Family of Jeff Bezos

Family of Jeff Bezos
Current region	Florida, Houston, Texas and San Francisco, United States of America
Members	Miguel Bezos Jackie Bezos Jeff Bezos Ted Jorgensen Mark Bezos Lauren Sánchez MacKenzie Scott

The family of Jeff Bezos, who is an American business magnate, is active in business and philanthropy. Bezos and his former wife MacKenzie Scott co-founded Amazon.

Jeff's mother and stepfather are the co-founders of the Bezos Family Foundation.

The family members have Danish-American, Mexican American and Cuban heritage.

Notable family members

• Ted Jorgensen (1944–2015) is the Danish-American biological father of Bezos. ^[1] Jorgensen was a unicycle hockey player as a youth, and a bicycle shop owner as an adult. ^{[2] [1]} He left Bezos and his mother when Bezos was an infant. ^[1]
• Miguel Bezos (born 1945 or 1946 ^[3] ) is the step-father of Jeff Bezos. ^{[4] [5]} He was born in Cuba ^[5] and moved to the United States in 1962. ^[6] He is the vice-president and the co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation. ^[5]
• Jackie Bezos (1946-2025) is the mother of Jeff Bezos. ^[1] She was married to Jorgensen from 1963 to 1965. ^[1] She later married Miguel Bezos. ^[7]
• Mark Bezos (born 1967) is the half brother of Jeff Bezos. ^[8] He is a space tourist, a volunteer fire fighter, and former advertising executive. ^{[9] [10]}
• Lauren Sánchez (born 1969) is Bezos’s second and current wife, marrying him in 2025. She is a former journalist and current philanthropist. ^[11] Sánchez is Mexican-American. ^[12]
• MacKenzie Scott (born 1970) is the former wife of Bezos, marrying him in 1993 and divorcing him in 2019. ^[13] Scott is a writer, ^[14] philanthropist, ^[15] and co-founder of Amazon.com. ^[16]

Other immediate family members

Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie are the parents of four children: three sons, and one daughter adopted from China. ^{[17] [18] [19]}

Jackie and Miguel are also the parents of Jeff's half sister Christina. ^[20]

In popular culture

The family features in Brad Stone's 2013 book The Everything Store ^[21] and in the 2022 biographical film Bezos: The Beginning, directed by Khoa Le. ^[22] The film was based on the 2021 book Zero to Hero, Bezos: The Beginning ( ISBN   979-8709873797). ^[23]

References

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2. Steven Ellis (13 March 2021) The Weird, Wild and Wacky World Of Unicycle Hockey Archived 2022-09-28 at the Wayback Machine , The Hockey News
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13. Snider, Mike (January 9, 2019). "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie to divorce after 25 years of marriage". USA Today . Archived from the original on January 9, 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
14. "7 Things To Know About MacKenzie Scott, The Woman Who Donated $6 Billion In 2020". British Vogue. December 22, 2020. Archived from the original on August 8, 2022. Retrieved December 24, 2020.
15. Schleifer, Theodore (May 28, 2019). "MacKenzie Bezos signed the philanthropic commitment her ex-husband spurned". Vox. Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
16. Bromwich, Jonah Engel; Alter, Alexandra (January 12, 2019). "Who Is MacKenzie Scott?" . The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 13, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
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20. "Meet Mark Bezos, accompanying big bro Jeff Bezos on his upcoming space flight". South China Morning Post. 2021-06-13. Archived from the original on 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
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22. Ritman, Alex (2022-11-04). "AFM: 'Bezos The Beginning' Delves into the Business Brain Before the Billions". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2023-05-26. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
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