Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s newlywed bliss has come to a tragic end. The Amazon founder, 61, married his partner of six years in a luxury Italian wedding ceremony in late July, but despite a lavish European honeymoon, the time basking in their marital bliss has come to a screeching halt for personal reasons. Bezos …

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos on Thursday paid tribute to his mother, Jackie Bezos, who died at 78 after a five-year battle with dementia. She was one of the first two investors in her son's fledgling e-commerce venture when it launched from the garage of a rented home in Washington in 1995.

"She passed away today, surrounded by so many of us who loved her," the Amazon founder wrote in a tribute for her