MacKenzie Scott sold 65 million Amazon shares worth over $10 billion in the last year
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MacKenzie Scott continues to sell billions of dollars in Amazon stock.
MacKenzie Scott continues to sell billions of dollars in Amazon stock. In 2023, she unloaded nearly 65.3 million shares of Amazon, currently worth more than $10 billion, according to a filing. After her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was finalized in 2019, Scott became the wealthiest woman in the world, receiving about 19.7 million shares, equal to 4% of Amazon’s total outstanding shares, in the settlement. She has since sold off portions of her Amazon stake, donating billions of dollars to charity. Bezos retained the voting rights to Scott’s shares as part of the agreement, which is why he reported them to the SEC when disclosing his 11.5% stake in the company. In 2019, Scott signed the Giving Pledge, a promise signed by hundreds of the world’s richest people to give away the majority of their wealth. The pledge has been signed by business titans like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. Bezos is not a signatory, though he told CNN in 2022 that he planned to devote the bulk of his wealth to fighting climate change and supporting people who can unify humanity.
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