MacKenzie Scott donates US$2.7bil, blasts wealth gap

Scott, who ended up with a 4% stake in Amazon.com Inc following her divorce, is worth almost US$60bil (RM246.90bil). That’s even after her rapid giving that’s already made her one of the most consequential philanthropists in the world. — dpa/AFP

MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife, has given US$2.7bil (RM11.11bil) to a variety of charities, she wrote in a blog post Tuesday, bringing her total donations since her first giving spree in July 2020 to US$8.5bil (RM34.97bil).

Scott, 51, shook up the philanthropy world last year with the pace and magnitude of her giving. This time she gave to 286 organisations from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre to racial equity funds in philanthropy and journalism. This is her first time announcing donations since she remarried to Dan Jewett, a Seattle science teacher.