Amy Siskind
Bless this woman: a billionaire doing some good with her money, rather than a middle school-like competition over who is the biggest.
MacKenzie Scott donates $640 million, more than doubling her planned gifts to nonprofit applicants
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@Jezibaba Agreed, and it's just that much sweeter because her schmuck ex, Bezos, donates so little.
As of December 2022, Scott was the fifth richest woman in the U.S. with an estimated fortune of about $26 billion. Scott divorced Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos in 2019, and as part of the settlement, received a 4% stake in Amazon. That same year, she vowed to give away her "disproportionate amount of money" and to "keep at it until the safe is empty."