The writer McKesie Scott became the richest woman in the world. Thus, the 50-year-old native of San Francisco surpassed the longtime winner – Françoise Bettencourt Meyers.
What is known about Mackenzie Scott?
Mackenzie Scott was born on April 7, 1970, in San Francisco, California. Her father worked as a financier, and her mother took care of the house.
Mackenzie graduated from Princeton University in 1992. After graduation, she worked as a dishwasher, waitress, clothing salesman, cashier, nanny, etc. But these funds were not enough, and she decided to get a job at the New York D. E. Shaw Foundation as an administrative assistant.
Mackenzie Scott also worked at one time as an assistant for the American writer Toni Morrison and wrote two novels herself. Her debut work was the novel The Trial of Luther Albright. In 2006, Scott received the American Book Award for him. The book is about an engineer whose life is crumbling after an earthquake in his hometown.
The second novel, Traps, was published in 2013. The book has four main characters: a movie star, a security consultant, a young mother, and a recovering alcoholic. They all struggle with life’s difficulties, and their fates intersect.
Divorce with the owner of Amazon
Writer, philanthropist, billionaire – this is how you can describe 50-year-old Mackenzie Scott. The American, who published in 2006 the popular book “The Test of Luther Albright”, according to Bloomberg magazine, this year was included in the ranking of the richest women in the world. Scott and Bezos divorced in April 2019 after 25 years of marriage. In the divorce, Mackenzie received 4% of Amazon shares, at that time they were worth about $ 38.3 billion. Since the beginning of 2020, the value of the shares has risen by more than 89%. In the ranking of the most valuable companies in the world, traded on American stock exchanges, Amazon ranks second after Apple.
Own projects
But the 50-year-old American has a lot of her projects. So, in 2014, she founded the non-profit organization Bystander Revolution, which fights against domestic violence. Mackenzie Scott regularly donates huge sums of money to charity. For example, over the past year, she channeled up to $ 1.7 billion to charity projects. According to Bloomberg, Mackenzie Scott’s total current assets are $ 68 billion. Something tells us that few people with this condition will surpass this result in the coming years. Mackenzie Scott, formerly known as Mackenzie Bezos, has donated approximately $ 1.7 billion in assets to various organizations. This happened during the divorce from Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, which was closely watched by millions of people around the world. Mackenzie posted a list of donations on social media and also stated that she had already changed her last name to Scott in honor of her grandfather. “Last year I promised to give back most of my fortune to the company, which helped me a lot in the cause of charity,” wrote Mackenzie Scott. She was referring to the signing of the 2019 Giving Pledge, which Mackenzie signed shortly after the divorce when she acquired a 4% stake in Amazon. The Giving Pledge initiative was founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, with the richest people in the world pledging to donate more than half of their assets to charity.
Conclusion
Scott said she watched the situation in the first half of 2020 with horror and provided up-to-date donation information to uncover the causes of the coronavirus pandemic.
