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McKinsey Scott was named the richest woman in the world just days after her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos, became the world’s first man with a fortune of more than $ 200 billion, according to the New York Post.
Since early 2020, Scott has added a staggering $ 30.3 billion to his net worth, thanks to Amazon’s inventory growth, as consumers have turned to the e-commerce giant for their needs in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak.
Scott’s fortune was $ 67.4 billion, beating out L’Oréal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Myers, who currently has $ 66.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Scott is currently ranked 12th on the list of the world’s richest person, putting him ahead of the Walton brothers of Walmart owners and behind Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
Scott obtained 20 million shares in Amazon after his divorce from Bezos after revealing their affair, the value of these shares amounted to around $ 30 billion, bringing the combined wealth of the world’s richest former couple to more. of $ 270 billion.
Scott has already donated $ 1.7 billion to organizations concerned about racial equality, gay rights, gender equality, fighting climate change, improving public health and more.
Most of it went to racial equality organizations, which received about $ 586,000. And she wrote in her statement that she was “shocked” by what happened during the current year of “inequality in our systems.”
And he, the richest couple in the world, announced their divorce in January last year and then reached an agreement before their divorce, which includes obtaining full voting rights for Bezos in his participation in the company, while she obtained a stake in Amazon, valued at about $ 36 billion.
