Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is filing for divorce from her second husband
The second time was not the charm.
MacKenzie Scott filed for divorce from her second husband, Dan Jewett, on Monday after less than two years of marriage.
According to documents obtained by the New York Times, Jewett did not contest the divorce, and the division of property has already been determined in a prenuptial agreement.
The former couple – who quietly married in March 2021 – first hinted at marital problems when the science teacher’s name suddenly disappeared from Scott’s philanthropic pledges.
On the Giving Pledge page, where billionaires pledge to give away half of their wealth before they die, his letter no longer appears with hers.
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bio also completely deleted all mention of her second husband.
Scott’s divorce comes three years after she and Jeff Bezos announced they were separating after 25 years of marriage.
“We want to make people aware of a development in our lives,” Bezos, the world’s second-richest person, tweeted. “As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to separate and continue our lives together as friends.”
He continued, “We feel incredibly lucky to have found each other and are deeply grateful for every single year we’ve been married to each other. If we’d known we’d be divorcing after 25 years, we’d do it all over again.”
Their divorce came just before Bezos’ affair with TV journalist Lauren Sanchez was revealed.
Bezos and Scott first met when they both worked for the hedge fund DE Shaw. They had four children together.
After their divorce, Scott became the 12th richest person in the world when Bezos’ assets were split in half.
This report originally appeared on NYPost.com.
