Mackenzie Scott She was, for a time, the richest woman in the world. But in a few months, it fell down the list, quickly. But it was she herself who made the decisions that caused that fall.
This year, his personal fortune went from $ 23.6 billion to $ 60.9 billion (from approximately 19,000 million euros to almost 50,000). The reason? Your divorce. And is that her ex-husband is the richest man in the world: the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.
In the divorce settlement, Scott received one-fourth of the shares that Bezos holds in the company he founded. How Amazon’s value has skyrocketed 72% this year, Her fortune has done it in a parallel way and this 50-year-old woman became the richest woman on planet Earth.
But she herself decided that most of that money was going to be donated. “Last year I made a commitment to return most of my wealth to society that has helped me generate it. I have no doubt that anyone’s personal wealth is the product of collective effort and of social structures that present opportunities for some people and obstacles for many others, “he said.
Since then he has not stopped donating to charitable causes. According to BBC, has already donated more than 6,000 million dollars, about 5,000 million euros.
For example, in July he donated 1.7 billion (almost 1.4 billion euros) 116 organizations, including colleges and universities with broad African American representation.
In the next four months, he donated $ 4.2 billion (about 3,400 million euros) to food banks and emergency aid funds to help people disadvantaged by the coronavirus.
But Mackenzie Scott will continue to donate: “I have a disproportionate amount of money to share”, he claimed.
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