Editing Jeff Bezos (section)

== Personal life ==
{{See also|Family of Jeff Bezos}}
[[File:Jeff Bezos talking.jpg|thumb|upright|Bezos in 2017]]

In 1992, while working for [[D. E. Shaw]] in Manhattan, Bezos met novelist [[MacKenzie Scott|MacKenzie Tuttle]], who was a research associate at the firm; the couple married a year later.<ref name=Bayers>{{cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3|title=The Inner Bezos|last=Bayers|first=Chip|magazine=Wired|access-date=March 7, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320200110/https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/|archive-date=March 20, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/11/05/quoted-she-said-he-said-mackenzie-bezos-vs-author-of-book-on-amazon|title=Quoted: She Said, He Said – MacKenzie Bezos Vs. Author of Book on Amazon|website=SiliconBeat|publisher=The Mercury News|author=Levi Sumagaysay|date=November 5, 2013|quote=I have firsthand knowledge of many of the events. I worked for Jeff (Bezos) at D. E. Shaw|access-date=January 9, 2018|archive-date=April 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402054946/http://www.siliconbeat.com/2013/11/05/quoted-she-said-he-said-mackenzie-bezos-vs-author-of-book-on-amazon/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1994, they moved across the country to [[Seattle|Seattle, Washington]], where Bezos founded Amazon.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bayers|first=Chip|url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/bezos_pr.html|title=The Inner Bezos|magazine=Wired|volume=7|issue=3|access-date=August 23, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831214002/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.03/bezos_pr.html|archive-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref> Bezos and his now ex-wife MacKenzie are the parents of four children: three sons, and a daughter adopted from China.<ref name=Whoriskey /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/us/jeff-bezos-fast-facts|title=Jeff Bezos Fast Facts|publisher=CNN|date=March 24, 2016|access-date=August 3, 2014|archive-date=August 10, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810152735/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/us/jeff-bezos-fast-facts/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In March 2003, Bezos was a passenger in a helicopter that crashed in [[West Texas]] while surveying land to buy for Blue Origin; the other three occupants in the helicopter were pilot Charles "Cheater" Bella, Amazon lawyer Elizabeth Korrell, and local rancher Ty Holland.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB104742483556702500|title=Amazon Chief Survives Helicopter Crash in Texas|author=Nick Wingfield|access-date=March 7, 2018|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|archive-date=March 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308103905/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB104742483556702500|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Davenport |first=Christian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1003305591 |title=The Space Barons : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos |publisher=[[PublicAffairs]] |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-61039-829-9 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=1–26 |language=English |oclc=1003305591 |author-link=Christian Davenport}}</ref> All survived; Bezos sustained only minor injuries and was discharged from a local hospital the same day.<ref name="Inside the Mind of Jeff Bezos" />

Bezos portrayed a [[Starfleet]] official in the 2016 movie ''[[Star Trek Beyond]]'', and joined the cast and crew at a [[San Diego Comic-Con]] screening.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 21, 2016 |title=Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reveals Star Trek Beyond alien cameo |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36857001 |publisher=BBC |access-date=February 22, 2017|archive-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223141849/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36857001 |url-status=live }}</ref> He had lobbied [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] for the role apropos of [[Amazon Alexa|Alexa]] and his personal/professional interest in [[speech recognition]]. His one line consisted of a response to an alien in distress: "Speak Normally." In his initial discussion of the project which became Alexa with his technical advisor Greg Hart in 2011, Bezos told him that the goal was to create "the ''Star Trek'' computer."<ref>Vlahos, James (2019). ''Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Think'', p. 40, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. {{ISBN|978-1328799302}}.</ref> Bezos's family corporation Zefram LLC is named after [[Zefram Cochrane]], a character from ''[[Star Trek]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Timberg|first1=Craig|last2=Whoriskey|first2=Peter|last3=Davenport|first3=Christian|last4=Dwoskin|first4=Elizabeth|title=Jeff Bezos, long known for guarding his privacy, faces his most public and personal crisis|language=en-US|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/jeff-bezos-long-known-for-guarding-his-privacy-faces-his-most-public-and-personal-crisis/2019/02/08/8e130a82-2bd4-11e9-97b3-ae59fbae7960_story.html|access-date=October 21, 2020|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024054738/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/jeff-bezos-long-known-for-guarding-his-privacy-faces-his-most-public-and-personal-crisis/2019/02/08/8e130a82-2bd4-11e9-97b3-ae59fbae7960_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2019, Bezos and his wife MacKenzie released a joint statement which revealed that they would be getting divorced after 25 years together.<ref name="Snider2019">{{Citation |title=Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie to divorce after 25 years of marriage |first=Mike |last=Snider |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |date=January 9, 2019 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2019/01/09/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-wife-mackenzie-divorce-after-25-years/2523544002/ |access-date=January 9, 2019 |archive-date=January 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109190914/https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2019/01/09/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-wife-mackenzie-divorce-after-25-years/2523544002/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=July 21, 2016|title=Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are getting divorced after 25 years of marriage|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/09/tech/jeff-bezos-wife-divorce/index.html|publisher=CNN|access-date=January 9, 2019|archive-date=January 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109154741/https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/09/tech/jeff-bezos-wife-divorce/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Subsequently, ''[[National Enquirer]]'' revealed that Bezos had an affair with media personality [[Lauren Sánchez]]; the affair with Sánchez had lasted for months.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dean |first=Sam |date=February 8, 2019 |title=What Jeff Bezos' intimate-message breach teaches us about digital security |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-jeff-bezos-photos-security-20190208-story.html |access-date=November 29, 2022 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129201143/https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-jeff-bezos-photos-security-20190208-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hartmans |first=Avery |title=Jeff Bezos' girlfriend Lauren Sanchez greeted him when he returned from his spaceflight. Here's everything that's happened since their relationship began, including a tabloid scandal and possibly even a hack by foreign operatives. |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-relationship-timeline-photos-2020-1 |access-date=November 29, 2022 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US |archive-date=January 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200109223010/https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-relationship-timeline-photos-2020-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Later, Bezos published an online essay on February 7, 2019, in which he accused [[American Media, Inc.]] owner [[David Pecker]] of "extortion and blackmail" for threatening to publish intimate photos of Bezos and current girlfriend Lauren Sánchez<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Stone |first1=Brad |date=February 2, 2021 |title=Jeff Bezos Walks Through a One-Way Door, Opening a New Age for Amazon |work=[[Bloomberg Media]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/jeff-bezos-steps-down-heralding-new-era-for-amazon |url-status=live |access-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210203060543/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-03/jeff-bezos-steps-down-heralding-new-era-for-amazon |archive-date=February 3, 2021}}</ref> if he did not stop his investigation into how his text messages and other photos had been leaked to the ''National Enquirer''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Weise |first=Karen |date=February 7, 2019 |title=Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of 'Extortion and Blackmail' |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-blackmail.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207235007/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/technology/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-blackmail.html |archive-date=February 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Bezos |first=Jeff |date=February 7, 2019 |title=No thank you, Mr. Pecker |url=https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207230040/https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f |archive-date=February 7, 2019 |access-date=February 7, 2019 |publisher=Medium.com}}</ref> Media reports have accused Sánchez's brother Michael of being the source for the photos obtained by ''National Enquirer''; however, Bezos has speculated that it may have been the Saudi Arabian government.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sapra |first=Paige Leskin, Bani |title=Jeff Bezos' nudes were reportedly leaked when his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez sent them to her brother, in a new twist to the dramatic saga — here's everything we know so far |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-investigation-timeline-2019-2 |access-date=November 29, 2022 |website=Business Insider |language=en-US |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129201143/https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-national-enquirer-investigation-timeline-2019-2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On April 4, 2019, the divorce was finalized, with Bezos keeping 75% of the couple's Amazon stock and MacKenzie getting the remaining 25% ($35.6&nbsp;billion). However, Bezos would keep all of the couple's voting rights.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/mackenzie-bezos-to-keep-25-percent-of-couples-amazon-stock-after-finalizing-divorce.html|title=Jeff Bezos to keep 75 percent of couple's Amazon stock after finalizing divorce|access-date=March 4, 2019|archive-date=April 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404173118/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/04/mackenzie-bezos-to-keep-25-percent-of-couples-amazon-stock-after-finalizing-divorce.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On May 22, 2023, Sánchez and Bezos became engaged.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/22/entertainment/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-engaged/index.html|title=Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are engaged|date=May 22, 2023|website=CNN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523052846/https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/22/entertainment/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-engaged/index.html|archive-date=May 23, 2023|url-status=live|access-date=May 22, 2023|first1=Chloe|last1=Melas|first2=Alli|last2=Rosenbloom}}</ref> 

Bezos is the Honorary Chair of the [[The Explorers Club|Explorers Club]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Club Officials {{!}} The Explorers Club |language=en-US |work=The Explorers Club |url=https://www.explorers.org/about/club-officials/ |access-date=March 26, 2023 |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402045100/https://www.explorers.org/about/club-officials/ |url-status=live }}</ref>