In her attempt to be the last sent to the guillotine by the mob, MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has been quick to shed billions from her record-setting divorce settlement. Scott, whose divorce rendered her the third wealthiest woman on the planet, announced another slew of donations on Tuesday totaling $2.7 billion to 286 different recipients, citing the much-maligned wealth gap.
“Me, Dan, a constellation of researchers and administrators and advisors — we are all attempting to give away a fortune that was enabled by systems in need of change,” Scott wrote in her Medium post announcing the new set of donations. “In this effort, we are governed by a humbling belief that it would be better if disproportionate wealth were not concentrated in a small number of hands, and that the solutions are best designed and implemented by others.”
