Jeff Bezos still the richest man on earth, ahead of Bill Gates despite whooping $35 billion divorce

Even while the multi-billion divorce between Amazon’s founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos would make the latter the third richest woman in the world, it certainly will not dismiss Jeff Bezos from the top spot as the world’s richest man.

MacKenzie in a tweet on Thursday said that she will give all her “interests in the Washington Post and Blue Origin, and 75% of our Amazon stock plus voting control of my shares.”

Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday that around 4 per cent of Amazon’s stock will be transferred to MacKenzie. This translates into over $35 billion. However, Jeff Bezos will continue to be the richest man in the world with a net worth of more than $110 billion, ahead of around $99.5 billion fortune of Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates, Forbes reported. Jeff’s net worth, as per Forbes, is $151 billion currently.