Yed demonstrated an entrepreneurial nous for financial and business matters early on in his adult life when as a student he started a lucrative games arcade to supplement his meagre income.įriends and family have said the young student displayed a natural entrepreneurial instinct and tenacity, and was able to spot opportunities – a talent he eventually turned into a thriving African business venture with global ambitions. Adele also started out as a teacher before becoming a social education worker. His mother, Adele Assa Yed ( nee Edjeme Assa Adele), grew up in a relatively privileged household where her father was famously once received as a guest in the home of Cote d’Ivoire’s president Houphouet Boigny during the country’s post-independence campaign in 1960. Early Lifeīorn Desnos Toussaint Yed on November 1, 1968, in Becede, a village in the southern Ivorian province of Sikensi, Yed’s father, Atenou Yed Andre, worked as a teacher and later a professor. Yed is Chairman and President of YEDCOR International, Chairman of the company’s mining, carrier and agricultural division Geb & Nut, and a board member of Desnos T. Known as one of the wealthiest and most respected Ivorian businessmen, an art collector and philanthropist, Desnos T. In the aftermath of the Ivorian political crisis, in June 2000, Yed announced the relocation of his head office to Johannesburg, South Africa. Yed later started the firm Yecor International in 1997, with huge success. The source continued: “Ted was just a teenager, you can’t pin it all on him.African businessman and philanthropist Desnos Toussaint Yed was born on 1 November 1968 in Becede in the province of Sikensi in the Ivory Coast.ĭemonstrating a knack for entrepreneurship as a student in the mid-1980s, Yed was supplementing his income running a lucrative games arcade to ease the financial burden on his parents. Jorgensen, meanwhile married wife Lisa and was a loving stepfather to her four sons.īezos has biological family he has never met. When he was 4, Jackie married Miguel Bezos, who adopted Jeff as his own.

I don’t want to push my way in or push the other dad out of the way. “Other than that I don’t want anything from him. He insisted: “I just want to see him as my son, just to have him acknowledge that I’m his father and he’s my son. The last time I saw him he was in diapers.” That was the only child I ever had – that makes a difference too. Then I just reached a point where I thought he was long gone. “I used to wonder all the time though whatever happened to Jeff. Jorgensen later said: “I had a number, but Jeff’s mother asked me not to interfere so I didn’t want to call. “I wasn’t a good father or a good husband,” said Jorgensen, who said at the time he planned to re-establish contact with the Bezos family. When shown photos of Bezos, Jorgensen’s eyes filled with sorrow and disbelief, according to the book. Jorgensen had no idea who Bezos was - or his connection to him.Īt the time, Jorgensen admitted: “I didn’t know where he was, if he had a good job or not, or if he was alive or dead.” Reporter Brad Stone, author of “ The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and Amazon,” tracked Jorgensen down to a small bike repair shop in Glendale, Arizona in 2012. He and Jackie were married for two years before she left, taking their infant son with her. Jorgensen was 18 and a unicyclist and rising star on the niche circuit. Jorgensen and Bezos’ mother, Jackie, were just teenagers when she became pregnant in Albuquerque, NM. “I don’t really understand why, when he knew where his father was, that Jeff never wanted to meet him. He would never talk about it, but I know it was hard for him. He went to his grave never having spoken to him. “But the sad part is that he never met Jeff after he found out he was his biological father. However, despite reportedly being sent a letter by Bezos, Jorgensen died in 2015, aged 70, without ever meeting his son, and a family source told us: “Ted was just a teenager when Jeff was born, he was good and bad, just like anybody else. Ted Jorgensen, a bike shop owner in Arizona, was stunned to discover Bezos was the son he last saw when he was barely 1 year old after being approached by a writer working on the biography of the CEO. The biological dad of scandal-hit Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos died without ever reuniting with his son, Page Six has learned.

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