The richest man on the globe, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, never had that much money. His net worth has increased to $ 172.3 billion ($ 153 billion), a new record. This is evident from the “Billionaires Index” of the Bloomberg news agency.
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The previous record was set in September 2018, when the same Bezos had an estimated net worth of $ 167.7 billion. But then came the divorce of his then wife MacKenzie. They agreed to a $ 38 billion settlement last year, with Bezos giving her a quarter of his shares in Amazon.
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But financially, Bezos has now recovered from that loss. This year, his net worth grew by more than $ 57 billion, Bloomberg said.
Bezos owes most of his assets to his e-commerce company Amazon. He owns approximately 57 million shares, or 12 percent of the company, according to the American channel CNN. And the share already shot up half this year.
His ex MacKenzie is worth $ 57.2 billion, which puts her in 13th place in the most recent update “Billionaires Index”.
The second richest man in the world is currently Microsoft founder Bill Gates, with $ 114.1 billion in assets. Number three is French businessman Bernard Arnault, the man behind the French luxury goods group LVMH ($ 90.9 billion).
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