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MacKenzie Scott
MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist, philanthropist, and early contributor to Amazon. She was married to Jeff Bezos, the co-founder of Amazon, from 1993 to 2019.
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business · American philanthropist and novelist (born 1970) · novelist · businessperson · philanthropist · also MacKenzie Scott, MacKenzie S. Bezos, Scott
Born 7 April 1970 · Q10322797
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prioritised organisations with local teams, leaders of color and a specific focus on empowering women and girls
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2026· 4 entries
“prioritised organisations with local teams, leaders of color and a specific focus on empowering women and girls”
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Yahoo: MacKenzie Scott New Novel: Billionaire Returns to Fiction
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Public attention spiked: 10,129 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 2,987, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Philanthropy
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2024· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk once said that Mackenzie Scott, novelist, philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, was "destroying Western civilization."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “As of March 2024, MacKenzie Scott had given away $16.5 billion and said she planned to "keep at it until the safe is empty."” True.
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2022· 2 entries
More gifts were announced, including $436 million to Habitat for Humanity and $275 million to Planned Parenthood
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Yield Giving reflects her philosophy of “adding value by giving up control,” prioritizing unrestricted donations to community-led organizations and underserved institutions
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2021· 2 entries
Scott married Lakeside School science teacher Dan Jewett
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Reported net worth: $59.4B (as of 2021).
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2020· 2 entries
One of the largest annual distributions by a private individual to working charities
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And one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes in 2021, 2023 and 2025
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2019· 2 entries
Career landmark: divorce.
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Their community property divorce in 2019 left Scott with $35.6 billion in Amazon stock, but her former husband retained 75% of the couple's Amazon stock.
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded American Book Awards (2006).
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Scott won an American Book Award for her 2005 debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright
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2005· 1 entry
Published her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, which won an American Book Award in 2006
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1992· 1 entry
Tuttle earned her bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University, where she studied under Nobel Laureate in Literature, Toni Morrison, who in 2013 described her as "one of the best students I've ever had in my cr
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1988· 1 entry
Graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut
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1970· 2 entries
In San Francisco, California, to Holiday Robin (née Cuming), a homemaker, and Jason Baker Tuttle, a financial planner
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Born 1970-04-07.
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