MacKenzie Scott became one of the wealthiest people in the world after she walked away from her 2019 divorce with Jeff Bezos with Amazon shares worth a whopping $36 billion at the time. Just a little over a year later, the value of her 4% stake shot up to $68 billion, making her the world's richest woman and 12th-richest person in 2020. While she could have easily followed her ex-husband's lead and splurged her fortune on private jets, mansions, and superyachts, Scott instead wasted no time using her money to make the world a better place. By the summer of 2020, the novelist had given away over $1.6 billion to various nonprofits; as of February 2025, the total amount she'd donated had surpassed $19.25 billion. And Scott has no plans to stop her philanthropic efforts anytime soon, not on

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