Billionaire MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, remarried

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott, who became one of the richest women in the world following her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has remarried, we noted in a note from the site GivingPledge.

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And now, by serendipity, I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know, and join her in her commitment to pass on tremendous financial wealth to help others,

" says New Husband. MacKenzie Scott, Dan Jewett, in that note dated Saturday.

Dan Jewett is a science teacher at Lakeside Private School in Seattle (northwestern United States), reports the Wall Street Journal, which first noted the information.

According to Forbes magazine, the school where Bill Gates studied, is where the children Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott had together attend.

Philanthropic associations

The initiative of the "

Giving Pledge

," or "

Donation Promise

" encourages wealthy of this world to more than half of their wealth to charity, and Ms. Scott has pledged to donate half of his wealth to philanthropic associations.

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MacKenzie Scott, who is also a novelist, revealed in December that she had donated more than $ 4 billion to 384 organizations in the previous four months, bringing her total donations made public to around $ 6 billion.

Much of Ms. Scott's fortune, 50, comes from the economic fallout from her divorce from Jeff Bezos, finalized in July 2019, which at the time allowed her to touch the equivalent of $ 38 billion. in Amazon shares.

Their value has increased significantly with the soaring of the title of the giant of online commerce on Wall Street.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Rankings, MacKenzie Scott's fortune stands at $ 53.5 billion, making her the 22nd richest person on the planet.