Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott files for divorce from second husband
MacKenzie Scott MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has filed for divorce from her second husband after less than two years of marriage. (picture alliance/picture alliance via Getty Image)
By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
SEATTLE — MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has filed for divorce from her second husband after less than two years of marriage.
According to The New York Times, Scott filed for divorce from former science teacher Dan Jewett in King County Superior Court on Monday. The divorce was not contested.
Before marrying Scott, Jewett had been a teacher for decades and taught chemistry at the private Lakeside School, where Scott’s children attended.
Scott has given away billions of dollars as part of a pledge to donate most of her fortune, according to KIRO-TV.
In March, Scott announced that she had donated nearly $4 billion to at least 465 nonprofits bringing her publicly disclosed donations to more than $12 billion since 2019, according to The Associated Press.
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years Check out these photos of billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, a novelist and the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, through the years. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2003: Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, arrive at the premiere of "The Italian Job" at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center as part of Tribeca Film Festival on May 11, 2003, in New York City. (Sara Jaye/Getty Images)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2012: MacKenzie Bezos (left) and Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, attend the "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2012, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2013: Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, arrive for the Allen & Co. annual conference July 12, 2013, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2015: Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos (left) and MacKenzie Bezos attend Amazon Prime's Emmy Celebration at the Standard Hotel on September 20, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Amazon Studios)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2016: Washington Post reporter and former Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, participate in the opening ceremony of the newspaper's new location January 28, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Kerry and Bezos worked to help free Rezaian after he spent 18 months in an Iranian prison after he was jailed and tried in secret for espionage. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2017: Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos (left) and MacKenzie Bezos attend Amazon Studios Golden Globes Celebration at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Amazon)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2017: CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos and writer MacKenzie Bezos attend the Amazon Studios Oscar Celebration at Delilah on February 26, 2017, in West Hollywood, California. (Jerod Harris/Getty Images)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2018: Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Jeff Bezos (left) and MacKenzie Bezos attend the seventh annual Sean Penn & Friends Haiti Rising Gala benefiting J/P Haitian Relief Organization on January 6, 2018, in Hollywood, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
Photos: MacKenzie Scott through the years 2018: Jeff Bezos (left) and MacKenzie Bezos attend the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)