AmazonFINAL 2019
Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott
1993–2019
$38.3B
Her 4% of Amazon, valued when the divorce became final.
- Years
- 25
- Kids
- 4
- Per day
- $4.2M
- Rank
- #2
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Divorces Bezos
Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott
She got 4% of Amazon. He got to keep voting it.
TL;DR
- Married in 1993, the year before Amazon was founded. They announced the divorce in January 2019, after 25 years. (Wikipedia: MacKenzie Scott)
- She received about 19.7 million Amazon shares, 4% of the company, worth $38.3 billion when the divorce became final on July 5, 2019. (Amazon.com; AFP)
- He kept 75% of their Amazon stock, The Washington Post, Blue Origin and voting control of her shares. (AFP; Business Insider)
The box score
The marriage, scored like a season.
- YRS
- 25 years married
- DAYS
- ~9,100 days married, approximate
- KIDS
- 4 children
- SET
- $38.3B settlement
- $/DAY
- $4.2M per day married
- RK
- #2 of 46 on record
Advanced stats
- Per hour married
- $175K
- Median U.S. household incomes, per day
- 50
- In $1 bills, stacked
- 2,599 miles
Per-day figures divide the settlement by the days married, approximate where the exact dates aren’t public. Household income: U.S. Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2024, Sep 9, 2025. $1-bill thickness: Bureau of Engraving and Printing, currency facts (archived).
Tale of the tape
Jeff Bezos kept
- 75% of the couple’s Amazon stock
- Voting control of her shares
- The Washington Post
- Blue Origin
MacKenzie Scott got
- About 19.7 million Amazon shares, 4% of the company
- $38.3 billion at the July 2019 price
Sources: (Business Insider; AFP)
The receipts
Till death
How long his voting control over her shares lasts, per Amazon’s SEC filing: until his death or legal incapacity, unless he agrees otherwise.
(Amazon.com)$26.3B
What she had given away by December 2025, to more than 1,600 organizations. That’s about 69% of the stake’s value in 2019.
(Wikipedia: MacKenzie Scott)#2
Her rank among Amazon’s individual shareholders after the transfer. Guess who was #1.
(Business Insider)What she got, and what she’s given away
Where it ranks
No. 2 of 46 divorces with a reported price tag.
Timeline
1992
They meet at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw in New York. (Wikipedia: MacKenzie Scott)
1993
Married. (Wikipedia: MacKenzie Scott)
1994
Amazon founded, with her help on the business plan, the books and the first freight contract. (Wikipedia: MacKenzie Scott)
Jan 2019
Divorce announced after 25 years. (Wikipedia: MacKenzie Scott)
Apr 4, 2019
Petition filed. Amazon tells the SEC that 4% of the company will move into her name. (Amazon.com)
Jul 5, 2019
Divorce final in King County, Washington. (AFP)
Dec 2025
Her giving passes $26.3 billion. (Wikipedia: MacKenzie Scott)
Next on the docket
Sources
- AFP via Phys.org, “Amazon’s Bezos finalizes divorce with $38 bn settlement: report,” Jul 6, 2019
- Amazon.com, Inc., Form 8-K, Apr 4, 2019
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing, currency facts (archived)
- Business Insider, “MacKenzie Bezos is officially Amazon’s second-largest individual shareholder,” Aug 2, 2019
- U.S. Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2024, Sep 9, 2025
- Wikipedia, “MacKenzie Scott”
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