Jeff Bezos’ 2019 is off to a bad start. Just hours after the Amazon CEO announced his divorce from his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie Bezos, news of his affair with Lauren Sánchez came to light.
Scroll down to find out everything we know so far about Jeff’s headline-making scandal.
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Jeff Bezos’ 2019 is off to a bad start. Just hours after the Amazon CEO announced his divorce from his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie Bezos, news of his affair with Lauren Sánchez came to light. Scroll down to find out everything we know so far about Jeff’s headline-making scandal.
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Jeff and MacKenzie, who share four children, released a joint statement on his Twitter account on January 9, 2019, to announce their plans to divorce: “We want to make people aware of a development in our lives. As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends. We feel incredibly lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for every one of the years we have been married to each other. If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again. We’ve had such a great life together as a married couple, and we also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursuing ventures and adventures. Though the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.”
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The National Enquirer reported hours after the divorce news that the businessman had been seeing his friend Patrick Whitesell’s wife, Sánchez, for eight months. According to the magazine, Jeff and the former Extra host were spotted together across five states at various hotels, restaurants and private estates. The report said MacKenzie and talent agent Whitesell were made aware of their spouses’ affair in the fall.
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Jeff was spotted wearing his gold wedding band while attending Amazon’s Golden Globes afterparty with Sánchez at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on January 6, 2019.
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Multiple outlets reported that Jeff and MacKenzie did not have a prenuptial agreement, meaning she may be entitled to half of his estimated $144 billion net worth. The estranged couple live in Washington, which is a community property state where all assets and debts accrued during a marriage are considered equally owned by both spouses unless there is a prenup in place. They also have properties in Beverly Hills, New York and Washington, D.C.
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The Enquirer obtained several text messages that Jeff sent Emmy winner Sánchez in the spring of 2018. In one message, the entrepreneur reportedly wrote, “I want to breathe you in. I want to hold you tight…. I want to kiss your lips…. I love you. I am in love with you.”
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Us confirmed on January 11, 2019, that Sánchez and Whitesell hired celebrity lawyer Laura Wasser to mediate their divorce. A source also told Us that the former So You Think You Can Dance host and Jeff are “serious about each other.”
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The National Enquirer reported on several more of the businessman's text exchanges with Sánchez from September 11, 2018, in which he continued to profess his feelings. "Lauren, I'm in love with you. Deep. I know it sounds strange, but even little things like you suggesting I ask for extra training from Bell make my love for you expand and grow," he wrote.
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A photo obtained by the New York Post's Page Six showed photos of the twosome having a dinner in public at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle near Bezos' home in Medina, Washington, in April 2018, eight months before news of their affair broke.
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