Mackenzie Scott is now the richest woman in the world, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index and the 12th wealthiest person, behind well-known te
Mackenzie Scott is now the richest woman in the world, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index and the 12th wealthiest person, behind well-known tech moguls including Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
Scott, who divorced Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos in 2019, currently has a net worth of $68 billion. She gained millions of shares of Amazon worth an estimated $38 billion as part of her divorce settlement from Bezos.
MacKenzie Scott, a philanthropist, has now surpassed Franoise Bettencourt Meyers, an heiress to L’Oreal who controls 33% of the world’s largest cosmetics maker and counts a net worth of $66.8 billion,
In a July, Scott said she donated $1.7 billion of her wealth in the past year to several different causes including racial equality, LGBTQ rights, public health, and climate change. Business Insider previously reported that by the end of that same week, Scott had earned that money back after the value of her Amazon stake grew.
In 2019, Scott also signed onto the Giving Pledge initiative which encourages the richest people in the world to donate a majority of their wealth to charity.
The 16 richest Americans in the list are collectively worth more than $1 trillion. While tech heavyweights populate the top ranks of the lists, they appear alongside other familiar figures like members of the powerful Koch and Walton families.
