Mackenzie Scott Divorce: After 3 Years of Bezos Split!

By Rahul Rajput On Sep 29, 2022

American author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott are best known as the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos. Scott is the 21st richest person in the world and the third richest woman in the United States. Forbes named Scott one of the most powerful women in the world in 2022, and Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020.

Early Life

MacKenzie Scott Tuttle was born in April 1970 in San Francisco, CA. She grew up in Marin County, which is across the Golden Gate Bridge. Her family also had a house in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Her father, Jason Baker Tuttle, ran a business that helped people invest their money.

MacKenzie went to High School at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT. After her father was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission during her junior year, her parents filed for bankruptcy. Her parents moved to Florida, where her father tried and failed to start a new job that would bring in more money. In the end, her father couldn’t start a new financial company. The Florida judge said no because the family had spent a lot of money in the past.

Net Worth

MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist, philanthropist, and activist who used to go by the name MacKenzie Bezos. At the time this article was written, According to Celebritynetworth, MacKenzie Scott was worth $32 billion.

Her wealth would be much bigger, but she gave away $6 billion to charity in 2020 alone. She wants to give away most of her money while she is still alive. As of this writing, she has already given more than $12 billion to hundreds of charities around the world. There will be more about her giving later in this article.

Career

Dan has worked at the Lakeside School, which is one of the best private high schools in the Washington area, since 2016. Bill Gates is one of the most well-known people who went to this school. Maria Fitel, who was the first president of the Nike Foundation, is another. It is said that Dan knew Mackenzie Scott here since her kids went to this high school.

Dan was a teacher at the Bush School for about 5 years before he started working at the Lakeside School. Dan has spent most of his career as a teacher, but he started out working in the observatory department at Eastern University. Dan also taught AP chemistry at Harrington High School in Pennsylvania for about a year in 2006.

Personal Life

Dan Jewett married Mackenzie Scott two years after she got a divorce from her first husband, Jeff Bezos. This divorce got a lot of attention in the news, especially because it involved a huge amount of money.

With a net worth of $53 billion, Mackenzie Scott would be one of the richest people in the world after the divorce. Dan lives with Mackenzie and her four kids in Seattle, where they all have a house. It’s not clear if Dan has ever been married or if he has kids of his own.

After less than two years of marriage, Mackenzie, Dan’s wife, has now asked for a divorce.

Divorce

MacKenzie Scott is one of the wealthiest women in the United States. She is getting a divorce from her second husband, Dan Jewett, who used to teach science at the school where her children went.

The news was first reported by The New York Times, which said that Scott filed for divorce in King County, Washington, on Monday. Last year, they got married.

The Times reported earlier in the day that Scott had taken Jewett’s name off of a number of online sites, such as her Giving Pledge biography and a Medium post about her charitable work. She was also mentioned without Jewett’s name in two major gift announcements. Jewett’s name usually went with hers.

The Times said that Jewett “did not fight the divorce,” and that the terms of their separation will be set by a private separation contract that is already in place.

A copy of the petition said that the contract spells out how the properties will be split, as well as any possible debts and court fees. The filing also said that spousal support “is not needed” and that Scott did not ask for a restraining order.

Forbes says that Scott is worth $34.9 billion, which makes her the fourth richest woman in the country. Almost all of that money comes from her share in Amazon, which was started by Jeff Bezos and which she helped get off the ground. She met Bezos at the hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and they were married for 25 years before getting a very public divorce in 2019.

Since then, Scott has become one of the most generous people in history. In a Giving Pledge letter that used to include Jewett’s name, she promised to give away her assets “until the safe is empty.” So far, these gifts have added up to more than $12 billion.

Jewett also put out his own Giving Pledge letter, in which he raved about Scott, but it has since been taken down from the site. “It seems strange to be writing a letter saying I plan to give away most of my money while I’m alive since I’ve never tried to get rich enough to feel like saying something like that would mean something,” he wrote at the time.

“By a happy stroke of luck,” he said next, “I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know, and together we have made a promise to use our huge wealth to help others.”

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Scott has been very private in recent years. She didn’t say anything on her social media accounts on Wednesday, and when the Times asked her lawyer for a comment, he didn’t give one.

Summary

MacKenzie Scott used to go by the name MacKenzie Bezos. She is an American novelist, philanthropist, and activist. As of this writing, she was worth $32 billion. She has already given more than $12 billion to hundreds of charities around the world. With a net worth of $53 billion, Mackenzie Scott would be one of the richest people in the world after the divorce.

Dan lives with Mackenzie and her four kids in Seattle, where they all have a house. It’s not clear if Dan has ever been married or if he has kids of his own. She is worth $34.9 billion, Forbes says.