How Bike Shop Owner Discovered He Was Jeff Bezos’ Dad

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Published 2019-07-09

Jeff Bezos changed the way we shop forever when he founded Amazon in 1994. He later became the world’s richest man. In 2014, Inside Edition met his biological father, Ted Jorgensen, a bicycle repairman in Phoenix. He was a teenage circus performer when he married Bezos’ mom and after their marriage broke up, Jorgensen gave up custody of his son. “Big mistake,” he told Inside Edition. He only realized who his son was when a biographer contacted him. Jorgensen passed away in 2015. #InsideEdition

All Comments (21)

@disispeter 3 years ago

It’s disrespectful to say he wasted his life fixing bikes
@amberfoster8089 2 years ago

The poor man. His whole life insulted by a disrespectful bad reporter. Making him and his achievements look small.
@nishalnandwani 2 years ago

"Toiled away in obscurity." Thats like 99% of us, and they make it sound terrible and shameful.
@MistaZipps 2 years ago

"In the bike shop, where he toiled away in obscurity for the next 40 years." Jesus, give the man some credit for living his life the way he wanted.
@lewisburton1852 3 years ago

Damn, they act like He’s living in a dumpster. Chill out.
@RVboyjunior 3 years ago

He did well himself as a businessman until this reporter decided to downplay his achievements just to highlight Jeff's net worth.
@Brassard1985 2 years ago

“Toiled away in obscurity”. This report is blatantly condescending and disrespectful. So if you’re not a billionaire and just have a reasonably modest job, you’ve wasted your life? That’s ridiculous.
@Phawks-Phire 2 years ago

Man, a lot of people can't even afford to live in the house his father is living in. Don't downplay his life accomplishments.
@moontobe1829 2 years ago

I dislike how they downplayed his achievements.
@gabogd5885 2 years ago

What a disrespectful report, so if you're not a billionaire your life is a waste? That says a lot about the producers
@clayjack9969 2 years ago

mentalities like this reporter’s is what will lead to having a very depressing life. Valuing monetary success over almost everything.
@SatoshiFibonacci 1 month ago

Do you know how hard it is to have a small business running for that long? Don’t diminish his accomplishments
@dylanmurray9973 4 years ago

To be honest, that guy probably lived a fulfilling life. Don’t make a successful guy seem like a loser because he isn’t the ceo of Amazon.
@shuhratkessikbayev8886 4 years ago

Just because this old man owns a bike shop, makes a decent living, has a wife and a nice house, and isn't the CEO of a successful online shopping service doesn't mean he's "living in obscurity"
@hps69 2 years ago

I'm just happy the man got to know what became of his son before he passed away, regardless of if he saw him again or not. That in itself probably made him proud and gave some clarity to something he'd probably been wondering for much of his life
@garudateams 2 years ago

“Jorgensen toiled away in obscurity for the next 40 years working in his bike shop” What a disrespectful belittling statement to someones life.
@jacobmulligan5962 4 years ago

Jeff has the perfect backstory for becoming a super villain. Lost his wife, never met his father. Extremely rich.
@KDawnn 2 years ago

This is an absolutely disturbing interview making him out to see worthless because he wasn’t crazy successful. Looks like he lived a happy life to me.
@ChristianSwayne 2 years ago

"this news would change his life forever" dude died a year later
@MC-874 2 years ago

Its so depressing that He wasnt able to see his own son in his entire life.