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MacKenzie Scott Forbes Net Worth And Biography

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Jan 29, 2024
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MacKenzie Scott, is an American novelist, billionaire, and venture philanthropist, who has a net worth of $68 billion. She has served as the executive director of Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization she founded, since 2014.

MacKenzie Scott Forbes Net Worth

  • MacKenzie Scott is an author and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married for 25 years. They divorced in mid 2019.
  • As part of the divorce settlement, Jeff transferred 25% of his Amazon stake to MacKenzie, which was 4% of the company.
  • In May 2019, shortly after she announced the terms of the divorce on Twitter, she signed the Giving Pledge.
  • MacKenzie and Jeff met in 1992 when they both worked at hedge fund D.E. Shaw. They married the next year and moved to Seattle in 1994.
  • Scott, who has published two novels, was a student of author Toni Morrison at Princeton and worked as a research assistant for her.
  • In late July 2020, she announced she’d given nearly $1.7 billion to 119 nonprofit groups, and that she changed her last name from Bezos to Scott.
  • Mackenzie Scott is the richest woman in the world with a net worth of $68 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire index .
  • Bezos and Scott divorced in 2019, and as a result, Scott gained billions of shares of Amazon worth an estimated $38 billion .

She was Born in April 7, 1970, in San Francisco, California, Scott graduated from Princeton University in 1992 where she studied under writer Toni Morrison. After graduating, she worked for D. E. Shaw, a quantitative hedge fund in New York, as an administrative assistant from 1992 to 1994. Scott wrote her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, eleven years later in 2005, for which she won an American Book Award in 2006.

Scott was married to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, from 1993 to 2019. Their divorce made her the third-wealthiest woman in the world and one of the wealthiest people overall by April 2019.

MacKenzie Scott Forbes Net Worth

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