All because of a divorce: Jeff Bezos has lost the status of the richest man on the planet

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is no longer the richest man in the world. He sank to second place, and the championship was taken by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Writes about this New York Post.

Photo: twitter / Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos

Amazon founder, who also owns the Washington Post, dropped to second place after the e-commerce giant's stock price fell by 7%.

Now that his accumulated fortune is $ 103,9 billion, Bezos has given the palm to Bill Gates, whose capital is $ 105,7 billion.

The 55-year-old Bezos became the richest man on Earth in 2018, then - the first billionaire, whose fortune exceeded $ 100 billion (at that time, the capital of Bezos was $ 160 billion).

He first entered the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans in 1998, a year after Amazon made $ 1,6 billion.

But the fall in Bezos’s net worth is not only due to Amazon shares. He would still have come first if he and Mackenzie Bezos had not divorced.

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In January of 2019, the couple announced their divorce, and 49-year-old Mackenzie received a quarter of Amazon shares. Now with a net worth of $ 32,7 billion, she is among the 20 of the richest people in the world.

Bezos broke up with Mackenzie after a photo scandal in which awkward selfies leaked for his mistress Lauren Sanchez leaked.

Gates, who made his debut on Forbes’s first ever billionaire list in 1987, stepped down as chairman of Microsoft at 2014, although he remains a board member.

He is currently co-chairing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos announced they are getting divorced after 25 years of marriage in January 2019 of the year. They have four children together. In April, the couple announced that they had “completed the divorce process”.
• Later it became known that the founder of Amazon occurs With news presenter Loren Sanchez.
• American tabloid National Enquirer paid Michael Sanchez, brother of billionaire mistress Jeff Bezos, $ 200 thousand for the transmission of intimate correspondence his sisters with a businessman.

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