May be the richest woman of the world in 2020, but the title lasts only one day.
The decision to divide its fortune among various NGOs has taken months ahead of Mackenzie Scott’s number 18 in Bloomberg’s multibillionaire index.
And so his personal wealth passed from US $ 23,600 million to US $ 60,900 million in 2020, situated by a time period of time as the world’s most acute shortfall.
Scott is the executor of Jeff Bezos, el founder Amazon and now the richest man of the earth.
In the finals of 2019, you decide to put both ends in your matrimonial, Scott received in the divorce agreement a quarter of the shares that Bezos maintains in the company that founded.
Now it has been announced that Scott acaba to contradict matrimony with a professor of science from the private school to the one who assists his children.
The news of his meeting with Dan Jewett was announced on the Giving Pledge philanthropy page.
Jeff Bezos congratulated the couple on a communication and said they were “happy” for both.
Millionaire donations
One month ago, Scott -cuya fortune following the Forbes review round now the US $ 53,000 million- was confirmed in its decision of donar su dinero hasta su su “caja fuerte esté vacía”.
“Geen tengo dudas de que la personal rich de qualquiera es product of a collective effort and social structures that present opportunities for some people and obstacles for many others, “he said, referring to the Giving Pledge initiative this year.
Impulsed by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates and follows more than 200 global fortunes, the Giving Pledge initiative encourages the richest people in the world to dedicate the mayor to his wealth and causes.
Last July, Scott announced that she had donated one US $ 1,700 million per 116 organizations which includes four colleges and historically black universities.
Y in the last months of 2020 repartió unos US $ 4,200 million between food banks and emergence aid funds that address the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
“This pandemic is like a ball of demolition in the wake of the abortions that it was going through,” he wrote in a blog post a month ago.
For this reason, he explained that he had chosen more than 380 charitable organizations to those who donate part of their wealth.
A team of assessors will help evaluate the projects of 6,500 organizations.
“I have one amount of money disproportionate to share “, Scott wrote to summarize the Giving Pledge initiative.
In addition to Scott, other signatories include the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife Priscilla Chan; Elon Musk and the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, and his wife Pam.
* This article was originally published in Boetes van 2020 and was updated with the notice of Mackenzie Scott’s body.
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