Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of US online retail empire Amazon and the world's richest man, has taken to Twitter to publicly announce his impending divorce.
In a tweet published to his authenticated page on Wednesday, Mr Bezos said that he and his wife MacKenzie will divorce after 25 years of marriage.
According to the statement, the couple decided to divorce after a long period of "loving exploration and trial separation" and expect to continue as partners in joint ventures and projects.
"If we had known we would separate after 25 years together, we would do it all again," the tweeted message said.
The couple married in 1993 after they met at hedge fund DE Shaw in New York, where they both worked.
According to a 2013 profile in Vogue magazine, MacKenzie Bezos, 48, is an author who grew up in San
Francisco.
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