Mackenzie
Scott, ex-wife of Amazon.com Inc's billionaire Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, has
donated $1.7 billion of her wealth in the previous 12 months to motives along
with racial equality, LGBTQ rights, public fitness and local weather change,
she stated in a weblog submit on Tuesday.
Scott, who
used to be earlier recognized’ as Mackenzie Bezos, additionally announced her
new remaining name, which she stated used to be taken from her center name.
Last year,
Scott signed the Giving Pledge in a dedication to donate the majority of her
fortune after her cut up from Bezos - the world's richest man - left her with a
4% stake in Amazon.
"Like
many, I watched the first half of 2020 with a combination of heartbreak and
horror," she wrote in a, submit’ on Medium.
"I
commenced work to entire my pledge with the faith that my lifestyles had
yielded two property that may want to be of specific fee to others: the cash
these structures helped supply to me, and a conviction that human beings who
have ride with inequities are the ones nice outfitted to diagram
solutions," she added.
At the time
of the divorce, her stake was once really worth about $36 billion. Her fortune
has grown to over $60 billion with a soar in Amazon's shares this year.
Scott made
her announcement a day earlier than Jeff Bezos will show up for his first-ever
Congressional testimony in the front of an antitrust panel, which has been
investigating how Amazon has used its market energy to damage smaller rivals.
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