The donations largely went to social-justice, public-health and climate-change organizations, Scott, a novelist and philanthropist, wrote in a Medium blog post.
Scott — who recently changed her last name back to the name she grew up with — ranks 13th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated fortune of $59.3 billion. The bulk of that came from a 4% stake in Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -1.78% that she received in her divorce from Bezos. “Last year I pledged to give the majority of my wealth back to the society that helped generate it,” Scott wrote, referring to her 2019 signing of the Giving Pledge, the campaign organized by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet in 2010, in which the world’s wealthiest people vow to donate more than half their fortune to charities or philanthropic causes over their lifetime.“Like many, I watched the first half of 2020 with a mixture of heartbreak and horror,” she said.
“The organizations ... offer a daily reminder that we can each carry more than we imagine. And they offer an opportunity to invest our good fortune in change, no matter what form our good fortune has taken.” Her ex-husband Bezos — the world’s wealthiest individual, worth about $178 billion — has not signed the Giving Pledge, and has been criticized by some for not donating more to charities.
Pharisee.
Her fortune 😂
Is she on a singles dating site? I need this kind of sugar mama.
Easy come, easy go!
Is she taller than him?
But Democrats would have been happier if she gave some of that to their party and balance in taxes.
I suppose when you’re that wealthy you can afford to waste that amount of money. The one thing we must remember she’ll use it as a tax write off so we all actually paid A portion of it.
At least she didn't donate to BLM, thank god
Marxism is so hot these days
So virtuous! The devil will have a field day with her.
America is lucky mackenziebezos realizes that not only hard work but loyal customers rich & poor contributed to her extreme wealth & she is using it for the betterment of social causes that appeal to desire to improve the lives of disadvantaged classes of people in the world 🙏🏻
All the hater comments on here... straight jealousy
Can’t throw money at these kind of problems. It hasn’t worked with the war on drugs or the war on poverty. You must change attitudes!! And that will take the generation at least.
So stupid, there is starving children, cancer patients that can’t pay for medication and she donates to that bull shit.
A QUEEN!!
Asking for help the last couple weeks my sister & I have been struggling to get by I lost my jobs as a janitor and filed for unemployment im waitin to get the benefits but until then were asking if anyone is willing to donate $1 It would help a ton Venmo or Cashapp MattMartins147
$1.7 billion out of $59 billion...small drop.
She may as well have set it on fire
$1.7 billion to loot stores, smash windows and virtue signal?
Good on MacKenzieScott
It's easy when you didn't earn it.
Coulda just bought $Tron if you wanted to throw it away
Yeah she's hot. Bangable
Great Scott!
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