Who is Dan Jewett? Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's ex-wife MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle teacher after 2019 split
Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos's ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, the philanthropist, has married again following her 2019 divorce from Bezos. Scott, one of the world’s wealthiest women, has married Dan Jewett, a science teacher at the private Lakeside School in Washington state. It is reportedly the school that Scott’s children attend. The divorcee inherited $36.8 billion from her split with the former Amazon CEO.
Jewett announced his marriage with Scott on the website, Giving Pledge, which is a movement created by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage billionaire philanthropy. “In a stroke of happy coincidence, I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know — and joining her in a commitment to pass on an enormous financial wealth to serve others,” Jewett wrote in a Saturday, March 6 post on Scott’s page on the Giving Pledge website. “Recognizing how much I have to learn from those unlike me has led me to a partner similarly inclined. I have seen many ways that MacKenzie has seen her efforts enhanced when she acts on the belief that those with common values but different perspectives, strengths, and experiences are essential to effecting positive change,” Jewell continued. “We are united in that understanding and in our excitement for all we have to learn from so many people working in service of others. With that as a foundation, I join with the kindest and most thoughtful person I know in making this pledge, grateful for the exceptional privilege it will be to partner in giving away assets with the potential to do so much good when shared.”
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Bezos gave his blessing to the happy couple. “Dan is such a great guy, and I am happy and excited for the both of them,” he said in a statement via an Amazon spokesman. Scott and Bezos were married for 25 years before divorcing in 2019. They have three sons and a daughter who was adopted from China.
Scott, the author of several novels, already has an updated author page on Amazon.com: “She lives in Seattle with her four children and her husband, Dan.” Scott, who, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, is worth $53.5 billion since divorcing Bezos, gave away almost $6 billion last year to 384 nonprofit organizations, mostly women-led charities, food banks, Black colleges and other small charities that don’t receive the benefit or attention it may need or deserve.
More details on Jewett are unavailable as of now.