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MacKenzie Scott
Novelist, Philanthropist & Anti-Bullying Advocate; Author of "The Testing of Luther Albright"
MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist and philanthropist. She is the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married from 1993 until their divorce in 2019; where they were at one point the richest couple in the world. In 2014, she founded the anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution, where she serves as executive director.
Following Scott's divorce from Bezos, Scott received a $35 billion divorce settlement, making her the third richest woman in the world. In May 2019, MacKenzie Bezos signed on the Giving Pledge initiative to donate at least half of her wealth to charitable causes and has yielded over $16,500,000,000 to 1,900+ non-profit teams. Scott shares the details of her donations on a website called Yield Giving. Notably, Scott utilizes a "no strings attached" style of giving, wherein the nonprofits that receive her donations have full control over how to best deploy the new funds.
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