When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' romance with current wife Lauren Sánchez came to light in early 2019 and Bezos announced his divorce from first wife MacKenzie Scott, many were shocked by the news. However, the truth about Bezos and Scott's divorce was that it was apparently a long time coming, with Bezos' lawyer claiming that they had already been separated for some time by that point. And looking at some of the comments Bezos made even before that, it seems like there were some glaring signs that he and his first wife were always going to get divorced.
"The number one criterion was that I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. What I really wanted was someone resourceful," Bezos told Wired in 1999. It suggests that, at least back then, Bezos seemed to value pr