Article Highlights:

• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and novelist wife MacKenzie reveal they are divorcing after a 'period of loving exploration' - but no word on how his $140 BILLION fortune will be split
• Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and novelist MacKenzie Bezos are getting a divorce
• The couple announced the breakup over Jeff's Twitter account on Wednesday
• The couple did not mention how Jeff Bezos' $140 Billion fortune will be split
• Much of that dollar amount comes from his 16 percent ownership stake in Amazon, which hit $1 trillion in September and is now valued at $777.8 billion
• Together, the Bezos are said to own more property than anyone in the US
• They live in Washington, which is a community property state, and that means all assets acquired during the marriage are split 50/50 unless there's a pre-nup
• The two met in NYC when Jeff interviewed MacKenzie for a research associate position at the investment management firm of DE Shaw, where he was a VP
• They got engaged within three months of their first date and married in 1993

• The two share four children, including three sons and an adopted daughter

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and novelist wife MacKenzie reveal they are divorcing after a 'period of loving exploration'
By STEPHANIE HANEY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 9 January 2019

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Jeff came up from virtually nothing to become the self-made billionaire, one hundred times over, that he is today.

He was born to a 16-year-old mother, Jacklyn Gise, and deadbeat dad, Ted Jorgensen, in Texas on January 12, 1964, as Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen.

When Jeff was 17 months old, his mom divorced Jorgensen, who belonged to a unicycle troupe and was making $1.25 per hour at a retail store, according to CNBC.

About three years later, Gise remarried Miguel Bezos in 1968.

Miguel had arrived in Miami in 1962 from Cuba, and he only knew one word of English: 'hamburger.'

When Jeff was four, Jorgensen agreed to allow Miguel to adopt his son, and that's how Jeff became became Jeffrey Preston Bezos.