MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos has become the richest woman on earth, days after her ex-spouse became the world’s first ever person to worth $200 billion.
Scott, who recently dropped the Bezos surname she had kept since their 2019 divorce, added a staggering $30.3 billion to her net worth so far in 2020, thanks to Amazon’s stock growth as stay-at-home consumers resorted to patronising the e-commerce giant for their shopping needs.
With a fortune valued at $67.4 billion, Scott has overtaken Françoise Bettencourt Meyer, heiress of L’Oreal, who is currently worth $66.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Scott is currently the 12th richest person in the world, with the value of her 4 percent ownership stake in Amazon putting her ahead of Walmart’s Walton siblings and just behind Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
If she somehow adds another $9 billion to her net worth, the latest wealthiest woman alive stands a chance of making the top-10.
She received 20 million Amazon shares when she divorced Bezos following revelations of his infidelity. At the time, the shares were worth roughly $30 billion.
