MacKenzie Scott's "Journey of Good" began with "divorce." The Amazon founder marries a science teacher, and they pledge to continue donating to charities .. Bloomberg: Her wealth is estimated at $ 53.5 billion, and her donations have broken the 6 billion mark.
An exceptional divorce that ended with an astronomical settlement .. With this separation, MacKenzie Scott, the famous billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, began a journey that has not been interrupted by charitable work. Divorce settlement in 2019, $ 68 billion, of which she has donated more than $ 6 billion so far.
It seems that the love of philanthropy led "MacKenzie" to a new marriage, as she married a science teacher in the American city of Seattle called Dan Jewitt, in a move welcomed by his ex-wife Jeff Bezos, saying: "Dan is a wonderful man, and I feel happy and excited for both of them."
According to a report published by the American Bloomberg Network, on Monday, the new husband announced that he plans with "MacKenzie" to help donate most of their wealth to charitable work.
Dan Jewitt, a private school teacher, referenced the marriage on Giving Pledge, a movement created by Bill, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage billionaires to do charitable work.
“In a happy coincidence, I am married to one of the most generous people I know, and I share a commitment to transfer an enormous financial fortune to the service of others,” Jewett said in a March 6 post on Scott’s page.
Jewitt added that he had been a teacher for most of his life, and had never sought to amass any kind of wealth required for charitable pledges.
McKinsey is 50 years old and ranks number 22 in the list of the world's richest people with a net worth estimated at $ 53.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and since her separation from Jeff Bezos in 2019, she has become one of the most important charitable figures of her generation. About $ 6 billion last year, mostly to charities and small enterprises, such as black colleges, that do not necessarily benefit from the generosity of billionaires.
McKinsey said last year that she asked her team to explore faster ways to provide money.
Months ago, MacKenzie Scott donated more than $ 4 billion to hundreds of charities and aid organizations, including food banks fighting the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Guardian newspaper, where Scott pledged to give away much of her fortune after settling her divorce with Bezos last year. .
And in July 2020, McKinsey said it had donated $ 1.7 billion to 116 charities.
"This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans who are already struggling," she wrote in a blog titled 384 Ways to Help. The economic losses and health outcomes alike were worse for women, people of color and people living in poverty, while the wealth of billionaires increased dramatically.
Less than a month ago, McKinsey, billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, returned to the top of the world's richest list, ahead of Elon Musk, president of SpaceX and Tesla, who had occupied the first place for more than a month according to Sputnik.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and according to the latest figures released by the agency in mid-February, Bezos is worth $ 191 billion, while Musk's fortune is $ 190 billion.
