Philanthropist, Journalist, and Novelist MacKenzie Scott rose to notoriety as the ex-wife of Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos. According to Forbes, she is the top richest woman and ranked 22th in the world's richest person.
Scott is also the major shareholder of the leading online storeAmazon, founder of Bystander Revolution in 2014, and a co-founder of the Bezos Family Foundation.
Let's explore more about MacKenzie Scott below!
Divorce Settlement With Jeff Bezos
MacKenzie Scott was married to the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, in 1993.
Scott first met Bezos in 1992, where she was working as a research associate at D.E. Shaw in New York. They began dating for three months and were engaged. Scott was 23 when she eventually got married in 1993 to Bezos.
Soon after their marriage, they moved to Seattle, Washington, where Scott was involved in Amazon's founding, working as an accountant.
MacKenzie Scott and her ex-husband Jeff Bezos (©: thesun.co.uk)
The ex-couple has four children from their marriage, among which three are biological and a daughter, which Scott adopted from China.
The love story came to an end when Scott tweeted about their divorce on 4 January 2019, and it was the most expensive divorce in the world. The settlement amount was huge, which made her get ranked as the 22nd world's richest person. She even got a 4% share from the world's most prominent online company Amazon.
Jeff Bezos is the world's richest person back-to-back despite giving $36 billion worth of his Amazon stock to his ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos as part of their divorce settlement.
Who Is MacKenzie Scott?
Best known as the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott was born on 7 April 1970 in San Francisco, California. Born to a Roman Catholic family, her father is Jason Baker Tuttle, and her mother is Jacqueline Gise. In the family, she has two siblings.
MacKenzie Scott's father, Jason Baker Tuttle, was banned by the SEC in the late 80s after allegedly spending his client's money with his 'lavish spending.' Their family forced them to give up their privileged life in California and move to Florida.
In 1987, MacKenzie's father, Jason, filed personal bankruptcy and filed bankruptcy on behalf of his investment firm, 'The J. Baker Tuttle Corp.' After the bankruptcy of a family business, MacKenzie worked multiple jobs to pay her way through the school and described her financial struggles in previous interviews.
In 1988, MacKenzie Scott graduated from Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. She studied under a Nobel-prize winning novelist, Toni Morrison, during her time at University. She completed her studies in English at Princeton University with the highest honors in 1992.