MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, donated $19 billion after finalizing her divorce from the Amazon CEO.
The couple, who announced their separation in 2019, had been married since 1993. During the divorce, Scott received approximately 25 percent of the shares jointly owned by her and Bezos in Amazon.
These shares were worth around $35.6 billion at the time. Since then, she has donated more than $19 billion of this amount to support over 2,000 organizations, according to the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP).
According to the center, her goal in donating the money to philanthropic causes was “to support the needs of underrepresented people from all kinds of groups.”
“Scott’s very large and unrestricted donations — with little or no restrictions on how or when they must be spent — have transformed recipient organizations and impacted many of the communities these organizations serve,” the CEP stated in its report.
“I don’t need to ask those I care about what to say to them or what to do for them. I can share what I have to support them as they speak and act for themselves,” Scott said.
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