New filings show that the Amazon founder and CEO unloaded slightly more than 900,000 shares. The documents also indicate that the richest man on Earth has transferred 25% of his Amazon stake to his ex-wife as a part of their divorce settlement.
On Wednesday evening, hours after the stock markets had closed, Amazon founder and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission that showed he had sold $1.8 billion worth of Amazon shares over the final three days of July. After taxes, he will net about $1.4 billion.
Bezos sold slightly more than 900,000 shares of Amazon between July 29 and July 31, when the e-commerce behemoth’s stock price was around $1,900 a share. He still retains his title of world’s richest person, now with a net worth thatcalculates at $116 billion, using Wednesday’s closing share price for Amazon. Of that, about $108 billion comes from the shares of Amazon he owns.
The new filings also show that Bezos has given his ex-wife, MacKenzie, 25% of his Amazon stake, or 19.7 million shares. Jeff Bezos will continue to exercise voting control over the shares of Amazon he transferred to his wife, according to an SEC filing in April. Her Amazon shares are worth nearly $36.8 billion, making her the third-richest woman in the world, behind only L’Oréal heiress
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