Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is set to marry American author Lauren Wendy Sanchez in what is already being called the “wedding of the century.” The grand celebration is scheduled for the summer of 2025 in the enchanting city of Venice, Italy. The couple is reportedly planning to get married on the biggest masthead yacht ever…
Scott was married to Bezoz for 25 years. As part of their 2019 divorce, she received a 4 per cent stake in Amazon. Mackenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, continues to donate her wealth to various nonprofit organisations. Since 2019, the billionaire has reportedly donated over USD 19 billion of her…
Mackenzie Scott (Photo Credits: X / Twitter) MacKenzie Scott has donated more than $19 billion in unrestricted contributions to over 2,000 organizations over the last five years as she works to pay down the billions she earned as part of her divorce settlement from Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. The Center for Effective Philanthropy…
Marie Dageville and her husband Benoit Dageville became billionaires overnight when his data cloud company, Snowflake, went public in September 2020. After that life changing moment, Marie, a former hospice nurse, then set out to learn how to urgently give away that new fortune. “We need to redistribute what we have that is too much,”…
While Jeff Bezos Rides The Stock Market Boom, MacKenzie Scott Has Just Sold $8 Billion In Amazon Shares To Fund Charities Nationwide While Jeff Bezos is enjoying the recent rise in the stock market, his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, is making news for her generosity. She recently sold another $8 billion worth of Amazon shares and…
This is a published version of the Forbes Daily newsletter, you can sign-up to get Forbes Daily in your inbox here. Good morning, Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott offloaded more Amazon shares, a new filing shows, as she remains one of the nation’s most prolific donors. Scott received about 400 million shares of Amazon as part…
They might tackle problems that governments won’t touch, but it’s an open question whether any individual should command such vast wealth and influence. It’s also debatable whether they’re donating money in the most effective way; MacKenzie Scott, Bezos’ ex-wife, has demonstrated a different approach with her aggressive yet hands-off style of giving. Hans Peter Schmitz,…