MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has seen her fortune shrink by $3.69 billion so far in 2025. The decline comes as Amazon’s stock price has fallen more than 12% since the start of the year, reflecting broader volatility in the tech sector.
Scott, 55, remains one of Amazon’s largest individual shareholders, holding a 1.3% stake in the company. As of May 10, Amazon shares were trading at $193.06, down 12.33% from January. According to Bloomberg, Scott’s net worth now stands at $36.5 billion-a 9.2% drop since the beginning of the year.
Much of Scott’s wealth is tied to her Amazon holdings, which she received as part of her 2019 divorce settlement with Bezos. At that time, she was granted 25% of the couple’s jointly held Amazon shares, but relinquished her interests in The Washington Post and aerospace company Blue Origin, and gave Bezos voting control over her Amazon shares.
A Princeton graduate and published novelist, Scott was one of Amazon’s earliest employees, playing a key role in the company’s formative years. In recent years, she has become known for her rapid and large-scale philanthropic giving. Since 2020, Scott has donated more than $14 billion to educational institutions, social justice groups, and community nonprofits across the United States-often with little fanfare and minimal bureaucracy.
Many of these charitable gifts are now listed as liabilities against her net worth, reflecting the significant impact of her philanthropy on her overall fortune. Scott’s other assets, including cash reserves and private holdings from her divorce settlement, remain less transparent.
Despite the recent decline in her wealth, MacKenzie Scott remains one of the world’s richest women. She continues her philanthropic work through a limited liability company known as Lost Horse. Scott previously remarried Dan Jewett, a Seattle science teacher, and the couple jointly signed the Giving Pledge in 2021, though reports in 2023 indicated they had separated.
