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4.2 billion in four months: Jeff Bezos' ex-wife is giving away her fortune as soon as possible

2020-12-16T16:34:59.163Z


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.


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.

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Jörg Carstensen

Source: merkur

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