Elon Musk has taken aim at the $26 billion in charity donations made by MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos\u2018 ex-wife. Married in 1993, the former couple finalized their divorce in 2019 after 25 years. Since then, Scott has committed to giving away most of her fortune \u201cuntil the safe is empty\u201d to support social progress.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk said this about Jeff Bezos\u2019 ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott\u2019s donations<\/p>\n
Elon Musk has sparked controversy by claiming that MacKenzie Scott\u2019s record-breaking, multibillion-dollar charity drive is damaging society rather than helping it.<\/p>\n
The dispute emerged after disclosures that Scott\u2019s charitable contributions have exceeded $26.3 billion, positioning her as one of the most significant individual benefactors in history. Since her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos, she has committed the majority of her Amazon-derived wealth to philanthropy aimed at bettering society.<\/p>\n
Musk, however, criticized the donations and suggested that they are counterproductive. Responding on X (formerly Twitter), he wrote: \u201cSadly yes.\u201d He was replying to a user who posted: \u201cUnfortunately, she\u2019s spending it making the world a worse place.\u201d<\/p>\n
That said, this isn\u2019t Musk\u2019s first swipe. In March 2024, he called out Scott with an X post. It read: \u201cSuper rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse should be listed among \u2018Reasons that Western Civilization died.’\u201d The tech mogul later removed the post, suggesting her giving was motivated by animosity toward Bezos, but it had already been saved and widely covered.<\/p>\n
In May 2022, Musk claimed that Scott was donating to political action committees (PACs) posing as charities and that \u201ca lot of others are getting caught in the crossfire\u201d. Most recently, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan called her donations \u201cbad\u201d for lacking oversight, to which the Tesla CEO replied, \u201cYup\u201d.<\/p>\n
Through her organization Yield Giving<\/a>, MacKenzie Scott has given away roughly $26.2 billion. In 2023 alone, she accounted for nearly one-third of all U.S. megagifts, contributing $7 billion of the $19.2 billion in major donations. Scott\u2019s contributions have reached around 2,700 nonprofits, from Howard University to climate-focused organizations. She selects recipients using a low-profile approach she calls \u201cquiet research,\u201d focusing on groups serving overlooked communities.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Sibanee Gogoi on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Elon Musk Targets Jeff Bezos\u2019 Ex-Wife\u2019s $26B Donations<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has taken aim at the $26 billion in charity donations made by MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos\u2018…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,315606,315605,11,1168,55058],"class_list":["post-733269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-charitable-contributions","tag-charity-donations","tag-elon-musk","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-mackenzie-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}