Multimillionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, said in an interview with CNN released today that he plans to donate most of his lifetime fortune to charity.
It is the first time the 58-year-old businessman has publicly taken up this pledge, as he has not signed the “Donation Pledge”, an initiative launched in 2010 by Americans Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, which encourages millionaires to give more than half of the wealth they own for philanthropic purposes.
According to Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos is currently worth $124 billion (about $120 billion), making him the fourth richest person in the world. He once topped the list of the richest, but his fortune, largely linked to Amazon, has dwindled as the company’s stock plummeted last year.
Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post newspaper, the aerospace company Blue Origin, and the Bezos Earth Fund, a planetary fund that he launched in 2020 and donated $10 billion to.
Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $24 billion, has already pledged to donate at least half of it to charity when she signed the “Pledge of Donation” in 2019, shortly after the divorce. signed.
Scott shook up the world of philanthropy in early 2021, donating $6 billion to various organizations with no restrictions or requirements on his contributions.
Source: DN
