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![Jeff Bezos Awarded With Axel Springer Award In Berlin](https://img.money.com/2019/01/gettyimages-950750908-1.jpg)
*Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie Bezos*

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, [the world’s richest person](https://money.com/richest-people-in-the-world/), and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing after 25 years.

“After a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends,” according to a tweet Wednesday that both of them signed.

The couple met when they worked at hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and married in 1993. He founded Amazon a year later. Bezos, 54, is worth $137 billion, according to the [Bloomberg Billionaires Index](https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/), a ranking of the world’s 500 wealthiest individuals.

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A divorce could reshape the wealth rankings. If the couple split their fortune equally, it could leave MacKenzie, 48, with $69 billion, making her the world’s richest woman. It could also make Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates the planet’s richest person once again.

The state of Washington -- where Amazon is based and the couple have a home -- is a community property state, which means all property and debt acquired during a marriage “will be divided equitably by the court if the couple cannot negotiate an agreement,” according to the website of McKinley Irvin, a family law firm in the region.

*This story originally appeared on [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-09/jeff-and-mackenzie-bezos-are-getting-a-divorce-after-25-years).*

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