It was once they had married that they decided Mike would adopt Jeff and become his legal father. 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Then and now: Ted Jorgensen was a teenage unicyclist (left) when his son Jeffrey was born, and he only learned that the boy grew up to be Jeff Bezos last year (pictured right this year, at age 69) Unlike his son who has mapped out his life according to what he calls ‘a regret minimalization framework,’ Mr Jorgensen revealed that he is riven with thoughts of what might have been. Jorgensen was 18 and Gise was 16 when she became pregnant. After his parents divorced, his mother married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968. Govt officials caught having sex during video conferenceHerschel Walker's son calls Jacob Blake a 'crazy violent criminal'BLM mob confronts woman who won't raise her fist in solidarity At the time of his birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student and his father was a bike shop owner. Though his bike shop was a much smaller scale than Jeff Bezos’ business endeavors, it was This site uses cookies. This meant that Ted had to give up full custody of Jeff, which he did willingly. Miguel “Mike” Bezos was the man that married Jaclyn Gise after her divorce from Jeff Bezos’ biological father, Ted Jorgensen. He was thus completely unaware that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and one of the wealthiest men in history, was his biological son.Jorgensen only became aware of the truth in 2012 when Jeff Bezos, who had only ever known Miguel as his father, seemingly had no interest in meeting with Ted Jorgensen but Ted Jorgensen passed away on March 16, 2015, having failed to meet his biological son in person. Read our privacy policy for more information. Jorgensen was unaware that he was the father of the Amazon founder until a few years before his death in 2015. As the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos is one of the wealthiest people in the world, if not the wealthiest. For more on the stories of Ted Jorgensen and Jeff Bezos, read on. Early life. 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