Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott files for divorce
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MacKenzie Scott will be giving away her vast fortune on her own — at least for now — as the billionaire philanthropist and her former science teacher husband, Dan Jewett, are splitting after 18 months of marriage.
As first reported by the New York Times, Scott filed her petition on Monday in King County, Washington, asking that their property be divided as spelled out in a separation contract. Its details were not disclosed.
Scott, 52, has given away more than $12 billion since her divorce from her husband of 25 years, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, in 2019. She and Jewett married in California in 2021, with the two announcing their nuptials on her page of the Giving Pledge, an organization that has the ultra-rich vowing to donate most of their wealth.
