MacKenzie Bezos

On January 9, 2019, MacKenzie and Jeff Bezos announced via Twitter that they would divorce. On April 4, 2019, the divorce was finalized, with Jeff Bezos keeping 75% of the couple's Amazon stock and MacKenzie getting $35.6 billion in Amazon stock. Mackenzie also declared she would keep the Bezos last name rather than revert to her maiden name. She is the third richest woman in the world, as well as one of the wealthiest people overall.

In 2014, MacKenzie founded Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization, where she serves as executive director.

Bezos is the author of The Testing of Luther Albright, a debut novel, which in 2006 won an American Book Award.

In 1993, Mackenzie married Jeff Bezos, who later became the founder and CEO of Amazon, making them the richest couple in the world. They announced their intent to divorce in January 2019. In April 2019, Bezos announced on Twitter that she had reached a $35 billion divorce settlement, making her the third richest woman in the world. In May 2019, Bezos signed on the Giving Pledge initiative to donate at least half of her wealth to charitable causes.

Tuttle earned her bachelor's degree in English at Princeton University with highest honors in 1992. She studied under writer Toni Morrison, who said Tuttle was "one of the best students I've ever had in my creative writing classes."

In 1992, MacKenzie worked as a research associate for Jeff Bezos at D. E. Shaw, a New York City hedge fund. They married in 1993, and moved to Seattle in 1994. They have four children: three sons, and one daughter adopted from China.

MacKenzie Scott Bezos (née Tuttle; April 7, 1970) is an American novelist. She is the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married from 1993 until their divorce in 2019. In 2014, she founded the anti-bullying organization Bystander Revolution, where she serves as executive director.

MacKenzie S. Tuttle was born on April 7, 1970, in San Francisco, California. Her father was a financial planner. In 1988, she graduated from Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.