While the big gift was formally announced a few weeks ago, property records now confirm that Mackenzie Scott has donated her sumptuous Beverly Hills estate to the California Community Foundation, a nonprofit philanthropic organization based in Los Angeles.
Scott, the world’s fourth-richest woman, is the former wife of Jeff Bezos. Through her 4% ownership stake in Amazon, she’s worth some $37 billion. And with her ex-husband, the 52-year-old novelist acquired the two-parcel Beverly Hills property in two separate transactions, one in 2007 and the other in 2017, for a total of just over $37 million; since then, the compound’s value has soared to an estimated $55 million. Scott acquired full ownership of the estate following her 2019 divorce.
The CCF hopes to quickly sell the high-maintenance spread, with the proceeds going towards “affordable housing projects and an immigrant integration program,” per the organization.
Situated behind gates, the compound includes a main residence — a Spanish hacienda-style mansion built in the 1990s — offering nearly 12,000 square feet of living space. The guesthouse next door, a 1950s ranch-style structure, makes do with about 4,500 square feet.
Amenities include a lap-lane swimming pool, a full-size tennis court and a huge grassy lawn dotted by mature trees. The 2.5-acre spread also sports parking for dozens of cars, vast patios, 13 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms.
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Image Credit: Coldwell Banker/Everett Fenton Gidley It’s unsurprising that Scott was eager to donate the Beverly Hills property, as she reportedly spends little time in California. Rather, the San Francisco native has long been based in Seattle, where she and Bezos maintained a huge house in the ultra-posh Medina neighborhood. That estate includes 310 feet of lakefront shoreline and a boathouse.
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Image Credit: Google But following her split from Bezos, Scott is believed to have moved from Medina to the nearby Hunts Point community, where in 2019 she splashed out $37.5 million for an idiosyncratic home on 3.2 waterfront acres. Modernist to the core and built for a prolific art collector, the impressive house (below) is surrounded by deeply forested grounds.
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Image Credit: Michael Walmsley Back in April 2019, when the Hunts Point estate sold for $37.5 million, it was reportedly the most ever paid for a Seattle-area home. The buyer was not publicly identified at that time, but is now widely believed to have been Scott. As for Bezos and his longtime partner, journalist Lauren Sanchez, the couple is now based primarily in Los Angeles, where they own a record-shattering compound of their own: a $165 million Beverly Hills mansion and the $10 million house next door.
Since her divorce, Scott has given more than $12 billion to charity, including $436 million alone to Habitat for Humanity and $275 million to Planned Parenthood.