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Jackie Bezos, Jeff Bezos's mother, dies: All you need to know about Amazon founder's big family
Jackie Bezos, Jeff Bezos's mother, who passed away on August 14, 2025, is survived by her husband, her three children, 11 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Jackie Bezos, the mother of Jeff Bezos, passed away on Thursday (August 14, 2025) in Miami, aged 78. She was one of the first investors in Amazon. Bezos shared the news of her mother's demise on social media, stating that she died due to Lewy body dementia, a neurological was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia in 2020, the Bezos Family Foundation said in a statement. She is survived by her husband, her three children, 11 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild, the family foundation said.
Jeff Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Jackie Bezos and Ted Jorgensen. Later, Miguel Bezos, his adoptive father, became part of his family. He has two siblings: a brother, Mark Bezos, and a sister, Christina Bezos.
Jackie Bezos: Born on December 29, 1946, Jackie Bezos was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she had her first child, Jeff, at 17. She died peacefully in her Miami home on August 14, 2025, at the age of 78.
While attending night school and working in a bank, she met her second husband, Miguel Bezos, to whom she was married for nearly 60 years until her death, and who adopted Jeff. They had two other children, Christina and 1995, Jackie Bezos and her husband invested just over $245,000 in Amazon, the online bookstore that her son founded in 1994. It grew to become one of the world's most valuable companies, valued today at almost $2.5 trillion. "Her adulthood started a little bit early when she became my mom at the tender age of 17. That couldn't have been easy, but she made it all work," Jeff Bezos Jorgensen: Ted Jorgensen was the biological father of Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder was born to teenage parents, Jackie Bezos and Ted Jorgensen, who split when Jeff was still an infant. Jeff lost all contact with his biological father. Jackie's second husband, Miguel Bezos, adopted him at age Bezos: Miguel Bezos was Jackie's second husband and Jeff Bezos's stepfather, whom she married on April 5, 1968, when Jeff was four years old. Miguel, a Cuban immigrant who moved to the United States in 1962 at age 16. According to media reports, Jackie and Miguel first met when they were both working at the Bank of New Mexico. Miguel had started a job as a clerk on the overnight shift to earn extra money while he studied at the University of Albuquerque, and Jacklyn began working in their bookkeeping department following her divorce from Ted. Their shifts overlapped by an hour.
Mark Bezos: Mark Bezos is the half-brother of Jeff Bezos. Born to Miguel and Jackie in 1970, Mark Bezos grew up spending his summers on his grandparents' ranch with Jeff and his sister, Christina. After completing high school, Mark attended Texas Christian University. Later, he started his career in the advertising industry, working at companies like DDB Needham and Renegade Marketing Group, per AdWeek. By 1999, Mark had founded his agency, the Bezos-Nathanson Marketing Group, alongside his longtime colleague David Nathanson, according to PEOPLE. Over a decade later, Mark founded a private equity firm called HighPost Capital with professional investor David Moross. Besides advertising and investing, Mark also served on the board of directors for several organizations.
Christina Bezos: Christina was born to Miguel and Jackie in 1969. She is Jeff's half sister. She grew close to Jeff. According to a 1997 SEC filing, Christina and Mark were two of his family members who decided to invest, PEOPLE reported, citing Bloomberg Ex-Spouse MacKenzie Scott: MacKenzie Scott is an American philanthropist and novelist. She was married to the Amazon founder for over 25 years, and the couple has four children together. Following their split in early 2019, both Jeff and MacKenzie maintained that they were still good friends and would continue to co-parent their children.
Current Partner: Jeff Bezos announced and confirmed his relationship with news anchor Lauren Sanchez in 2019. At the start of their relationship, Lauren was also getting divorced from her husband and Hollywood agent, Patrick Whitesell. Sanchez and Bezos got engaged in May 2023. The two got married in June 2025.
