Jeff Bezos’s Wife Net Worth

Famous American novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott who was the wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos until 2019, has a net worth of $36.9 billion (approx.), according to Forbes. She along with her husband Bezos played a significant role in the founding of Amazon. As the dissolving of their divorce, Jeff had to pay her the alimony of 25 percent of the stake that he holds in Amazon valued at $38 billion.

Divorce and Net Worth

Jeff Bezos owned a 16 percent stake in Amazon which was valued as a $1.6 trillion company back in 2019 during his divorce from his wife Scott. So, eventually, Scott received approximately 4 percent holding in Amazon which was valued at $38.3 billion in 2019. It helped her become the world’s third most powerful and richest woman according to Bloomberg and Forbes Billionaires Index. She also got the rank of 22nd richest person in the world at the age of 49. She received 19.7 million shares of Amazon for the 4 percent stake. After Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, it is the world’s second-biggest divorce that has ever happened now!

In September 2020, MacKenzie Scott was one of the world’s richest women, and by December 2020, her net worth was estimated at $62 billion when the Amazon stock was at its peak. Now as per the current date in 2022, markets are down right now and so Amazon stocks are valued lower. Forbes currently mentions her net worth as $36.9 billion.

While her husband Jeff Bezos retained the rest 75% holdings of the Amazon stock that he owned, valued at $114 billion in 2019, he was the richest person in the world at age 55.

Philanthropy

While dissolving her marriage, Scott signed a Giving Pledge in 2019, in which she promised that she would donate more than half of her net worth to philanthropy and non-profit organizations in order to help poor, homeless, and underprivileged people. She is said to be a believer in philanthropy and helping other people and for this reason, she often donates to NGOs.

Till now she has donated to various organizations that focus on racial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, democracy, and climate change. She has donated $12 billion from her net worth to over 1250 non-profit organizations within 3 years after the divorce. She donated the largest donation till now to reproductive health care non-profit Planned Parenthood with $275 million.

Writing Work

Scott wrote her debut novel in 2005 titled ‘The Testing of Luther Albright’ and won American Book Award in 2006. By now her writing work includes Traps (2013), 116 Organizations Driving Change (2020), 384 Ways to Help (2020), and Seeding by Ceding (2021).