Jackie Bezos

Jacklyn Bezos (née Gise, formerly Jorgensen; born December 29, 1946) is an American billionaire and philanthropist who provided the initial investment to launch Amazon.com. She is a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation. She is the mother of Jeff Bezos and Mark Bezos, and the ex-wife of Ted Jorgensen. Early life Jacklyn Bezos was born as Jacklyn Gise on December 29, 1946 to a father who worked at Sandia National Laboratories. She grew up in Bernalillo, New Mexico and attended high school in Albuquerque. In high school, Jacklyn dated unicyclist Ted Jorgensen. She became pregnant in 1963 when Jorgensen was 18 and she was 16, shortly before they got married in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. They had a second ceremony in the United States on July 19 the same year. Jacklyn gave birth to Jeff Bezos on January 12, 1964, two weeks after her 17th birthday. They named the child Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen at birth. Her high school sought to block her from graduating, but later relented, after banning her from socialising with other students.