As the former wife of the richest man in the world Jeff Bezos Mackenzie, increased to 62.3 billion dollars. This was reported by Forbes magazine.
So, Bezos, who after the divorce was 4% of the shares founded by a former husband, an Amazon company, has become the richest woman in the United States. Amazon shares over the week from 2 to 9 July, has risen by 10 percent.
in addition, as CEO Jeff Bezos grew by 16.2 billion, up 188,2 billion.
After the divorce, Mackenzie Bezos got a quarter owned by the husband of Amazon shares, which were worth $ 36 billion. Since the background of the growth in the value of shares of the company, the state almost doubled, the newspaper notes.
With first place in the list of the richest women in the USA Bezos shifted the daughter of the founder of Walmart Sam Walton Alice. As the newspaper notes, in the world Bezos inferior to the size of his fortune only granddaughter of the founder of L’oreal Francoise Bettencourt-Meyer, whose fortune is estimated at $ 64 billion.
Earlier it was reported that the billionaires in the USA grew rich during the pandemic 565 billion. The total amount of funds at the disposal of American billionaires, is 3,512 trillion dollars. It is noted that most earned the founders and owners of companies dealing with online trade and services on the Internet. Among the wealthy in the pandemic of billionaires, the head of Amazon Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife Mackenzie Bezos. They earned 36.2 per cent and 12.6 billion dollars, respectively.
