Since MacKenzie Scott divorced billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2019, she’s greater than confirmed that she does not want a connection to him to make a huge impact. In truth, it might be argued that Scott, who was married to Bezos for 25 years, has been making a a lot greater splash post-split. Whereas her public profile will not be as giant as that of Bezos, who misplaced and regained his standing because the richest man on the planet, Scott is usually within the information for making a gift of a surprising share of her fortune, which she acquired in her divorce settlement from her ex-husband. As of December 2024, for instance, she’s parted with $19 billion of her preliminary $38 billion settlement, and it appears she has no plans of slowing down.

Nonetheless, positioning herself as probably the most charitable folks in historical past is not all Scott has been doing since she ditched Jeff. The mother-of-four has additionally spent a while cultivating romantic bonds. In 2021, she acquired married for the second time to Dan Jewett, a trainer on the faculty her youngsters with Bezos attended. Sadly, Scott’s second probability at romance did not pan out like she hoped, as she divorced a second time lower than two years into their marriage. Nonetheless, it was a fast course of that was finalized inside 4 months of Scott’s submitting in 2022, per Folks. As residents of Washington, additionally they opted to honor their separation contract, which, attributable to state legal guidelines, saved all the nitty-gritty of their asset division and different authorized entanglements away from the general public’s prying eyes. In contrast to Scott’s divorce settlement from Bezos, nobody is aware of how a lot Jewett walked away from the wedding with, although even a trivial share of Scott’s wealth might have set him up for all times. 

Past philanthropy and love, Scott has additionally spent a few of her time aggravating Elon Musk, which, in some circles, can be a notable use of 1’s time.

Consider it or not, MacKenzie Scott has obtained tons of criticism about pumping billions and billions of unrestricted {dollars} into the non-profit sector, and nobody has been extra outspoken than fellow billionaire Elon Musk. Beforehand, the Tesla CEO took to the self-owned X, previously generally known as Twitter, and accused Scott of ushering within the demise of Western civilization by the way in which she’s chosen to spend her cash. “Tremendous wealthy ex-wives who hate their former partner’ ought to filed be listed amongst ‘Causes that Western Civilization died,'” he wrote in a publish which he is since taken down (through Enterprise Insider). His gripe, in response to the outlet, was attributable to her funneling money into left-leaning organizations. He additionally believed that her charitable donations have been a petty plot to get on Bezos’ nerves — which, if there was any advantage to his case, she undoubtedly acquired a two-for-one deal.

Though it will have been good for Scott to reply on to Musk, she determined to take the excessive street and pay him absolute mud. Since then, she’s been targeted on attempting to place a dent in her fortune (although on the price at which it grows yearly, that could be unattainable). And although she not often does press interviews nowadays, she’s been updating inquiring minds on her countless charitable donations through Yield Giving. Her newest publish, as of write time, is dated December 2024. 

In a publish titled “Investing,” Scott introduced that, along with the lengthy listing of non-profit orgs she’d contributed to, she was beginning to allocate funds, by numerous investments, towards for-profit organizations that benefitted marginalized teams, together with folks of shade and ladies. “The gratitude I really feel to those non-profits, to those funds and corporations, and to the folks serving to me give these belongings away is analogous. I am impressed by all of the methods folks spend money on one another,” she wrote within the publish. Mainly, Musk’s criticism fell on deaf ears.