Thanks to "Corona" ... Bezos' free will become the richest woman in the world

Bezos and his ex-girlfriend.

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McKinsey Scott got the title of the richest woman on earth, just days after her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos, managed to be the first man in the world with a fortune exceeding $ 200 billion, according to the

New York Post

.

Since the start of 2020, Scott has added a staggering $ 30.3 billion to her net worth, thanks to the growth of Amazon inventory, as consumers have turned to the e-commerce giant to meet their needs after the coronavirus outbreak.

Scott's fortune was $ 67.4 billion, surpassing L'Oréal heir Francoise Bettencourt Myers, who currently has $ 66.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Scott is currently ranked 12th on the list of the richest person in the world, which puts her ahead of the Walton siblings of Walmart owners and behind Oracle founder Larry Ellison.

Scott obtained 20 million shares in Amazon after her divorce from Bezos after revealing his affair, the value of these shares amounted to about $ 30 billion, bringing the combined wealth of the richest ex-couple in the world to more than $ 270 billion.

Scott has already donated $ 1.7 billion to organizations concerned with racial equality, gay rights, gender equality, fighting climate change, improving public health, and more.

The lion's share was for racial equality organizations, which received about $ 586,000.

And she wrote in her statement that she was "shocked" by what happened during the current year of "inequality in our systems."

And he, the richest couple in the world, announced their divorce in January last year, and then reached a settlement agreement prior to their divorce, which includes obtaining full voting rights for Bezos on his stake in the company, while she reaped a stake in Amazon, worth about $ 36 billion.

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