Jeff Bezos' Ex-Wife MacKenzie Scott Divorces Second Husband: Is There A Prenup?

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott reportedly filed for divorce Monday from her second husband, Dan Jewett, less than two years following their pledge to donate a "vast fortune together."

According to the documents obtained by The New York Times, the petition filed before the King Country Superior Court in Washington State indicated that Jewett did not contest the divorce and that the division of property had already been settled in a prenuptial agreement, signed by both parties.

The 52-year-old business mogul, ranked as the 30th richest person in the world, quietly married the former Seattle-based science teacher last year, which garnered public attention following her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whom she was married to for over 25 years.

Scott and Jewett had a "philanthropic partnership" where they had decided to donate a huge portion of their fortune to good causes. However, there have been signs that the partnership no longer existed because Jewett's name reportedly vanished from Scott's philanthropic endeavors.

On the site for the Giving Pledge, where billionaires promise to give away half of their wealth before their death, Jewett's letter did not appear with the novelist, and his name was also edited out of a Medium post she had written last year about their gifts. Scott had also removed Jewett's name from her bio on Amazon — the online retailer responsible for her vast wealth.

Scott currently has a net worth of $35 billion, but she has decided to give away the majority of her wealth to charitable causes aside from leaving it all to her kids. Scott shares three boys and one adopted daughter with her ex-husband, Bezos.

"I have no doubt that tremendous value comes when people act quickly on the impulse to give. No drive has more positive ripple effects than the desire to be of service," Scott wrote in her Giving Pledge letter in 2019, adding that she would "keep at it until the safe is empty."

Following her first divorce in 2019, she reportedly received massive wealth by accumulating at least 25% of Bezos' Amazon shares, equated to about 4% of the multinational technology company.

Since then, Scott gathered a team of advisers, working under her shell company Lost Horse, and made multi-million dollar donations to non-profit groups that reached about $12 billion in three years. Between June 2021 and March 2022, she reportedly donated about $4 billion to non-profits, including Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Planned Parenthood and Habitat for Humanity International, according to CNBC.

Scott is now the fifth richest woman in the world. The other women richer than her include Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, who has a net worth of $67.8 billion; Alice Walton, who has a net worth of $56.3 billion; Julia Koch, who has a net worth of $55.2 billion; and Jacqueline Mars, who has a net worth of $36.3 billion.