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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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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, marries Seattle science teacher
MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has married a Seattle science teacher. Dan Jewett made the announcement in a letter to the website of the nonprofit organization the Giving Pledge.
Giving Billions Fast, MacKenzie Scott Upends Philanthropy
Through a streamlined operation, Ms. Scott has given away $6 billion this year, much of it to small charities and nonprofits.
MacKenzie Scott, formerly Bezos, says she has given away $1.7 billion of her wealth so far
MacKenzie Scott, formerly MacKenzie Bezos, has already donated nearly $1.7 billion of her fortune to a variety of organizations and causes after pledging last year to give most of it away during her lifetime.

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