his entrepreneurial bent.
Now, Mackenzie S. Bezos, 49, is an American novelist, published but not widely, even though her works sell on Amazon. In 2014, she founded the anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution and serves as executive director of that group today. In 1993, MacKenzie married Jeff Bezos, who later became the founder and CEO of Amazon, eventually making them the richest couple in the world. They announced their intent to divorce in January 2019.
Ironically, the message Mackenzie Bezos cast for the anti-bullying cause may have had a partial origin with the husband Jeff Bezos, once known as a leadership tyrant during the early Amazon days, but an iconic entrepreneur today that has learned deference and patience, possibly much from MacKenzie. Yet, the common definition of relentless may also enlighten the reason for this mission.
Only in this enlightened era of ubiquitous SocialCurrentSee® can one expect such archives of rumination, whatever your source of social media.
A footnote for this subject is the pervasive hyper story about family divorce for the opening quarter of 2019, the Jeff and MacKenzie (Tuttle) Bezos breakup. The upper case status of this story eventually will document a legendary account of how the couple split up something north of $140B and the fallout of that union for the world’s largest online retail enterprise, AMAZON. Reportedly, some investors in that domain worry even if the couple is not. What could they possibly worry about.
As common as divorce is today (something just shy of 50% of marriages ends this way in the USA in 2019), it is not every day that a high-profile divorce story like the AMAZON founding couple breakup makes the headlines.
The media attention given the Bezos misfortune (forgive the pejorative attribution) will extend for some time with internet and mainstream media giving both tawdry and telling accounts of how the couple navigates this phase of life. Their “upper case” status will ensure few details unreported while millions of other divorce situations plod along in the “lower case” realm.
Mackenzie Bezos is a published author and novelist but that side of her life has some curious anonymity outside elite circles. A natural introvert, she is obviously not depending upon income from her writings. Not now at least. In contrast, the Jeff Bezos story captures more attention than almost any mega-billionaire in the world today and the column inches are only rising. Although he owns many media outlets (including the Washington Post), Jeff Bezos needs no publicity boost. In fact, President Donald Trump may rank as the most prolific promoter of the Bezos brand and you can’t gain a media profile creator more notable than that.
Her 2013 work, “Traps,” is about three women, at first about as disconnected as one could imagine, and each in her own way striking, even riveting. “In very few words and only a few scenes, dialogue and secondary characters ringing true and three-dimensional, I found myself curious about each character as a person,” wrote one book reviewer on Mac’s Amazon page.
Despite the recent events in the Bezos marriage, sources may speculate the title of this work was potentially prophetic. Now, the pending accounts of the Bezos divorce will mirror the stories of many other famous disunions (literature and the press are full of these). Unreported will be millions of lower case divorce stories of the pedestrian, plebeian type, one of which is the subject of the journal to follow.
The Bezos family rift will get much-heralded attention in mainstream and social media, but millions of others facing the same family drama would ask anonymity. Details of their case are not common interest developments.
Mackenzie Bezos is one day closer to becoming the richest woman in the world even if the unauthorized Twitter account for her is no more | https://t.co/BuAtxDHNle
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Eschew the “IKEA” feeling, staring at a big box full of disjointed pieces not confident of the energy, patience, experience to bring everything together ~Ruminator (paraphrased)
… according to this report and other press accounts linked below.
Bezos Divorce Might Be Handled as ‘Quickly as An Amazon Delivery’
Affluence and influence will always define Jeff and Mackenzie, no
matter where or when you read the Bezos chronicles about their future
life. Now, Jeff and Mackenzie will lead separate, but always connected
lives. Together, they will remain at the top of the 1% group in the
world.
Although the Bezos divorce is a fait accompli, speculation
abounds about asset division between the couple: Amazon, Washington
Post, Blue Origin, or Bezos Expeditions, all of these or none. Lawyers
and financial planners will gain lucrative compensation sorting this
out. The final division of wealth between the Bezos’ will make for
continuous chatter and commentary, some of which follows here.
There
is mindful conflict in determining whether written rumination about the
Bezos divorce is palatable, not because the story redux is elusive or
sensational but because one struggles to understand it without mining
psychological clues.
Granted, a certain confirmation bias is at
work, the belief that the life of one Mackenzie Bezos—one half of the
richest couple in the world, partner to a man who remade retail,
refashioned labor norms, even capitalism itself, and upended the
mega-industry that publishes books—just has to be a victim with a
powerful story to share. Surely she would draw on such rich material as
she scripts her next book. She is probably doing just that.
While
many within and outside their world are providing social media fodder
about the Bezos breakup, the couple remains mostly silent. Mackenzie the
writer may have a future novel, even a biography to provide a
retrospective on current events. Given his richest man in the world
status, Jeff Bezos has numerous biographies, official and otherwise, but
all require updates on his marital status. In a public commentary, her
own Twitter page, Mackenzie offers some occasional insights into her
current state of mind, like:
“Hoping to find a true partner this time around.” Mackenzie Bezos (So reads her Twitter bio introduction) Mackenzie Bezos (@_MackenzieBezos) | Twitter
As of January 2019, Mackenzie Bezos (the TWITTER
edition) has over 4,100 Twitter followers and has given that flock
plenty to read with almost 70 thousand tweets since 2015. Keep in mind
that this is an unverified account, so the source is in question.
Scrolling through the @_MackenzieBezos Twitter
feed, the reader may catch the way her mind is working; how she is
processing developments in her life with typographical ruminating,
tweets, and retweets on what she observes, what she reads and sees from
the perspective of her uncommon life amid a common development she would
have never expected the entire world to know.
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Melancholy of my own, compounded of many samples extracted from many objects the sundry contemplation of my travels rumination wraps me in humorous sadness ~ William Shakespeare (paraphrased)
Mackenzie Bezos (Mac) is the published author in the family, not Jeff. And now that she and Jeff have split, some followers may wonder if she will one day write an autobiography or a memoir about her life the last 25 years. Within the few weeks following the early January 2019 announcement of their pending divorce, Mac remains silent about her writing plans so her family and friends may not know a thing about her feelings without checking her social media entries. But it is still uncertain that her own feelings, opinions are on her TWITTER FEED, an unverified account.
“Jeff’s decision to leave his job and build an Internet bookstore at the time, he was thinking about what to do next; he had recently read the novel, “Remains of the Day,” by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a butler who wistfully recalls his personal and professional choices during a career in service in wartime Great Britain.”
Mackenzie then followed with numerous arguments in critique of the Brad Stone work. Here are six of her opinions summarized:
“Jeff’s decision to leave his job and build an Internet bookstore at the time, he was thinking about what to do next; he had recently read the novel, “Remains of the Day,” by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a butler who wistfully recalls his personal and professional choices during a career in service in wartime Great Britain.”
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MacKenzie S. Bezos is an American novelist. Bezos founded the anti-bullying organization, Bystander Revolution in 2014, where she serves as executive director. She is pending with a divorce from Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.
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While Wall Street took the Bezos split announcement in stride; investors watch to see if the divorce settlement affects Bezos’s control of Amazon. So long as the company is growing and returning profits, Jeff Bozos probably maintains investor confidence, though a settlement might put a dent in such RELENTLESS.COM side projects in the space exploration company Blue Origin | blueorigin.com. Maybe not.
As of January 2019, the creator and genius of RELENTLESS.COMhas a mission in space that launched years ago in his youth. You might observe that it is his second mistress. Bezos reports that the annual budget for Blue Origin | blueorigin.com is in excess of $1B, only about 1/70 of the expected fortune he may relinquish to Mackenzie.
In numerous interviews of record (both social media and mainstream) Jeff Bezos has framed his passion for space exploration. He may have his highest regard for this mission, maybe ranking this higher than any other love in his life: ex-wife, current mistress, even his varied other RELENTLESS.COMpursuits, of which there are many.
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The divorce could have implications for the ownership structure of Amazon, where Mr. Bezos is the largest shareholder with a 16.3% stake, according to the company’s latest proxy filed in April 2018.
If you own only 8% of a trillion dollar company, do you fall out of the elite class?
Bezos, 54, is worth an estimated $136 billion and is the world’s richest person, according to Forbes. His home state of Washington is one of the few remaining so-called “community property” states — where marital assets shared equally — so his divorce settlement with his soon-to-be-ex, 48, promises to be one of the largest in history.
Nobel Prize for literature winner, Princeton professor emeritus, and mentor for Mackenzie Tuttle Bezos (Mac), TONI MORRISON, also had marital infidelity in her life, circa 1964.
While teaching at Howard, she met Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect, whom she married in 1958. She was pregnant with their second son when she and Harold divorced in 1964.
With that event in common, we might assume that Mac has even a stronger bond now with Toni Morrison, prompting the oft-quoted line: “Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you?”
Mac Bezos, born MacKenzie Tuttle, studied under Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison while at Princeton. Morrison, who was Bezos’s thesis advisor and connected Bezos to her ICM agent Amanda Urban, told Vogue that Bezos was “one of the best students I’ve ever had in my creative-writing classes . . . really one of the best.”
In a review of Traps, Publishers Weekly wrote, “In her second novel she galvanizes the mundane with a sense of dread, presenting four women trapped by sad circumstances and their own fallibility, as they gradually make their way through four tense days during which their lives intersect.”
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Reclusive movie star Jessica Lessing is finally coming out of hiding—to confront her father, a con man who has been selling her out to the paparazzi for years. On her four-day road trip to Las Vegas, she encounters three unexpected allies—Vivian, a teenager with newborn twins; Lynn, a dog shelter owner living in isolation on a ranch in rural Nevada; and Dana, a fearless ex-military bodyguard wrestling with secrets of her own. As their fates collide, each woman will find a chance at redemption that she never would have thought possible. MacKenzie Bezos’s taut prose, tough characters, and nuanced insights give this novel a complexity that few thrillers can match. READ
One major difference is the nature of couples’ assets. Often, affluent people hold their wealth in stocks, and in recent decades many of them build net worth with highly lucrative stock options in rapidly growing companies. “That makes the divorces incredibly more complicated than, say, two schoolteachers who get divorced, with retirement accounts and savings accounts and cars and houses,” says Steve Mindel, a family law attorney in Los Angeles who works with high-net-worth clients.
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… reveals that the great majority of the dissolutions of the marriage by the wealthy are worked out amicably before the divorce announcement. If the divorce is public, attorneys set terms before the filing, which is not unusual in a high net worth case.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie to divorce after 25 years of marriage
BEZOS TWEET ▶ “We want to make people aware of a development in our lives,” the couple said in a post on Bezos’ Twitter account Wednesday. “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 carefully worded announcement suggests a cordial divorce and one unlikely to disrupt or affect Amazon the world’s most valuable company at $810 billion just ahead of Microsoft ($789 billion), according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Reportedly, the Bezos net worth in Amazon is around $140B and rising.
Observers of this case will speculate the assets that Bezos will liquidate to satisfy the divorce agreement. Will he evenly spit his 16% share in Amazon or divest other assets like the Washington Post?All of the following stories and links are archived from the TWITTER FEED OF Mackenzie Bezos @_MackenzieBezos, but we can’t tell if the content reflects her current state of mind…
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Now that the world ruminates about PrimeInfidelity.com, the most expensive divorce in history,
… at least the story about the richest man in the world getting divorced, many ask how much his wife will get.
When, if ever, will anyone understand gender neutral? Jeff Bezos knows.
Well, from the beginning, half of Bezos’ fortune has been always due to his spouse, as stipulated in Washington state laws. So, first, he is not the richest man in the world, but he is divorcing the richest woman in the world. Plus, she is not getting anything, she will just keep her wealth already earned in spades!
The subscript reads, “Jeff Bezos is at the centre of an honest-to-God melodrama, full of salacious revelations, family betrayals and international intrigue.” ~ reported by TheIndianExpress as archived for ‘PRIME INFIDELITY’ ▶ primeinfidelity.com
TRIVIA: As of 2019, the most expensive U.S. divorce is reported to be Steve and Elaine Wynn in 2010, which was $1 billion (est.). Oil tycoon Harold Hamm famously wrote a check for $974.8 million in 2015 for his divorce. Clearly, Jeff Bezos will eclipse all records in this infamous category.
By far and away, the typical divorcing couple (like the account of our story in the lower case) is usually trying to get a fair distribution of minimal home equity and modest personal assets, usually less than $100K total value.
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