The coronavirus pandemic has made some of the richest people in the world richer, and one of those people is MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.When the couple divorced in 2019, Bezos transferred 25% of his Amazon stock holdings to Scott. At the time, that left her with a net worth of about $36 billion. Today, thanks to the rise in the price of Amazon stock as Covid-19 kept people housebound and increased demand for e-commerce shopping, Scott’s net worth is north of $57 billion, according to Forbes.And that’s after announcing Tuesday that she gave more than $4 billion to 384 …
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