Multiple nonprofits and universities that received large gifts this month from Seattle billionaire MacKenzie Scott are describing the donations as "transformative." Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, disclosed Tuesday that she made nearly $1.7 billion in donations since her April 2019 divorce from the world's richest man.
On Twitter, the former MacKenzie Bezos mentioned she changed her last name to Scott recently, which was her middle name growing up.
About a month after her divorc