• 杰夫·贝佐斯跟劳伦·桑切斯婚期将近，然而贝佐斯的巨额财富让这场婚姻变得异常复杂。与第一任妻子离婚损失数十亿美元后，这位巨头的二婚伴随着层层法律保护措施。
杰夫·贝佐斯第二次说“我愿意”时，真正的誓言却可能藏在婚前协议里。由于涉及数百亿美元资产，加上之前的离婚案闹得举世瞩目，这位亚马逊创始人与前新闻主持人劳伦・桑切斯即将举办的婚礼，引发外界对其背后法律细节诸多猜测。目前贝佐斯是全球第四大富豪，身家达2237亿美元。如果没有适当的法律保障，第二段婚姻一旦破裂可能导致他失去巨额财富。
贝佐斯和桑切斯的威尼斯三日婚礼庆典据说耗资达千万美元，于6月24日拉开序幕。2023年二人宣布订婚，后来因婚前协议推迟。据《好莱坞报道》（The Hollywood Reporter），有内部人士称二人原计划2024年冬在阿斯彭完婚，因婚前协议调整推后，据称贝佐斯的律师明确表示婚前协议敲定之前不得结婚。
本次签订婚前协议的背景，是贝佐斯跟前妻麦肯齐·斯科特2019年离婚，之前未作财产方面的约定。斯科特最终分得价值超过380亿美元的亚马逊股票，造就史上最昂贵离婚案之一。当年的离婚文件中还包括爆炸性出轨指控，直指贝佐斯与现未婚妻桑切斯有染。贝佐斯和斯科特结婚25年，远在贝佐斯发迹之前，事实上斯科特是亚马逊首位员工，见证了贝佐斯将亚马逊打造成巨头的过程。她还与贝佐斯育有四个子女。
罗伯特・科恩是Cohen Clair Lans Greifer & Simpson律师事务所的知名离婚律师，曾处理梅琳达・弗兰奇・盖茨和迈克尔・布隆伯格离婚案，他表示贝佐斯二婚选择保护财产并不令人意外。“他们很可能经历过一场噩梦，即前一段离婚诉讼中就财产分配纠缠，两人不想重蹈覆辙，”他对《财富》表示。
桑切斯2019年离婚，第一任丈夫是帕特里克·怀特塞尔，据称她与前夫签过婚前协议，育有两个孩子。两人分手时财产和房产均按照协议分割。
尽管贝佐斯和桑切斯婚前协议的具体细节保密，不过此类文件及筹备过程中有些常见要素。科恩（并非贝佐斯或桑切斯的代理律师）表示，主要内容可能包括资产分配、对桑切斯的经济支持以及遗产条款。他推测，贝佐斯的法律团队会努力限制桑切斯获取财产或所谓的“赡养费”，也会包含对前妻所生四个孩子的保护措施。
“他还需要考虑结束第一段婚姻时的相关安排，因为有些义务可能会影响到当前的婚前协议，”科恩继续说道。
Insight Financial Strategies的理财规划师克里斯·陈说，考虑因素可能包括保障贝佐斯孩子的财务安全。他提到，可能会设立不可撤销信托，让子女成为受益人。
“关键在于婚前协议中如何安排资产，确保桑切斯无法提出主张，同时又要足够慷慨避免她抱怨，”陈补充道。
除了合同条款，贝佐斯的律师可能也在努力确保协议在他拥有房产的司法管辖区和结婚地都获得承认。据推测，贝佐斯主要居住地为迈阿密，几处房产总价值2.37亿美元。贝佐斯在加州、得克萨斯州、华盛顿特区和毛伊岛也有房产，还拥有《华盛顿邮报》（Washington Post ）和商业太空公司蓝色起源（Blue Origin.）。
不同的司法管辖区对法律文件要求也不同。在贝佐斯拥有房产的加州，他要向配偶全面披露财务状况，包括其国内外投资、房地产投资组合，甚至可能涉及企业治理架构。“最好不要有遗漏或错误认定的情况，”科恩补充道。即便有些州没有相关要求，他也建议客户如实披露。
不管婚前协议细节如何，贝佐斯举办的婚礼都不是小事。以他的财富规模，婚姻既是浪漫结合，更是精密筹划的商业行为。（*）
译者：夏林
• 杰夫·贝佐斯跟劳伦·桑切斯婚期将近，然而贝佐斯的巨额财富让这场婚姻变得异常复杂。与第一任妻子离婚损失数十亿美元后，这位巨头的二婚伴随着层层法律保护措施。
杰夫·贝佐斯第二次说“我愿意”时，真正的誓言却可能藏在婚前协议里。由于涉及数百亿美元资产，加上之前的离婚案闹得举世瞩目，这位亚马逊创始人与前新闻主持人劳伦・桑切斯即将举办的婚礼，引发外界对其背后法律细节诸多猜测。目前贝佐斯是全球第四大富豪，身家达2237亿美元。如果没有适当的法律保障，第二段婚姻一旦破裂可能导致他失去巨额财富。
贝佐斯和桑切斯的威尼斯三日婚礼庆典据说耗资达千万美元，于6月24日拉开序幕。2023年二人宣布订婚，后来因婚前协议推迟。据《好莱坞报道》（The Hollywood Reporter），有内部人士称二人原计划2024年冬在阿斯彭完婚，因婚前协议调整推后，据称贝佐斯的律师明确表示婚前协议敲定之前不得结婚。
本次签订婚前协议的背景，是贝佐斯跟前妻麦肯齐·斯科特2019年离婚，之前未作财产方面的约定。斯科特最终分得价值超过380亿美元的亚马逊股票，造就史上最昂贵离婚案之一。当年的离婚文件中还包括爆炸性出轨指控，直指贝佐斯与现未婚妻桑切斯有染。贝佐斯和斯科特结婚25年，远在贝佐斯发迹之前，事实上斯科特是亚马逊首位员工，见证了贝佐斯将亚马逊打造成巨头的过程。她还与贝佐斯育有四个子女。
罗伯特・科恩是Cohen Clair Lans Greifer & Simpson律师事务所的知名离婚律师，曾处理梅琳达・弗兰奇・盖茨和迈克尔・布隆伯格离婚案，他表示贝佐斯二婚选择保护财产并不令人意外。“他们很可能经历过一场噩梦，即前一段离婚诉讼中就财产分配纠缠，两人不想重蹈覆辙，”他对《财富》表示。
桑切斯2019年离婚，第一任丈夫是帕特里克·怀特塞尔，据称她与前夫签过婚前协议，育有两个孩子。两人分手时财产和房产均按照协议分割。
尽管贝佐斯和桑切斯婚前协议的具体细节保密，不过此类文件及筹备过程中有些常见要素。科恩（并非贝佐斯或桑切斯的代理律师）表示，主要内容可能包括资产分配、对桑切斯的经济支持以及遗产条款。他推测，贝佐斯的法律团队会努力限制桑切斯获取财产或所谓的“赡养费”，也会包含对前妻所生四个孩子的保护措施。
“他还需要考虑结束第一段婚姻时的相关安排，因为有些义务可能会影响到当前的婚前协议，”科恩继续说道。
Insight Financial Strategies的理财规划师克里斯·陈说，考虑因素可能包括保障贝佐斯孩子的财务安全。他提到，可能会设立不可撤销信托，让子女成为受益人。
“关键在于婚前协议中如何安排资产，确保桑切斯无法提出主张，同时又要足够慷慨避免她抱怨，”陈补充道。
除了合同条款，贝佐斯的律师可能也在努力确保协议在他拥有房产的司法管辖区和结婚地都获得承认。据推测，贝佐斯主要居住地为迈阿密，几处房产总价值2.37亿美元。贝佐斯在加州、得克萨斯州、华盛顿特区和毛伊岛也有房产，还拥有《华盛顿邮报》（Washington Post ）和商业太空公司蓝色起源（Blue Origin.）。
不同的司法管辖区对法律文件要求也不同。在贝佐斯拥有房产的加州，他要向配偶全面披露财务状况，包括其国内外投资、房地产投资组合，甚至可能涉及企业治理架构。“最好不要有遗漏或错误认定的情况，”科恩补充道。即便有些州没有相关要求，他也建议客户如实披露。
不管婚前协议细节如何，贝佐斯举办的婚礼都不是小事。以他的财富规模，婚姻既是浪漫结合，更是精密筹划的商业行为。（*）
译者：夏林
• Jeff Bezos’ upcoming marriage to Lauren Sanchez has been complicated by his immense wealth. After losing billions in his split from his first wife, the Amazon mogul’s second chance at love comes with new layers of legal protections.
When Jeff Bezos says “I do” for the second time, the real vows may be in his prenuptial agreement. With billions on the line and a famously public divorce behind him, the Amazon founder’s pending nuptials with former news anchor Lauren Sanchez are raising speculation about the legal fine print behind the mogul’s highly anticipated wedding. Bezos, who is the fourth richest person in the world and currently worth $223.7 billion, stands to lose a significant amount of his fortune without the proper legal protections should his second marriage fail.
Bezos and Sanchez’s three-day Venetian wedding celebration kicks off on June 24 and is said to be costing the couple upwards of $10 million. The couple announced their engagement in 2023, but ultimately delayed tying the knot due to delays with the prenup. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an insider said that the Bezos-Sanchez marriage was originally planned for the winter of 2024 in Aspen, but adjustments to the legal agreement pushed the date back, with Bezos’ lawyers allegedly forbidding the billionaire from moving forward until the prenup was settled.
Bezos’ and Sanchez’ prenup comes after the Amazon founder’s divorce in 2019 from MacKenzie Scott in which no such agreement existed. Scott walked away with more than $38 billion in Amazon shares, making the split one of the costliest separations in history. The divorce included explosive cheating allegations that accused Bezos of having an affair with now-fiancée Sanchez. The pair’s 25-year marriage long predated Bezos’ financial success; indeed, Scott worked as the first Amazon employee and witnessed Bezos usher Amazon into its iconic position. She also has four children with Bezos.
Bezos’ decision to protect his assets the second time around isn’t shocking to high-profile divorce attorney Robert Cohen, of Cohen Clair Lans Greifer & Simpson, who has handled the divorces of Melinda French Gates and Michael Bloomberg. “They’ve likely been through a nightmare before, which is litigation over their prior divorce and how much you’re giving the other side, or getting, and they don’t want to do that,” he tells Fortune.
Sanchez, who was married to her first husband Patrick Whitesell until 2019, allegedly signed a prenup with her former spouse with whom she shares two children. When the couple split, their assets and properties were divided per the agreement.
While the intimate details of Bezos and Sanchez’s prenup are private and confidential, there are several common components likely to be present in the document and its preparations. Cohen, who is not representing Bezos or Sanchez, said the main factors are likely the sharing of assets, providing support for Sanchez, and death provisions. Within the terms, he speculates that Bezos’ legal team will seek to limit what Sanchez would receive of his assets or so-called “alimony” and would include protections for his four children from his first marriage.
“He’s also going to want to consider what he’s done to terminate his first marriage, because there may be obligations in that that would affect the prenup,” Cohen continues.
Some of these considerations could include protecting the financial security of Bezos’ children, says Chris Chen, a financial planner with Insight Financial Strategies. He points to the potential establishment of an irrevocable trust where the children are beneficiaries.
“It’s about how to put the assets in the prenup in such a way that Lauren doesn’t have a claim to them and, at the same time, being generous enough that she doesn’t really have a reason to complain,” Chen adds.
Aside from the terms of the contract, Bezos’ lawyers will likely be working to ensure the contract is recognized in the jurisdictions where he owns property and where he is married. The Amazon founder’s speculated primary residence is in Miami where he owns several properties totalling an estimated $237 million. Bezos also maintains estates in California, Texas, Washington, D.C., and Maui and owns the Washington Post and aerospace company Blue Origin.
Different jurisdictions also have different requirements for the legal document. In California, where Bezos owns property, he would be required to disclose to his spouse a complete picture of his finances encompassing his domestic and foreign investments, real estate portfolios, and potentially corporate governance frameworks. “You don’t want there to be anything that you omit or misidentify,” Cohen adds. Even in states that don’t require disclosure, he says he advises his clients to do so anyway.
Regardless of the prenuptial agreement’s details, Bezos’ upcoming wedding is no small feat. With a fortune his size, marriage is as much business as it is romance.