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These tech billionaires have divorced, how to divide the property?

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Extremely eye news reporter Zhang Yang

On June 18, a number of foreign media reported that Brin, co-founder of Google and the world's seventh-richest man, applied for divorce. According to the latest Forbes data, Brin has more than $90 billion in assets, and how to divide the property of both husband and wife in this divorce lawsuit is also a focus of attention from all walks of life.

In fact, in recent years, the marriage of many technology tycoons has had problems, such as Tesla CEO Musk, Amazon founder Bezos, Microsoft founder Gates and others, have divorced.

Brin divorced twice and had a child with his current wife

According to the Daily Mail, this time it was Brin who took the initiative to file for divorce. He and his wife, Nicole Shanahan, have been married for more than 3 years and the two have a 3-year-old child. Nicole is half Chinese and her mother is a Chinese immigrant.

Court documents show that Brin filed an application with the court in January to dissolve his marriage to his current wife on the grounds of "irreconcilable disagreements." In addition, they asked the court to seal documents and keep details of the breakup confidential because "because of the attention of their relationship, both their divorce case and potential child custody issues could involve significant public interest." ”

These tech billionaires have divorced, how to divide the property?

Brin and wife

According to the documents, Brin wants to raise the children with his wife after the divorce, and he does not ask Shanahan to provide maintenance, but he will not pay shanahan support.

In fact, this was Brin's second divorce. In 2015, Brin announced his divorce from his former wife, Anne Wojcicki. In the same year, Brin and Shanahan began to associate, and in November 2018, the two held a low-key wedding.

Public information shows that Sergey Brin was born in Russia on August 21, 1973, an American-Jewish computer scientist and entrepreneur, graduated from Stanford University, one of the founders of Google, and is currently a director of Google.

According to the latest Forbes data, Brin has more than $90 billion (about 600 billion yuan) in assets, ranking seventh on the world's richest list. Since the details of the divorce are kept secret, it is not known how much Nicole Shanahan will receive.

After 27 years together, the world's richest man divorced

On August 3, 2021, a number of foreign media reported that the Gates couple had obtained court approval, and the marriage relationship between the two was dissolved and they were officially divorced. The 27-year-long marriage finally broke down, which is lamentable.

Bill Gates has won the title of the world's richest man for 13 consecutive years, and should be the richest man known to the Chinese people. His wife, Melinda, is also a very capable woman, and the two began an office romance and entered the palace of marriage in 1994. After getting married, Melinda spent more time in family life, marrying and having children at home, until 27 years later, in May, Melinda announced the end of her marriage with Bill Gates.

These tech billionaires have divorced, how to divide the property?

Bill Gates and Melinda

After bill Gates's divorce came to light, the division of his property attracted attention. Gates owns $130 billion in property, and after the division, Merlin may become the second richest woman. However, the two sides did not disclose specific figures.

According to a Daily Mail report on March 2, 2022, Melinda revealed for the first time the reason for the divorce in an interview with CBS host Gail King: "Because Bill cheated on each other, we can no longer trust each other. ”

Bezos cheated and divorced, and his wife received a huge share of the property

On January 9, 2019, the news came out, when Bezos, the world's richest man with a net worth of $199.7 billion and the head of Amazon, announced on social media that he was about to divorce his wife of 25 years, MacKenzie. On July 5 of the same year, after a court decision, they formally divorced.

Some media said that the reason for the divorce was because Bezos cheated on a female anchor in marriage.

But at the time of the divorce, MacKenzie acquired a huge amount of divorced property — $36 billion worth of Amazon stock. Her net worth soared, and according to forbes, MacKenzie is currently ranked 22nd with a net worth of $58.1 billion, making her the world's third-richest woman, behind Françoise Bertango Meyers from L'Oréal and Alice Walton, the only daughter of the family and Walmart founder Sam Walton.

These tech billionaires have divorced, how to divide the property?

Bezos and Mackenzie

Despite his great wealth, MacKenzie did not spend so much money that he devoted himself to philanthropy. When she divorced, she said that she would donate half of her wealth.

According to the Daily Mail, one year after the divorce, as of July 2020, MacKenzie donated $1.7 billion. By the end of 2020, in just four months, MacKenzie had donated more than $4 billion. In the nine months from June 2021 to March 2022, MacKenzie donated another $3.8 billion to 465 institutions.

In January 2022, Forbes named Mackenzie one of the 25 most generous donors in the United States.

Musk has divorced three times, both times with the same person

Compared with the previous richest men, Musk's love history as the new richest man is much richer. He was married and divorced, and two of them were married and divorced with the same person.

He was twice married and divorced twice by British actress Dalula Riley. Riley is known for her sexiness, and has starred in film and television dramas such as "Inception", "Thor 2", "Westworld" and so on. Although the entertainment career is mediocre, she is actually a science and engineering bully, graduated from the California Institute of Technology, pursued a doctorate in quantum physics, and is a veritable beauty and high-quality student.

These tech billionaires have divorced, how to divide the property?

Musk and British actor Dalula Riley (Image: Business Insider)

Musk's first wife was his college classmate Justin, the two were married for 8 years, Justin decided to divorce Him because he could no longer stand "only rockets and engines" Musk.

In the past 8 years, Justin has given birth to 6 children for Musk (the first child unfortunately died), but when the divorce was finally obtained, because Musk let Justin sign a post-marital property agreement, Justin only received $2 million and a house, which was only a dime compared to Musk's net worth.

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