page_title: MacKenzie Scott
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: MacKenzie Scott / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: WASHINGTON - Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services León Rodríguez naturalize 20 new U.S. Citizens in a Naturalization Ceremony held at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2016. During the ceremony, Army Spc. Jae Seon Shim led the Pledge of Allegiance, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com was awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial medal. Official DHS photo by Barry Bahler.
context_page_description: MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist, billionaire, venture philanthropist, and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos. She has served as the executive director of Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization she founded, since 2014.
  Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Scott graduated from Princeton University in 1992 where she studied under writer Toni Morrison. After graduating, she worked for D. E. Shaw, a quantitative hedge fund in New York, as an administrative assistant from 1992 to 1994. Scott wrote her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, eleven years later in 2005 for which she won an American Book Award in 2006.
  Scott was married to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, from 1993 to 2019. Their divorce made her the third-wealthiest woman in the world and one of the wealthiest people overall by April 2019. In June 2020, it was revealed by Forbes magazine that she is the 22nd richest person in the world, largely due to her $38 billion divorce settlement. A month later, she signed the Giving Pledge, committing to give at least half of her wealth to charity.
context_section_description: MacKenzie was married to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, from 1993 to 2019. She met him while working as his assistant at D. E. Shaw in 1992; after three months of dating in New York they married and moved to Seattle, Washington in 1994. They have four children: three sons and one daughter adopted from China. Their communal property divorce in 2019 left MacKenzie with US$35.6 billion in Amazon stock while her ex-husband retained 75% of the couple's Amazon stock. She became the third-wealthiest woman in the world and one of the wealthiest people overall in April 2019. MacKenzie kept her last name instead of reverting to her maiden name, Tuttle, but later began going by the name MacKenzie Scott, with the surname derived from her middle name.
caption: MacKenzie Scott (fifth from left) at the 2016 naturalization ceremony for her daughter.
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