Wednesday 28 September 2022 10:11 PM MacKenzie Scott has filed for divorce from her second husband, science teacher ... trends now
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has filed for divorce from her second husband, science teacher Dan Jewett, in a puzzling and unexplained move.
Scott, who recently removed all mention of her husband from websites outlining her charity initiatives, filed for divorce in Washington State on Monday, according the New York Times.
Scott, who is worth an estimated $28 billion following her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, removed husband Dan Jewett's name and picture from her Giving Pledge profile sometime in the past week, archived versions of the website show.
In March of 2021, Scott used the same Giving Pledge site to announce her marriage to Jewett, a high school chemistry teacher from Washington state, by adding his name to her vow to donate the majority of their wealth to charity.
Jewett's name has also recently been edited out of a Medium post that Scott wrote last year about their giving efforts, noted the New York Times, which first reported on the quiet changes.
The attorney who represented Scott in her 2019 divorce from Bezos declined to answer questions from the Times, and did not immediately respond to an inquiry from DailyMail.com on Wednesday afternoon.
Mackenzie Scott removed husband Dan Jewett's name and picture from her Giving Pledge profile sometime in the past week
The billionaire philanthropist has offered no explanation for the move, and her divorce attorney declined to answer questions
Though Scott is widely recognized as one of the most generous philanthropists on the planet, she maintains a low public profile, tweeting or writing on Medium only a few times a year to highlight charitable causes.
Scott, 52, and Jewett, 47, have rarely been seen together, and he quietly resigned from his teaching job at a private high school in Washington last year, saying he did not want to create a distraction there.
The photo of Scott and Jewett that previously appeared on the Giving Pledge site, appearing to show them out hiking together, is the only publicly available image of the couple.
As well, some of Jewett's only known public remarks were in his letter posted on the Giving Pledge site, which has now been removed.
'And now, in a stroke of happy coincidence, I am married to one of the most generous and kind people I know - and joining
