In just four months, MacKenzie Scott spent $ 4.2 billion.
The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos seems to want to get rid of her money as soon as possible.
Washington - According to several rankings, Jeff Bezos is considered the richest man in the world.
The steadily increasing fortune of the Amazon founder is currently estimated at 185 billion dollars - after the divorce in 2019, four percent of the Amazon shares and a not insignificant part went to his current
ex-wife
MacKenzie Scott, who had already announced half wanting to donate.
With an estimated
fortune
of currently 60.1 billion dollars (about 49.3 billion euros),
MacKenzie Scott is
one of the 20 richest people on earth
according to the US news agency
Bloomberg
- in 2020 she was even able to be
dubbed
the
richest woman in the world
.
The
American is
currently
spending her money
at an unprecedented rate.
Or rather, she's giving it away.
4.2 billion euros: Ex-wife of Jeff Bezos is giving away a fortune in 2020
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After the divorce, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife received a significant portion of his fortune - and four percent of Amazon's shares.
© dpa / Jörg Carstensen
Even
Jeff Bezos
showed up this year already generous and announced a Giga-donation for the fight against climate change.
However, his
ex-wife
is no less generous.
In the past four months alone, a whopping 4.2 billion dollars (about 3.4 billion euros) went from
MacKenzie Scott's
account to a total of 384 non-profit organizations in all 50 US states.
She
informed the public
about her
charitable commitment
in a blog entry and announced that these would probably not be her last
donations
.
"I am still far from
keeping
my promise," writes
MacKenzie Scott
in the statement, allegedly referring to her involvement in the initiative "The Giving Pledge", to which she has been committed since 2019.
This is a
campaign organized
by
Bill Gates
and Warren Buffett, whose super-rich supporters pledge
to spend
at least half of their
wealth
on
charitable causes
.
MacKenzie Scott
and her advisors were extremely meticulous in their selection and carried out extensive analyzes
so that their donations also find the right addressee
.
According to
MacKenzie Scott's
blog entry,
6,490 potential beneficiaries of the
donations
were available
at the beginning of the data collection - these were, for example, human rights organizations or companies that enable food to be served.
Only 822 of them even made it to the next round, which means that they were put under the microscope by the currently second richest woman in the world and her team.
MacKenzie Scott Uses Amazon Wealth To Help Poor People In The Pandemic
MacKenzie Scott gives away $ 4.2 billion in historic charity binge https://t.co/iWWFNPSOaW
- Los Angeles Times (@latimes) December 16, 2020
MacKenzie Scott
justifies her commitment
to the
effects of
the global spread of the
coronavirus,
among other things
.
"For Americans who had problems before, this
pandemic was like
a wrecking ball in their lives," explains the
billionaire
.
"Economic losses and health consequences were equally worse for women, people of color and people living in poverty."
Another effect of
corona crisis
talks
MacKenzie Scott
also in this context.
Because: In contrast to the previously poor, many rich
even benefited
from the
pandemic
.
"It has now increased the wealth of billionaires significantly," said
Jeff Bezos
'
ex-wife
, who herself is one of those profiteers.
Her
net worth
grew by $ 23.6 billion this year alone,
according to
Bloomberg
.
The main source of this wealth is likely to be the income from their company shares on
Amazon
.
In selecting the
organizations
that would
benefit
from the
donations
, the team of advisors therefore “paid particular attention to those who operate in communities with high levels of food insecurity, high levels of racial inequality, high local poverty rates and low access to philanthropic capital are, ”writes
MacKenzie Scott
in her blog post.
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