Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott came to the spotlight when she went on a donation spree amounting to $4.2 billion in the last four months. She donated most of her wealth to historically marginalized and underserved people, civil rights advocacy groups, and legal defense funds that take on institutional discrimination.
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MacKenzie Scott has donated $4.2 billion over the last four months to hundreds of organizations. Awe-inspiring feat from the 22nd world's richest person.
Her donation includes organizations such as food banks and emergency relief funds.
She says that her donation focuses on 'historically marginalized and underserved people, civil rights advocacy groups, and legal defense funds that take on institutional discrimination.'
Scott wrote:
"This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling. Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires."
In a Medium post 'mackenzie-scott.medium.com,' the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said:
"After my post in July, I asked a team of advisors to help me accelerate my 2020 giving through immediate support to people suffering the economic effects of the crisis. They took a data-driven approach to identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results, with special attention to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital."
Altogether, Scott has donated to charity over 384 organizations in 2019, including organizations in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
How Much Is MacKenzie Scott Net Worth?
MacKenzie Scott has a net worth of $61 billion as per celebritynetworth.com. Also, Scott has 4% of shares in the leading company Amazon. According to Forbes, she is the 22nd ranked for the world's richest person.
Speaking about her career, MacKenzie Scott had a financial crisis when her family went to bankruptcy in 1948. She worked hard enough to get to University. After graduating from Princeton, Scott moved to New York and began to work as a research associate at D.E. Shaw.
Scott was talented from an early age. At the age of six, she attempted to write a 142-page manuscript book called The Book Worm.
After Scott got married to Jeff Bezos, both founded Amazon, where she worked as an accountant.
MacKenzie Scott and her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos (©: glamourbiz.com)
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Scott has always had a passion for writings, so she published the first book, The Testing of Luther Albright, in 2005, which took her almost ten years to complete.
From the book, she won an American Book Award in 2006. Later, Scott published her second novel Trapped, in 2013, which later adapted into the Hollywood thriller movie.
MacKenzie Scott worked as an activist and founded an anti-bullying organization, 'Bystander Revolution,' in 2014. And as of now, she is promoted to the executive director of the foundation.
After a divorce from her ex-husband Bezos, she got a settlement amount of 5% in Amazon stock in January 2020, making her the owner of a 4% stake in the company. She was worth $36 billion at the time of divorce.