Jeff Bezos’ former wife MacKenzie Scott has become the world’s richest woman after Amazon shares surged amid coronavirus lockdown.

The boost comes after Amazon stocks skyrocketed off the back of the pandemic, as stay-at-home orders and closed businesses made consumers rely more on the retail giant for online orders and home deliveries.

The rise in the e-commerce giant’s stock—which has spiked from $2,000 to $3,500 per share since the beginning of 2020— has propelled Scott up the billionaires’ list.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the philanthropist and writer is now the 12th richest person and the No. 1 wealthiest woman in the world, sitting ahead of L’Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, who previously held the position.

After her 2019 divorce, Scott became the fourth-richest woman in the world, behind Bettencourt Meyers, Alice Walton of the Walmart family, and Jacqueline Badger Mars of the Mars candy empire.

Those women’s net worths have remained relatively steady, less affected by the recent surge in tech stocks.

Scott’s net worth is currently pegged at $67.4 billion. In 2019, her fortune was estimated at $36 billion based on Amazon’s share price at the time.

Scott’s new-found position at the top spot came after receiving huge divorce settlement from Amazon founder Bezos last July.

The former spouses reached a settlement, granting Scott around 19.7 million Amazon.com shares, giving her a four percent stake in the company.

Since her divorce, Scott has emerged as a prominent philanthropist. That month, she revealed details of some of her charitable commitments, totaling $1.7 billion given over the previous year.

This is a notable decision because, in contrast to many couples who make the pledge together, Scott did so independently of her former husband, who has not made the same promise.

Scott’s ex-husband continues to be the richest person in the world with a net worth of $205 billion, holding his position as number one on Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Bill Gates is second with $126 billion to his name, followed by Mark Zuckerberg at $112 billion and Elon Musk at $110 billion.

https://www.mojidelano.com/2020/09/jeff-bezos-ex-wife-mackenzie-scott-becomes-worlds-richest-woman/

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If not for divorce, Jeff should be worth almost $300b. Na wa.

Elon Musk overtook Mark yesterday. These billionaires are not joking. Elon has made $88b since January.

Congrats to her

After they would cry women are cheated all over the world.

She just became a billionaire over night.

That Elon Musk guy na him be covid 19 gan gan his numbers keeps going up

Jeff and ex wife just dey carry first anyhow

please can someone help me explain why the networth of Elon musk keeps increasing. I thought the Corona virus pandemic affected his business considering the fact that he's mainly in to automobiles

He's into other things oo... Check it out

Vanzcharles:
After they would cry women are cheated all over the world.

She just became a billionaire over night.

She did not become a Billionaire over night. though officially she was not declared a billionaire but as long as she was the only wife of the Richest man in the world, she was unofficially already a billionaire because her husband's money was hers.

When divorce becomes a blessing.

It surprises me how these wealthy people dress simple. I admire them for that. Not like my brother that said that he would sow clothes with dollars and use dollars as carpet when he becomes a billionaire

Vanity crew in 1,2 & 3

Please people I need your assistance with a job, I'm good with computer, I've worked as an online personnel for an organization, customer agents, I've teach and I also have experience in medical laboratory. Please help me, even if house boy I can do it, I just need to get something doing in other to get money to feed please. I'm in FCT and I can relocate if need be.

Again
This ones no won gree o
All this ones na format jare
she go marry anoda client wey she come divorce dat one collect share put am join d one wey she don hammer b4

I too get Sense

Notice how the richest women in the world either inherited it from a man, or got it from divorcing a man. Feminists una don off una mic abi?

awon feminist will not like this o

Congrats to her.
Divorce here in Nigeria would most likely not have given her such huge share of hubby's assets.

Eryyy92:
please can someone help me explain why the networth of Elon musk keeps increasing. I thought the Corona virus pandemic affected his business considering the fact that he's mainly in to automobiles

Tesla shares are what analyst call growth shares
These are shares that rise in value not because of the current performance of the company but due to investors' optimism that the company will be very profitable in the future.

Muna4real:
It surprises me how these wealthy people dress simple. I admire them for that. Not like my brother that said that he would sow clothes with dollars and use dollars as carpet when he becomes a billionaire

African mentality

Eryyy92:
please can someone help me explain why the networth of Elon musk keeps increasing. I thought the Corona virus pandemic affected his business considering the fact that he's mainly in to automobiles

Space Station project
Telsa is selling like recharge card in every foreign countries

The wife is a billionaire is surely another Billionaire, no diggity!