Do you remember the world's most expensive breakup two years ago?
In 2019, the world's richest man, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) and his wife MacKenzie Bezos (MacKenzie Bezos) officially announced a divorce statement on Twitter, when the world's most expensive breakup can be said to have received everyone's attention.
The divorce left Mackenzie with a $36 billion (234.7 billion yuan) fortune (including a 4% stake in Amazon).
This wealth has made her the 22nd richest woman in the world on the 2020 Forbes list of the world's billionaires.
Today, Forbes has released its 2021 list of the world's billionaires, and Mackenzie, 51, is still ranked 22nd.
Thanks to a nearly 64 percent rise in Amazon's stock price, she's worth $53 billion -- up nearly 50 percent from a year ago.
The fortune makes her the third richest woman in the world, behind L 'Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers ($73.6 billion) and Walmart heiress Alice Walton ($61.8 billion).
Crucially, Mackenzie also gave away nearly $6 billion over the past year.
Since her divorce from the richest man, the former novelist has taken on a new identity as a philanthropist.
On April 5, 2019, Mackenzie officially announced her divorce on her Twitter account.
Just over a month later, on May 25, 2019, Mackenzie signed up to The Giving Pledge.
You may have heard of The Giving Pledge, a campaign launched in 2010 by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren E. Buffett to urge the world's wealthiest people to give the majority of their wealth back to society.
Simply put, if you sign up to participate in this campaign, you are committing to give away more than 50% of your wealth.
Although The Pledge has no legal effect, each pledge recipient or family needs to write a letter explaining the reason for the donation and post it on The Giving Pledge Web page.
Mackenzie has always kept a low profile. On her Twitter account, as of today, there are only three tweets.
The first part is an official divorce.
The second and third tweets were published in the middle and end of last year, respectively, and the content of both tweets was simple and straightforward, explaining what she had done with her money in the past period of time - accounting for the promises she had made.
In a third tweet, McKenzie told the crowd that the pandemic had accelerated her giving in 2020, and that she and her team of advisers had been meeting since July to identify schools and other financially strapped organizations that could help quickly.
And the reason for all this is actually the pandemic, because the pandemic has revitalized the stock market, and the share prices of companies like Amazon have benefited.
McKenzie said: "For people whose lives are already struggling, this pandemic is devastating. For women, people of color, and people living in poverty, the economic losses and after-effects are even more severe. But at the same time, the disaster has greatly increased the wealth of billionaires."
