MacKenzie S. Tuttle was born on the 7th April 1970, in San Francisco, California USA, and is a novelist as well as an activist, but who as MacKenzie Bezos, is perhaps best known for being the wife of the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. – Jeff Bezos, whose net worth is estimated at to be somewhere over $100 billion.However, she is widely recognized for being the winner of the American Book Award in 2006.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this famous spouse has accumulated so far? How rich MacKenzie Bezos is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of MacKenzie Bezos’ net worth, as of early 2018, revolves around the sum of $1 billion, been acquired primarily through her prosperous marriage with one of the world’s richest businessmen, Jeff Bezos.
MacKenzie Bezos Net Worth $1 Billion
MacKenzie was born into the family of a housewife and a financial planner. She went to Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut, from which she matriculated in 1988, then continued her education at Princeton University from which she graduated in 1992 with highest honors, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in English language.
She began her professional career right after her graduation, when she landed a job as a research associate at the Wall Street firm D.E. Shaw & Co., a global investment management firm and hedge fund company in New York City. It is where she met Jeff Bezos for the first time, who was serving as the firm’s vice-president at that time. Soon after they began their relationship, and after only three months of dating, the couple became engaged, and married in 1993. In 1994, MacKenzie and Jeff relocated to Seattle, Washington, where he launched what nowadays is among the biggest internet retailers, cloud computing and electronic commerce companies in the world – amazon.com. It is certain that all these successful business ventures also made an impact on the total of MacKenzie Bezos’ net worth.
As a novelist, MacKenzie came to greater prominence and media attention in 2005, when she published her first book, a novel entitled “The Testing of Luther Albright”, subsequently named the Los Angeles Times’ book of the year, and which earned MacKenzie the prestigious American Book Award in 2006 for Outstanding Literary Achievement. It is certain that these accomplishments helped MacKenzie to dramatically increase the total of her wealth.
In 2013, she published her second literary work, a thriller novel entitled “Traps” which tells the story of four women in distress from totally different backgrounds, who met each other by accident during a four-day road trip. The book was warmly accepted by readers, and so contributed significantly to the size of MacKenzie Bezos’ net worth.
Speaking of MacKenzie’s personal life, with Jeff she has welcomed four children, including three biological sons and a young Chinese girl who they adopted.
Apart from all those activities mentioned above, MacKenzie Bezos in 2014 founded Bystander Revolution, an anti-bullying organization which helps individuals to defuse bullying. The organization’s official website is abundant with videos and tutorials, featuring students, celebrities and even experts, talking about anti-bullying topics. In the following year, MacKenzie and her husband Jeff donated a sum of $2.5 million to encourage the Washington state’s efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.
