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Jeff Bezos, ex-wife agree $36 billion divorce deal

World’s richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife, MacKenzie, have agreed the biggest divorce settlement in history, leaving him with 75 percent of their stock in the tech giant and giving her nearly $36 billion in shares.

MacKenzie Bezos said she would give all of her stake in The Washington Post and the space exploration firm Blue Origin to her ex-husband β€” the world’s richest man β€” as well as voting control of her remaining Amazon stock.

Jeff Bezos, 55, and MacKenzie, 48, a novelist, married in 1993 and have four children. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in their