MacKenzie Scott

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MacKenzie Scott , previously MacKenzie Bezos (/ ˈbeɪzoʊs /; * April 7, 1970 in San Francisco , California as MacKenzie Scott Tuttle ) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist and author .

With a fortune of over 60 billion US dollars (as of July 2020), most of which she gained through her divorce from Jeff Bezos ( Amazon founder and boss), she is currently the second richest woman in the world, after Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers ( As of June 2020).

Life

MacKenzie Scott Tuttle was born in San Francisco on April 7, 1970, to a financial planner and housewife. In 1988 she graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut . Tuttle received her BA in English from Princeton University in 1992 .

Later she worked in the financial sector, as an author and helped her husband Jeff Bezos , the company Amazon build, with whom she was married from 1993 until their divorce of 2019.

In 2014, Bezos founded Bystander Revolution , an anti-bullying organization in which she works as a managing director.

In 2019 she joined The Giving Pledge initiative . MacKenzie Bezos, together with Melinda Gates, is committed to solutions for gender equality in the workplace and donated $ 30 million for this. She also donated a sum in the millions for a Covid-19 aid fund endowed with a total of 100 million dollars.

In July 2020, she made public that she had donated nearly $ 1.7 billion to 116 charities the previous year and will continue to do so in the future.

Private

She met Jeff Bezos in 1992 while they were both working at DE Shaw & Co. , a hedge fund in New York City . They married in 1993 and moved in 1994 to Seattle ( Washington ). They have four children: three sons and a daughter who was adopted from China.

On January 9, 2019, MacKenzie and Jeff Bezos announced via Twitter that they were divorcing. On April 4, 2019, the divorce was finalized, McKenzie retained 25% of the Amazon shares she and Jeff Bezos held, and gave control of the Blue Origin company to her ex-husband. MacKenzie still holds Amazon shares worth $ 35.6 billion.

After their divorce, she dropped the surname Bezos and has been calling herself Scott instead, previously her middle name.

Quote

"I have no doubt that a person's personal wealth is the result of a collective effort and social structures that provide opportunities for some people and obstacles for innumerable other people."

- MacKenzie Scott (2020)

Awards

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "MacKenzie Bezos Is Now The Second Richest Woman In The World" on celebritynetworth.com from June 27, 2020 (English)
  2. ↑ Nick Statt: MacKenzie Scott has already donated nearly $ 1.7 billion of her Amazon wealth since divorcing Jeff Bezos. July 28, 2020, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Rebecca Johnson: MacKenzie Bezos: Writer, Mother of Four, and High-profile Wife . In: Vogue . 20th February 2013.
  4. ↑ Bystander Revolution .
  5. ↑ Ex-wife of the Amazon boss: MacKenzie Bezos wants to donate half of her fortune . In: Spiegel Online . May 28, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 29, 2019]).
  6. ^ "MacKenzie Bezos And Melinda Gates Team Up On $ 30 Million Gender Equity Contest," on forbes.com June 16, 2020
  7. ↑ "Bezos-Ex is now the second richest woman in the world" , on bild.de from June 30, 2020
  8. ↑ https://medium.com/@mackenzie_scott/116-organizations-driving-change-67354c6d733d
  9. ↑ Levi Sumagaysay: Quoted: She Said, He Said - MacKenzie Bezos Vs. Author Of Book On Amazon . The Mercury News. 5th November 2013.
  10. ↑ Jeff Bezos Fast Facts . CNN. 2019. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  11. ↑ Mike Snider: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie to divorce after 25 years of marriage . Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  12. ↑ n-tv NEWS: Bezos'-Ex is now multi-billionaire. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/28/21345440/mackenzie-scott-jeff-bezos-amazon-wealth-donation-philanthropy
  14. ↑ MacKenzie Scott in a blog, quoted from: Leipziger Volkszeitung, July 30, 2020, p. 28
  15. ^ MacKenzie Bezos, Brian Sutherland: The Testing of Luther Albright ( English ), Unabridged. Edition, Brilliance Audio, December 2013, ISBN 9781480569157 .
  16. ^ MacKenzie Bezos: Traps . Vintage, New York 2013, ISBN 9780307950291 .
personal data
SURNAME Scott, MacKenzie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scott Tuttle, MacKenzie (maiden name); Bezos, MacKenzie (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American businesswoman, philanthropist, and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California