Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos finalised their divorce Friday to the tune of a $38-billion settlement, in world’s biggest divorce deal, Bloomberg News reported.
Under the agreement, MacKenzie Bezos, 49, will receive approximately 19.7 million Amazon.com shares, giving her a four percent stake in the company valued at $38.3 billion, and landing her at 22nd on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the news service said.
A judge in Washington state’s King County finalised the divorce. Jeff Bezos, 55, will retain a 12 percent stake and remain the world’s richest man.
MacKenzie Bezos, a novelist, has said she would give all of her stake in The Washington Post and the space exploration firm Blue Origin to her husband as well as voting control of her remaining Amazon stock.
She has also promised to donate half her fortune to charity, joining the ranks of the world’s ultra-wealthy philanthropists as a signatory of the Giving Pledge.
The personal life of Jeff Bezos was thrust into the spotlight with the announcement in January that he and his wife were divorcing after 25 years of marriage and the revelation by the National Enquirer that he had been having an affair with a former news anchor, Lauren Sanchez.
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos married in 1993 and have four children. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in their Seattle garage in 1994 and turned it into a colossus that dominates online retail.
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World's richest man, Jeff Bezos signs off $38bn for ex-wife in biggest divorce deal
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I am trying to right some wrongs-Kevin Hunter addresses Wendy Williams divorce
Wendy Williams estranged hubby, Kevin Hunter has finally opened up about his divorce from Wendy Williams.
“28 years ago I met an amazing woman: Wendy Williams. At the time, I didn’t realize that she would not only become my wife, but would also change the face of entertainment and the world,” Hunter said in a statement.
“I have dedicated most of our lives to the business empire that is Wendy Williams Hunter, a person that I truly love and respect unconditionally. I am not proud of my recent actions and take full accountability and apologize to my wife, my family and her amazing fans.
“I am going through a time of self-reflection and am trying to right some wrongs. No matter what the outcome is or what the future holds, we are still The Hunter Family and I will continue to work with and fully support my wife in this business and through any and all obstacles she may face living her new life of sobriety, while I also work on mine. I ask that you please give me and my family privacy as we heal. Thank you.”
TheNewsGuru, TNG recalls that Williams filed for divorce from Hunter last Thursday after nearly 22 years of marriage. They share one son together, 18-year-old Kevin Hunter Jr.
The split came after Hunter’s alleged mistress, Sharina Hudson, gave birth to a baby that’s said to be Hunter’s. Williams addressed the divorce during Monday’s episode of “The Wendy Williams Show.”
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TV star Wendy William files for divorce after 22years of marriage
Media personality, Wendy William has filed for divorce from her husband Kelvin Hunter after 22 years of marriage over “irreconcilable differences.
The media personality served him the papers at the studio they both run together as host and manager under tight security just in case the situation got out of control which didn’t actually happen, says TMZ news platform.
The divorce document states a “breakdown” of the marriage over a period of at least 6 months, requesting the court to determine an “appropriate amount” of child support to their over 18 years-old son, Kelvin.
The TV show star has been struggling to keep up with her marriage to Hunter which has been embroiled with infidelity accusations.
There have been reports of Hunter’s relationship with his mistress, Sharina Hudson and there have been the rumors of the two of them welcoming a child together.
Hunter and Hudson have been alleged to be in a relationship for over 10 years.
This relationship has affected Williams’s health to a large extent.
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World’s richest man agrees to $35 billion divorce deal
World’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, who is the founder of online retail giant, Amazon has agreed to a $35.6 billion divorce deal with his wife, MacKenzie.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Jeff, 55, and MacKenzie, 48, a novelist, who married in 1993 with four children, have been embroiled in a divorce battle.
With the divorce deal agreed, MacKenzie will be keeping a 4% stake worth $35.6bn in the online retail giant that Jeff founded in Seattle in 1994, a year after the couple married, and MacKenzie was one of its first employees.
The Amazon founder had held a 16.3% stake in the company prior to the divorce deal, but would now only be retaining 75% of that stake.
However, MacKenzie transferred all of her voting rights to her former husband, and she has also given up her interests in the Washington Post newspaper and Jeff’ space travel firm, Blue Origin.
MacKenzie seems to be satisfied with the deal as she took to Twitter to tweet for the first time saying, “Grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff with support from each other and everyone who reached out to us in kindness, and looking forward to next phase as co-parents and friends.
“Happy to be giving him all of my interest in Washington Post and Blue Origin, and 75% of our Amazon stock plus voting control of my shares to support his continued contributions with the teams of these incredible comsanies.
“Excited about my own plans. Grateful for the past as I look forward to what comes next”.
— MacKenzie Scott (@mackenziescott) April 4, 2019
Jeff also took to Twitter to express gratitude to friends and family for their encouragement and love while the divorce process lasted.
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) April 4, 2019
“I’m so grateful to all my friends and family for reaching out with encouragement and love. It means more than you know.
“MacKenzie most of all. I’m grateful for her support and for her kindness in this process and am very much looking forward to our new relationship as friends and co-parents.
“In all our work together, MacKenzie’s abilities have been on full display. She has been an extraordinary partner, ally, and mother.
“She is resourceful and brilliant and loving, and as our futures unroll, I know I’ll always be learning from her,” he said.
Jeff and MacKenzie did not provide any further financial details about the divorce deal.
According to Forbes, the Amazon shares alone will make MacKenzie the world’s third-richest woman while Jeff will remain the world’s richest person.
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Presidential poll: Man divorces wife for supporting Buhari, refusing to vote Atiku
A man, Abdullahi Yada’u, has divorced his wife after failing to convince her to vote for candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar against President Muhammadu Buhari in next month’s presidential election.
Yada’u, a resident of Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State, told BBC Hausa Service on Thursday that he divorced his wife, Hafsat Suleiman, because she insisted on voting for Buhari.
The president is seeking re-election on the platform of his party, APC.
Yada’u stated that previously, both of them supported Buhari in the 2015 elections. But this time, he felt disappointed with the administration and decided not to vote for him again, he said.
“I told her that she must not vote for him but she insisted which led to a quarrel which attracted the attention of our neighbours, I slapped her and told her to choose between voting for Buhari and staying with me. She ran away.
“Later her parents called me and I narrated to them what transpired between us. But still my wife insisted on voting for Mr Buhari, that’s how I divorced her in the presence of her parents.”
Ibrahim Suleiman, the wife’s elder brother, said they felt very sad over what transpired between the couple. We decided to deal with him but our father stopped us from joining issues with him, he told the BBC.
“He really disgraced us. They have been having issues even in the previous election. She is the one that convinced him to vote for Buhari, now he insisted on voting for Mr Atiku Abubakar. We decided that we will not allow her to go back to him again,” he said.
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I dreamt my wife died after a fight, kindly separate us before it’s fulfilled – Husband
A 50-year-old machine operator, Franklin Temitayo, has approached an Agege Customary Court in Lagos State seeking the dissolution of what he calls “14-year loveless marriage.”
Franklin, who hails from Ondo town in Ondo State, told the court on Wednesday that there was no more love between him and his wife, Titilayo, whom he described as “an arrogant and insatiable woman.”
The father of three said: “My wife is disrespectful and troublesome; she no longer loves and cares for me as her husband.’’
He told the court that his wife had made his home a living hell for him, alleging that she never gave him peace whenever he returned from work.
“Despite all my efforts to provide and care for the home, she is never appreciative and considerate, as she keeps demanding for more.
“Whenever I give my wife feeding allowance, she diverts the money to her personal use and demands for more money.
“There was a time she held onto my shirt and stopped me from going to work, demanding money from me.
“I try my best to cater for my family to the best of my ability, but my wife is never satisfied, all she cares about is money,” he said.
The petitioner told the court that he was no longer interested in a union with “an abusive, troublesome and rude woman.”
“I moved out of the house out of frustration; I could no longer bear her excesses.
“There was a time I had a dream that we fought and she died in the process.
“I want the court to, therefore, separate us; as I do not want a murder case to hang on my neck. I just want to live comfortably and in peace,” he said.
Titilayo, who hails from Abeokuta, Ogun State, but lives at Iloro area of Agege in Lagos State, however, denied all the allegations levelled against her.
She called her husband “a liar and an irresponsible man.”
“Whenever he was paid salary; he would avoid coming home for days. After I had reported him at his work place, he got angry and stopped working.
“My husband is irresponsible and not caring; he neither gives us feeding allowance nor knows how I pay the children’s school fees.
“My husband abandoned the children and I for four years without looking back, until this year when my mother died.
“He came to visit the children and on that pretext, he took them away.
“He would flare up whenever I asked for money; and over time, this became worrisome and annoying as the burden of feeding the house, paying house rent and school fees became unbearable for me,” she said.
The 34-year-old saleswoman, however, told the court that she would not want her marriage dissolved because of the children.
“I do not want to end the marriage because of the love I have for my children. I do not want them to grow up in separated home,” she said.
She, therefore, urged the court to help her resolve the issues between her and her husband.
The court’s president, Mrs. Patricia Adeyanju, advised the estranged couple to keep the peace and adjourned the case until January 21 for an alternative dispute resolution.
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Court dissolves 18-year-old marriage over abandonment
An Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi, in Ibadan, on Friday dissolved the 18-year-old marriage between one Fatimo Taiwo, 35, and her husband, Lukman, on ground of abandonment.
The President of the court, Chief Mukaila Balogun, said the court was left with no option than to dissolve the marriage since the defendant had urged the court to uphold the divorce request of his wife.
Balogun said that failure of the husband to defend the allegations brought before the court further proved that he had made up his mind to end the union.
He, therefore, dissolved the marriage and gave custody of the only child of the union to the plaintiff.
The president ordered the defendant to pay N4,000 monthly allowance for the upkeep of the child.
Fatimo had prayed the court to order her husband to be responsible for the upkeep of the only child of the union.
In her testimony before the court on Friday, the plaintiff alleged that her husband was insensitive to her welfare.
“He preferred spending his money on other women so, I urge the court to separate us and direct him to perform his role as a father of the only child between us,” the plaintiff pleaded.
Responding, Lukman, 39, said he would not say anything regarding the allegations leveled against him, but urged the court to uphold the request of his wife.
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Wife seeks divorce over husband’s inability to pay up N100k debt
A woman on Friday urged a Sharia Court in Minna to dissolved her seven-year-old marriage over husband’s indebtedness to her.
The reports that Fatima had approached the court seeking the dissolution of her marriage to Ibrahim Mohammed over unsettled debt of N100, 000.
She said her husband borrowed the money immediately they got married and had since not paid.
She also accused her husband of not performing his duty of feeding her, the children and taking care of other needs.
Mohammed denied the allegations, but said he too was no longer interested in the marriage.
He, however, did not object to the wife’s request for a divorce.
He accused his wife of not taking good care of his children as well as starving him of sex.
In his ruling, the judge, Mr Ahmed Bima, adjourned the case until June 8 for the dissolution of the marriage and to look into the counter-claims of the husband.
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I’ve been falling sick since my husband stop making love with me
The five-year-old marriage between a 35-year-old trader, Bilikisu Azeez and her husband, Olusesi, was on Friday dissolved by an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on grounds of sex-starvation.
Bilikisu had told the court that her husband, Olusesi, starved her of sex for more than two years, a development which, she said, had affected her health.
“My husband has been starving me of sex since he married his youngest wife; he has turned me to an abandoned property.
“I have been falling sick in and out of hospital, during my last visit to the hospital, I was told that it was because I have not had sex for long that is why I experience frequent sickness.”
She also accused her husband of not caring for her and the only child of the marriage, saying “my husband does not take care of me, I feed and clothe myself.
“He refused to enroll our only child, who is over four years old in school and has failed to pay his medical bills; I always run to my mother for the hospital bill.”
Bilikisu, who also accused her husband of battery, said he had beaten her publicly which resulted in her fainting.
According to her, the trouble started when her husband brought in a third wife.
She continued: “There was joy, love and peace in the house until he came with another wife, who has been fighting me also.”
She urged the court to dissolve the union so that she can move on with her life.
Olusesi, in his response to the allegations, accepted that he starved the woman of sex.
“She once denied me of sex and since then I abandoned her.
“Yes, I starved her of sex, it is tit for tat because there was a day I entered her room to sleep with her and she left the bed to sleep on the floor.
“I made an attempt eight times to sleep with her, but she refused. So since that day, I just put her aside after all she is not the only wife I have,” he told the court.
The 45-year-old building contractor also consented to the dissolution of the marriage, saying he too was no longer interested in the marriage.
The court president, Mr Akin Akinniyi, while delivering the judgment said that it appeared that the estranged couple were tired of the marriage as all efforts to reconcile them had failed.
“Since both parties consented to the dissolution of their marriage, this court has no choice than to dissolve the marriage.
“The court hereby pronounces the marriage between Mrs Bilikisu Azeez and Mr Olusesi Azeez dissolved today.
“Both of you henceforth cease to be husband and wife, each of you should go on his or her separate ways unmolested.
“The court wishes both of you well in your future endeavour. Any squabble between both of you from now on shall be treated as criminal.
“Any violation of this judgment will be regarded as contempt of court and will attract imprisonment without option of fine,” Akinniyi ruled.
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Husband gets 5 strokes of cane for divorcing wife
A Sharia Court sitting at Magajin Gari in Kaduna on Monday ordered that one Idris Sai’du be given five strokes of cane for violation of the Islamic Law on divorce.
The judge, Mallam Dahiru Lawal also ordered the man to pay N5,000 to Hauwa Abdullah, his wife for abandoning her and wasting her time for so long.
The judge, who was irked at the respondent’s pronouncement of “I divorce my wife three times,” said it was not in line with Islamic practice.
He therefore ordered the respondent to be given five strokes of cane.
The complainant, Hauwa, had earlier told the court that her husband chased her out of her matrimonial home since last year and had never checked on her ever since.
“He asked me to leave his house since last year Ramadan, saying I should pack all my belongings and leave. It is almost a year now and he had never checked on me,” the complainant said.
Hauwa, who stated that they were not blessed with a child, added that she was in court to seek for divorce as she couldn’t be married to a man that didn’t care for her.
“I want this honourable court to compel my husband to divorce me as he is no longer interested in me,’’ she said.
In his response to the allegations, Sai’du said he ordered Hauwa to return home because “she has been communicating with her ex-husband which I am not comfortable with.
“I therefore divorce my wife three times.”
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