MacKenzie Scott

マッケンジー・ベゾス　/　まっけんじー・べぞす

American novelist

April 7, 1970 (age 56)　・　San Francisco, California, United States

California
novelist
businessperson
philanthropist

My Take

I find MacKenzie Scott genuinely fascinating because she refuses to be defined by who she was married to. Long before the Amazon billions, she studied under Toni Morrison at Princeton, quietly wrote literary fiction, and won the American Book Award in 2006 for "The Testing of Luther Albright" — a novel about a father's unraveling told with real psychological depth. Then after her 2019 divorce she did something almost no billionaire does: she just started giving, fast and without strings, donating tens of billions to thousands of overlooked nonprofits and letting them spend it however they saw fit. No naming rights, no press events, no foundation bureaucracy. It's a genuinely different philosophy of wealth, and I respect it a lot.

Overview

MacKenzie Scott (née Tuttle, formerly Bezos; born April 7, 1970) is an American novelist, philanthropist, and early contributor to Amazon. She was married to Jeff Bezos, the co-founder of Amazon, from 1993 to 2019. As of December 2025, she had a net worth of US$40.0 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, owning a 1.3 percent stake in Amazon.

1. Profile

Name (English): MacKenzie Scott
Name (Japanese): マッケンジー・ベゾス
Reading: まっけんじー・べぞす
Born: April 7, 1970 (age 56)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Dog
Origin: San Francisco, California, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: novelist / businessperson / philanthropist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Princeton University

Awards & achievements

2006 American Book Awards

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	The Testing of Luther Albright	—