{"id":20268,"date":"2025-07-03T20:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=20268"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:19:47","slug":"i-stood-by-him-for-25-years-through-nothing-through-everything-from-zero-in-the-garage-to-building-billions-i-carried-his-dreams-and-our-four-children-and-now-he-walks-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=20268","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI stood by him for 25 years\u2014through nothing, through everything. From zero in the garage to building billions. I carried his dreams and our four children. And now? He walks away\u2026 and marries that woman? After everything we built, everything we survived?\u201d MacKenzie Scott broke down in tears as news spread of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez\u2019s $150 million wedding. \u201cI don\u2019t recognize him anymore,\u201d she said quietly. \u201cI miss the man he used to be\u2014the man before the money, before the cameras, before her.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott were married for 25 years<\/p>\n

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MacKenzie Scott was married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for 25 years before their divorce in 2019.<\/p>\n

Scott and Bezos wed in 1993 after a whirlwind romance. Together, they welcomed four children whom they have continued to keep out of the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Since their divorce, the philanthropist, who is one of the richest women in the world, has made headlines for massive donations to hundreds of charities and has given away a total of $19 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy approach to philanthropy will continue to be thoughtful,\u201d she wrote in a letter after joining the Giving Pledge, a list of billionaires who\u2019ve pledged to donate half of their fortunes, in 2019. \u201cIt will take time and effort and care. But I won\u2019t wait. And I will keep at it until the safe is empty.\u201d<\/p>\n

After announcing their separation in 2019, Scott was\u00a0briefly married\u00a0to chemistry teacher\u00a0Dan Jewett\u00a0from 2021 to 2022. Meanwhile, Bezos has been engaged to former news anchor\u00a0Lauren S\u00e1nchez\u00a0since 2023, and\u00a0their wedding\u00a0will take place in June 2025.<\/p>\n

So, who is Jeff Bezos\u2019 ex-wife? Here\u2019s everything to know about MacKenzie Scott and her relationship with the Amazon founder.<\/p>\n

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MacKenzie Scott and Jeff Bezos. Stephen Lovekin\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Scott was raised in an affluent neighborhood in San Francisco.\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>reported that her father worked as a financial advisor and her mother stayed home to raise Scott and her two brothers.<\/p>\n

When she was 17, her father\u2019s firm declared bankruptcy, and she took on extra work to graduate from Hotchkiss, her Connecticut boarding school, a year early. Scott later worked as a waitress to pay her way through Princeton University, where she studied creative writing under the late\u00a0Toni Morrison.<\/p>\n

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Scott is a novelist<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Over the course of her career, Scott has published two books. Her debut novel,\u00a0The Testing of Luther Albright,<\/em>\u00a0took her a decade to complete and was published in 2005. Her second book,\u00a0Traps,<\/em>\u00a0was published in 2013.<\/p>\n

Scott revealed in the afterword of her first novel that she knew she wanted to be a writer when she was 6 years old. Prior to her death in 2019, Toni Morrison described Scott as an \u201cextraordinary writer, almost full-blown.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She was married to Bezos for 25 years<\/span><\/h2>\n
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MacKenzie Scott and Jeff Bezos. Kevork Djansezian\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

After college, Scott moved to New York City to pursue her dream of writing a novel, but found it hard to write while waitressing. So when she was invited to interview for a job at a financial firm, she agreed, not knowing that her future husband would be the one conducting it.<\/p>\n

Bezos hired Scott \u2014 based largely on a recommendation from Morrison, per\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 and they soon began a whirlwind romance. The couple dated for three months before getting engaged and were married in 1993.<\/p>\n

However, in 2019, they announced that they were divorcing after 25 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

Scott helped him launch Amazon\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott. Sara Jaye\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Shortly after they married, Bezos told Scott he wanted to quit his job and start his own digital bookselling company. She encouraged him to go for it, and they moved to Seattle to pursue his dream.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a businessperson, but to me what I am hearing when he tells that idea is the passion and the excitement,\u201d Scott said during a 2013 interview on\u00a0Charlie Rose<\/em>\u00a0of Bezos\u2019 initial plan. \u201cAnd to me, you know, watching your spouse, somebody that you\u00a0love have an adventure, what is better than that and being part\u00a0of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bezos ended up founding Amazon in the garage of their Washington home in 1994.<\/p>\n

She has four kids with Bezos<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott. Greg Doherty\/Patrick McMullan via Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Scott and Bezos\u00a0welcomed four kids\u00a0together during their marriage. The parents have kept many details about their children\u2019s lives private \u2014 including their names and the years they were born.<\/p>\n

However, Scott did tell\u00a0Vogue\u00a0<\/em>in 2013 that she put her writing on hold after their third child was born. She said, \u201cI knew I couldn\u2019t be the kind of parent I wanted to be and continue writing. Those years were just too busy.\u201d<\/p>\n

When they announced their divorce in 2019, Bezos and Scott made it clear that co-parenting their kids was the top priority. The Amazon billionaire wrote on X, \u201cThough the labels might be different, we remain a family, and we remain cherished friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott pledged to donate half of her wealth before she dies\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
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MacKenzie Scott. Dia Dipasupil\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

After the terms of her divorce from Bezos were made public, Scott announced in May 2019 that she had agreed to give away at least half of her wealth throughout her life, per\u00a0Forbes<\/em>. As part of her mission, Scott uses a \u201cno strings attached\u201d philosophy, which means she hands control over how the money she donates is spent to the nonprofit\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n

According to Yield Giving, the website she established to detail her donations, Scott has given over $19 billion to over 2,000 nonprofit organizations. In a 2021 blog post,\u00a0she wrote\u00a0how she never \u201cloved\u201d the word philanthropy as it\u2019s often associated with \u201cfinancially wealthy people who believed they knew best how to solve other people\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow much or how little money changes hands doesn\u2019t make it philanthropy,\u201d Scott penned. \u201cIntention and effort make it philanthropy.\u201d<\/p>\n

She remarried in 2021<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Two years after her divorce from Bezos was finalized, Scott married Jewett, a chemistry teacher at her children\u2019s school. When he later joined her on the Giving Pledge and promised to also donate half of his wealth over his lifetime, he described Scott as \u201cone of the most generous and kind people\u201d he knew.<\/p>\n

Scott and Jewett were married for just over a year before the philanthropist\u00a0filed for divorce\u00a0in September 2022. It was finalized four months later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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