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LL
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posted 05 April 2019 06:40 PMHide Post
After all those years of marriage and the business grown...why didn't she get 50 %


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posted 05 April 2019 06:43 PMHide Post
This was obviously a negotiation, not a court fight. Heck, I've known 25 year olds whose divorces took longer.


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posted 28 May 2019 03:49 PMHide Post
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MacKenzie Bezos, the former wife of Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, pledged on Tuesday to give half of her $36 billion fortune to charity, following a movement founded by billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates.

Bezos, whose former husband is the world’s richest man, was one of 19 people on Tuesday to join the “Giving Pledge,” a campaign announced in 2010 by Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s Buffett and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates. It calls for the super-rich to give away more than half their fortunes during their lifetimes or in their wills.

“In addition to whatever assets life has nurtured in me, I have a disproportionate amount of money to share,” MacKenzie Bezos said in a statement dated Saturday. “My approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful. It will take time and effort and care.”


https://www.reuters.com/articl...ivorce-idUSKCN1SY1E9


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posted 28 May 2019 06:09 PMHide Post
Good for her.


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posted 28 May 2019 11:28 PMHide Post
50% sniffs of a decision made with a shrug, which is odd for a decision having to do with billions of dollars. I would be curious to know why 50% is better than 45%, and better than 55%?
 
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posted 29 May 2019 05:07 AMHide Post
Fifty percent is the minimum standard of the ‘Giving Pledge’.

I could imagine committing to 50 while thinking it will likely be higher than that once I’ve worked through a philanthropic plan.


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posted 31 May 2019 12:33 AMHide Post
Good for her, indeed, and not just in how she handled the $ but the mistress.

Nothing compares in value to her children's mental health and whatever she can do to safeguard it. That's ESPECIALLY considering the point increasingly made lately, about the importance of recognizing the meaning of "enough" when it comes to wealth.

Remembering as a single example, the "poor" (metaphorically) grandson of Getty who lost his ear and sanity when his megabucks grandfather refused to pay ransom when he was kidnapped.


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