When combined with her cash and other assets, at today’s closing price of $3,441 MacKenzie Bezos’ net worth would be $67 billion. That’s just enough to outrank L’Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers whose net worth finished the day at $66.7 billion. At $67 billion, MacKenzie is richer than the following people
Michael Bloomberg ($60b) All of the Waltons (around $57b a piece) Charles Koch ($54b) Julia Flesher Koch ($54b) Carlos Slim Helu ($45b)
Becoming The Richest Woman in the World
It’s been a fairly incredible year so far for MacKenzie Bezos. When she started the year she was worth $37 billion and was the fifth richest woman in the world. Mars candy heiress Jacqueline Mars was #4 with $42 billion, Walmart heiress Alice Walton was #3 with $53 billion, Koch Industry heiress Julia Flesher Koch was #2 with $60 billion (her husband David Koch died on August 23, 2019) and L’Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers was #1 with $62 billion. Francoise has been the richest woman in the world ever since her mother Liliane Bettencourt died in September 2017. Liliane, whose father Eugene was the founder of L’Oreal, was the richest woman in the world for much of the last decade of her life. So how did MacKenzie Bezos become the world’s richest woman so suddenly?
With that sky rocketing growth, Jeff and MacKenzie have added tens of billions of dollars to their respective net worths. MacKenzie’s net worth has grown by just under $30 billion in six months.
#1: MacKenzie Bezos – $67 billion #2: Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers – $66.7 billion #3: Alice Walton – $57 billion #4: Julia Flesher Koch – $54 billion #5: Jacqueline Mars – $42 billion
Does She Deserve Her Wealth?
YES. Whenever we write about MacKenzie Bezos a bunch of commenters complain that she doesn’t deserve her wealth because she got it in a divorce settlement. We are here to say that MacKenzie deserves every penny of her wealth. Honestly, she could have (and maybe should have) received more from Bezos. Also note that just one month after the divorce settlement was final, MacKenzie joined the giving pledge, meaning she committed to give away at least half of her assets during her lifetime or in her will. She further pledged: “to give the majority of my wealth back to society that helped generate it, to do it thoughtfully, to get started soon, and to keep at it until the safe is empty.” I love those last five words: “until the safe is empty”. Amazing. True to her word, she has donated $1.7 billion to 116 charitable organizations in the last 12 months alone. Humanity should hope her net worth continues to skyrocket!
