Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife Mackenzie Scott donates $1.7BILLION to charity since splitting from the Amazon billionaire

THE ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, has donated $1.7 billion of her wealth since her split with the Amazon CEO.

Scott, who divorced Bezos in 2019, has a net worth of more than $60 billion, but has given away money to a number of causes including climate change, racial inequality and public health.

, Scott wrote that she had pledged to give the majority of her wealth “back to the society that helped generate it”.

“Like many, I watched the first half of 2020 with a mixture of heartbreak and horror,” she continued.

Scott said she had recruited a team of non-profit advisors to help her find and assess organizations that were having “major impact” on a variety of causes.

“Though this work is ongoing and will last for years,” she continued, “I’m posting an update today because my own reflection after recent events revealed a dividend of privilege I’d been overlooking: the attention I can call to organizations and leaders driving change.”

Scott then listed the total amount she had given to date, which included more than $500m to racial equity causes, $46m to LGBTQ+ equity causes and $133m to gender equity causes.

“On this list, 91% of the racial equity organizations are run by leaders of color, 100% of the LGBTQ+ equity organizations are run by LGBTQ+ leaders, and 83% of the gender equity organizations are run by women, bringing lived experience to solutions for imbalanced social systems,” she wrote.

that a surge in Amazon purchases during the coronavirus pandemic had boosted the net worth of CEO Jeff Bezos by $13billion in one day, making the world’s richest man even richer.

On Monday, , 56, enjoyed the biggest single-day increase in net worth of anyone in history on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.

He is worth $189.3billion now, and more valuable than huge corporations including Nike, McDonald’s and Exxon Mobile, according to .

Due to her divorce settlement Mackenzie, who got 4 per cent of the company’s stock, is now worth $56.9bn, making her the second wealthiest woman in the world, behind L’Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers.
hundreds of immigrant workers have slept outside Jeff Bezos’ new $100m penthouse in New York after demanding that he pays more tax.

The stunt outside the world’s richest man’s Manhattan’s penthouse was in support of a tax on billionaires to help raise money to help people hit hardest by the pandemic.
The protesters said the work of immigrants generates more than $1 billion in the U.S economy – but many of those were unable to receive benefits because of their citizenship status.

The suggested tax on millionaires has been backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Gerry Vital, an immigrant from Mexico, who was working as a tour guide told ABC7: “I sold my car to pay for the last four months of the rent and I started selling tacos in the street.”

Gerry and his wife said they were so desperate that they joined queues for food packages after not getting help from the government.