Jeff Bezos with his ex-wife Mackenzie
last year, 50-year-old ex-wife of “the richest man in the world,” Jeff Bezos, Mackenzie, have pledged to donate at least half of his vast fortune she inherited after the divorce, to charity, and now she’s finally embarked on this purpose.
Yesterday, McKenzie said in his blog that he had committed nearly $ 1.7 billion in assistance to various organizations engaged in the fight against racial inequality, discrimination against members of the LGBT community, climate change, and support democracy, the economy and health care.
Like many people in the world, I watched in horror the events that occurred in the first half of 2020. However, the idea that each of us can do something to help this planet, gives me hope,
— Mackenzie explained his decision.
Jeff Bezos with his ex-wife Mackenzie
In his publication ex-wife of the Amazon founder also said that recently formally renounced the names Jeff, married with whom he lived for 25 years. Now as the name of Mackenzie uses his middle name, Scott, which she inherited from her grandfather.
Recall that in early 2019 Jeff and Mackenzie announced their divorce. After breaking up with his wife, in marriage with which the businessman has raised four children, he was generous to a lease and allocated Mackenzie 19.7 million shares of the company Amazon, which was initially estimated at 38.3 billion dollars. In may amid a pandemic of coronavirus, the company’s shares jumped sharply, causing the condition of McKenzie increased to 62.3 billion dollars. Thanks to spike, the ex-wife of Bezos even managed to briefly get the status of the richest women of the United States, but soon she had to give in this place the daughter of the founder of Walmart Alice Walton.
Even last year, Mackenzie Bezos became a member of the initiative “the giving pledge”, created in 2010 by bill gates and promised to engage in philanthropy until that very moment, while her “the safe is empty”. Jeff has supported the initiative of the former wife, but himself to join the action did not.
Recall that shortly after the announcement of the divorce in the press leaked information about the new novel 56-year-old Jeff with a 50-year-old actress and TV presenter Lauren Sanchez. It was rumored that relationship with her and became the main cause of divorce Bezos with his wife. The first time Jeff and Lauren tried not to advertise your novel, but immediately after a businessman settled all financial issues with the former spouse in court, they ceased to hide their feelings and are now actively appear in public together.
Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos
