The judge ordered that Morrisons name be struck from the state registry. In an e-mail, an attorney for the D.S.S. notified Mackenzies lawyer of the decision, writing, I am very saddened by the result in this case as I have always believed Mackenzie 100% on everything and I always will. If trauma creates a kind of narrative void, Mackenzie seemed to respond by leaning into a narrative that made her life feel more coherent, fitting into boxes that people want to reward. She was ashamed to tell people that shed been in foster care; she felt so alone that she thought about dropping out. How did you get to school the next morning?. I had bruising around my face, Mackenzie replied. Ruderman acknowledged that Mackenzie didnt use those exact words, but she said that Mackenzie did describe herself as an F.G.L.I. If the U.S. Attorneys Office is getting their information from general counsel at the University of Pennsylvania, he told me, they might act differently based on where they are getting that tip, and there is no quick way out of a federal criminal prosecution.. O ne Monday morning in the fall of 2020, Mackenzie Fierceton received an email asking her to meet with Beth Winkelstein, deputy provost of the University of In an interview, she described how she, too, had been a first-generation, low-income student.. Critics complained that she had retreated into less transparency rather than share more information, as nonprofit governance experts had called for. She did recall that, once she was inside, there was a kind of commotion, and eventually, like, a bunch of administrators kind of rushed into the room, and somebody said, Call 911.. Brandt read Mackenzies diary and interviewed her principal, her soccer coach, and her teachers. They had a baby boy at 16 and then got But as Ms. Scotts fame for giving away money has grown, so, too, has the deluge of appeals for gifts from strangers and old friends alike. I was young, and I didnt know how you support somebody whose family is going through a hard time.. In August, 2020, Logan filed a lawsuit, asserting that her husbands death was owing to system-wide logistical and structural failures created by the negligence and recklessness of the university. student organization. The family had an expensive home in the Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco and another house in the town of Ross, what the San Francisco Examiner at the time called the bosky dell in Marin County for the well-to-do., In the afterword to her first novel, Ms. Scott tells the story of how, when she was just 6 years old, she wrote a 142-page novel called The Bookworm, which she described as a chapter book about the adventures of a worm who loved to read., It took me almost a year of afternoons lying on our living room carpet with a stack of Oreos, a sheaf of kindergarten newsprint, and a fat pencil, she wrote, and I distinctly remember the moment when it first occurred to me that I loved writing differently than I loved riding my bike or swimming.. In it she seemed to address the contradictory urges of preserving privacy while commanding attention for the causes she supported. But I do feel I got to a point well-suited to some perspective-fostering maternity leave and a dose of serious criticism from willing readers., She continued sending drafts to Ms. Morrison, thanking her every time for reading the latest version, and she kept up with a family tradition of sending annual Thanksgiving cards. According to a one-page form signed by a judge, there was no probable cause to believe that the petitioner committed the offense. The arrest had been based on false information., Once the charges were dropped, Mackenzies Spanish teacher, Catalina Martinez, sensed that community sentiment toward Mackenzie had shifted. Nevertheless, Raffaele encouraged her not to take any risks. Ms. Tuttle has been actively involved in a womens group associated with St. Edwards Roman Catholic Church, where the Kennedy family was once known to attend Mass, and Mr. Tuttle has served on the board of directors for the couples condominium association in a gated community with a golf course in West Palm Beach. Or the propaganda campaign that they can put behind her story?. If I look back at all the signs, at the days leading up to and proceeding my accident, she wrote, the signs all seem to point in the same direction. After she was released, her classmates told her how long they believed she had waited for medical care. Im not a businessperson, but to me what I am hearing when he tells that idea is the passion and the excitement, Ms. Scott herself has said. One of young MacKenzies own first public appearances was with her fourth-grade class in December 1979 at a Ross Town Council meeting, where she presented a class project to raise money to plant a new tree. What happened after that? Winkelstein asked. In her applications to college and to social-work school, she had written that, in 2014, she had become a ward of the state once againMackenzie said that she was referring to her involvement in the family-court system as a child but acknowledged that the phrase was confusing. The second arrangement fell through, too, and she was moved into a third foster home, with a young couple. In talking about her childhood, Mackenzie was fragile, sometimes narrowly avoiding tears, but when she reflected on how her life intersected with her political ideals she became focussed and self-possessed. Mackenzie talked with Cannon, her mentor at Civic House, about whether to apply. Brandt later noted that Morrison had not asked how Mackenzie was doing or showed any emotion., Brandt also asked Morrison about the episode, which Mackenzie had reported the day before, when Mackenzie had woken up to Lovelace touching her breasts. The secret benefactor turned out, of course, to be Ms. Scott. She Kitty Bennett contributed research. But he was troubled that her status as a low-income student had ever been challenged. Class of 88: Ill miss being with you, she wrote. Her foster parents had had a baby, and Mackenzie felt increasingly peripheral to their lives. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/business/mackenzie-scott-charity.html, Illustration by Israel G. Vargas; Photo: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic. WebHer father is Mike Morrison. Like the child riffling through the botany book for plant species, she reached out to a plumber to understand her protagonists home repairs and spent time with an engineer to grasp the details of his work building dams. At an alumni event in the Bay Area in late January 2020, shortly before the pandemic sent America into lockdown, Mr. Jewett stole the show with his humor and enthusiasm, as the alumni magazine put it, and improbably won the crowd over with a joke about trigonal planar molecules.. Sherry McLain, a nurse assigned to her, told me, She had two black eyes, and her hair was full of blood. Mackenzie Fierceton's mother is a radiologist, and she was raised in an upper-middle-class household. Her grandfather had graduated from college. She mentioned in her application that she was hospitalized after her mother pushed her through the staircase. She just bursts out laughing, Mackenzie wrote. Then, like Princetonians at least as far back as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ms. Scott moved to New York City to pursue a career as a novelist. The total amount of grants she was announcing came to $1.7 billion. had considered placing her with one of Morrisons sisters, but the Whitfield principal had called the D.S.S. (Her fine was withdrawn, because the universitys charter says that financial restitution cannot be imposed in cases involving academic integrity.) ), Three of the people who had written Mackenzie recommendations for the Rhodes composed new letters affirming that she had never misrepresented her life to them. His wife, Dorothy, volunteered with the March of Dimes and with an organization for breast-cancer survivors. Shortly after a reporter appeared at those addresses seeking comment last month, Ms. Scott published her latest missive on Medium, announcing another $3.86 billion in gifts, and returning to her practice of noting the total dollar value of her gifts. When he called again in December the phone number was out of service, and a subsequent letter came back marked Moved Left No Address, according to commission documents. Ms. Scotts parents, Jason Baker Tuttle and Holiday Tuttle. It was a pretty emotional conversation, because of her fear that, if she did get the scholarship, there would be press, and her bio family could find her and tear her down, Cannon said. If this was a difficult period for Ms. Scott, it was also an intellectually rewarding one. Her degree will not be granted until she submits a letter of apology, a requirement imposed by an appeals panel. She said many times that she fell for his famously booming laugh and pursued a relationship. A privileged child, she left a Connecticut boarding school after her family declared bankruptcy. Her fathers financial firm declared bankruptcy, and so did her parents. The story was quickly picked up by other news outlets. And as a recent college graduate, working in recruitment at a financial firm, she married the man in the office next to hers, Jeff Bezos, and moved to Seattle to help him pursue his dream of an online retail empire one that would make each of them among the wealthiest people in the world even after their marriage dissolved. While Ms. Scott may be seeking to stay in the background, her funds are reshaping the nonprofit sector in the United States and beyond. The kind of philanthropy portrayed in The Testing of Luther Albright resembles the sort practiced by her mother, Holiday Tuttle. (In a separate interview, Lovelace, who had been the subject of complaints to the police by Morrison and two other women with whom hed been romantically involved, denied ever touching Mackenzie.). Some Penn professors have wondered if Mackenzies role in the lawsuit might have bearing on the universitys scrutiny of her credibility. They dated for three months before getting engaged and were married three months after that. Mackenzie had been invited to a pre-orientation program for first-generation and/or low-income (F.G.L.I.) When Mackenzie returned to school, she learned that her mother had hired William Margulis, who had sent four children to Whitfield and later served on the schools board of trustees, as her defense attorney. G. Scott Cuming was an executive and general counsel at El Paso Natural Gas, a powerful energy company that faced antitrust actions over its acquisition of a pipeline company. When you are in foster care, your legal guardian is the state, Mackenzie responded, according to the reconstruction. Ms. Scott found herself juggling waiting tables and writing, staying for a stint in the New York City apartment belonging to the family of her friend from Hotchkiss, Ms. Bass. My mom, Mackenzie responded. In January, 2020, the winter of her senior year, she wrote in a Facebook post that the process of choosing a name had been about taking ownership of my identity and exerting agency in a way I was never able to growing up., Two months later, as COVID hit the Northeast, Penn urged students to leave campus within a week. Gutmann more than doubled the number of Penn students from low-income and first-generation families, her faculty biography explains. Mr. Jewett was the kind of teacher students appreciated, jovial in manner and serious about his subject. But she said that Mackenzie concluded, Im going to continue to try to move forward in my life., In a form that Mackenzie submitted to Penn, which formally nominates students for the Rhodes, she described her sense that students applying for scholarships sometimes felt confused and pressured to be someone they were not amidst their application process. In an interview with a writer working on a guidebook for F.G.L.I. Luther asks Liz if her life with no black-tie fund-raisers. Um, eventually, yes, Mackenzie said. A spokesperson for his office said that new evidence had been uncovered. Nonprofits soon began receiving calls and emails about enormous grants from an anonymous donor, often the biggest donation in the groups history or the equivalent of a full years budget. Mr. Jewett had been scheduled to teach this academic year, according to a former colleague, but at the end of the 2021 school year, just a few months after the marriage was announced, he left Lakeside. In 2004, the couple joined the board of the Bezos Family Foundation, a charitable vehicle of Mr. Bezos parents, who became extraordinarily rich in their own right from their early infusions of capital into the fledgling Amazon.com. They asked how Mackenzie had been injured. She was working multiple jobs, and she owned almost no personal or material items, she said. It quickly became clear, he said, that this was a very unusual process, and my knowledge of standard disciplinary processes was of limited relevance. O.S.C. Her mom knocked on the door and told her, Im takingyour keys and Im calling you in sick to school. When Mackenzie heard her mother leave the house, she got a spare key and drove to school, though she had no memory of doing so. Ms. Scott, who follows no one on Twitter, and who has given no interviews about her philanthropy, responded to the discussion with another note including a paragraph I wish I hadnt cut from the essay, about releasing more data in the year to come. A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. It has no donation schedules, no reporting requirements and no enforcement mechanisms. students, she had expressed a similar concern about the sorts of personal statement expected from disadvantaged students: The expression that comes up is poverty porncontinually being pressured by your school, when you get to a higher-education institution, or even in high school, to share your storyand thank donors, and whatever the case is. (Penn said that it doesnt pressure students to tell their stories but supports them when they choose to do so. She was trying so hard to please, to get acceptance. At Penn, Mackenzie began to realize, Oh, I actually have no idea who I am., When Mackenzie had applied to Penn, the universitys automatic coding system had categorized her application as first generation, because she had not filled in personal data about her biological parents. Before leaving, the caseworker, who was white, explained that she didnt really need anything else from us and she was sorry to bother us, but was glad everything worked out, Mackenzie wrote. and Y.M.C.A. One of Mackenzies professors, Anne Norton, who teaches political science, checked in on students who she suspected might be stranded. Mackenzie was crying, and Winkelstein asked again, What happened?, Sobbing, Mackenzie responded, My mom tried to kill me., Winkelstein paused, so that Mackenzie could catch her breath, and then asked, Do you think these documentations were an accurate representation of your experiences?, After the meeting, Walter Licht, the faculty director of the Civic Scholars program, said that the staff memberwho didnt want to use her name, because her job at Penn is not securecalled him distraught. She had pledged to give until the safe is empty but her remaining Amazon shares were worth more than at the time of the divorce, the result of a soaring market that fueled further debate over billionaires and income inequality. Fierceton, who was born Mackenzie Morrison, grew up with her mother in St. Louis, Missouri where she attended a $30,000-a-year private school A new report barred her father from associating with any investment adviser for fraudulent, deceptive actions, shutting the door on an easy comeback for the familys fortunes. Brandt demanded an explanation. After finishing her second term at Oxford, she had returned to Nortons house for a few weeks. released a report on its findings. Forbes in January calculated that he had paid out $2.1 billion in charitable giving so far. Lisa Smith, her friends mother, recalled that, whenever Mackenzie stayed at her house, she would meticulously clean stuff. Normal! Many in publishing were resentful. I had that feeling of stage fright before a firing squad for my first reading.. Lisa Smith, the mother of one of Mackenzies best friends at Whitfield, said that her daughter once asked why Mackenzie was always injured: My daughter kind of looked at me funny, and I looked back at her and said, What are you trying to say?, When Fendell asked Mackenzie about her bruises, Mackenzie offered vague comments about being clumsy. Family is not the people you are related to by blood, she wrote. According to her classmates, she was unconscious and intermittently seizing for roughly an hour, because it took emergency medical personnel that long to extract her from the building, as they struggled to fit a stretcher into the elevator or the stairway. Because if Im being honest, there are things that Im too ashamed to even speak of., Mackenzie began documenting her life with her mother and her mothers boyfriend, Henry Lovelace, Jr., a personal trainer who had won the Missouri Strongest Man Championship in his weight group. And we all have enormous energy to devote to helping and protecting those we love.. MacKenzie Bezos has authored two novels, so far. Public records also show that Lost Horse has an office of its own in a brand-new eco-friendly building in Seattle. On a recent morning no one answered the door or the phone. (A former classmate had also sent an anonymous e-mail to Penns news office.) You describe an experience, Winkelstein said. Her approach to press inquiries, she wrote, involved respecting the autonomy and role of journalists by doing nothing to try to influence or control what they report., We are all human, she wrote in the post. The Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweeted the Inquirer article, saying it was thrilling that a Rhodes Scholarship had gone to a first-gen low-income foster youth, and Mackenzie retweeted what he wrote. Soon, representatives from Lost Horse were calling nonprofits around the country about multimillion-dollar donations from an anonymous giver. She was no longer seen publicly as Jeff Bezos ex-wife first. Ms. Scott and Mr. Bezos began to make their own forays into the charitable world. We wanted to push the university to understand: if youre going to accept more and more high-need students, you have to be prepared to sustain them throughout their time here, she said. Schneider told me, We wanted to document everything, because we were, like, This is a pattern. When concerns were initially raised about her first-generation status, Mackenzie had e-mailed the associate director of admissions and recruitment at Penns social-work school to ask how former foster youth should answer the question. I didnt even know what to make of it. I went off to college knowing I was going to have to work a variety of jobs to put myself through school, Ms. Scott has said, worrying about how she was going to juggle waiting tables with a full course load. Truthfully it wasnt going that well and I was having a lot of trouble making ends meet, she said of that period. I personally believe the education level (or/and financial status) of the biological parents would be irrelevant, the associate director responded. After Lovelace bought Morrison a gun for her birthday, Mackenzie wrote, If Im being perfectly honest, Im terrified. She described an incident, a year earlier, when she had fallen asleep watching a movie in her moms bed and woke up to Lovelace on top of her, feeling my boobs, running his hand around my inner thighs & exploring other places. She got out from under him, ran into her own room, and eventually called her mother, who wasnt home, and related what had happened. Her room, on the third floor, was mostly bare, though she had hung seventeen photographs, mostly of college friends. WebView the profiles of people named Mackenzie Morrison. Her approach to public life and charitable giving has echoed her approach to storytelling. And why would an Ivy League school say, O.K., youve been abusedwere going to let you in. Thats not even a thing.. Personal wealth is the product of collective effort, she wrote, and of social structures which present opportunities to some people, and obstacles to countless others.. I dont remember, but I was told I drove, Mackenzie said. She was MacKenzie Scott, the novelist upending philanthropy. She has set about disbursing her enormous fortune with unprecedented speed and directness to frontline charities and nonprofits with a stated emphasis on advancing social justice and combating inequality, all while trying to keep herself out of the spotlight. Mr. Jewett lived in a modest house and had separated from his wife in 2018. Both her parents had recently died, and she was going through a severe depression, but, she told me, Penn dragged me to every single news outlet that asked for an interview and sent a Penn communications person with me to make sure I said the right things. When youve grown up with privilegeand everything around you is pretty and pristine and predictableyour tolerance for anything outside that world isnt very high, Martinez said. She wrote, DNA doesnt make a family. When asked to respond to what I want most, she replied, To have a family of my own someday and to be a great mom., Whitfield gave Mackenzie a full scholarship for her senior year. Years later Ms. Scott would thank him in the acknowledgments of her first published book. Korzen was magnetic a master storyteller who could make a roomful of people laugh. Mackenzie told the hospital staff that she didnt remember what had happened. They rented a house in nearby Bellevue, Wash., where Amazon was founded in the garage in 1994. ), After investigating Mackenzie for more than three months, the O.S.C. Although all criminal charges against Morrison had been dropped, the D.S.S., which has its own procedures for assessing guilt, substantiated Mackenzies allegations. Mackenzes mother, Dr Carrie Morrison, a radiologist She thought it was funny that [Lovelace] mistook herMorrisonfor a 15 year old girl, Brandt wrote. If there were causes she supported but did not want the world to know about, she could simply choose not to include them in the Medium post. Waitressing in New York had proved more grueling than waiting tables in Princeton during college, leaving her too tired to write. It was the local dentist who offered me free dental work when he saw me securing a broken tooth with denture glue in college, she said. Mackenzie told me, I wish I had taken more time to precisely describe the nuances of their livesit was a simplification of a complex story., A letter of endorsement from Penn, signed by Beth Winkelstein, the deputy provost, said that Mackenzie understands what it is like to be an at-risk youth, and she is determined to re-make the systems that block rather than facilitate success., The sixteen-year tenure of Penns president, Amy Gutmann, had been defined by her efforts to position Penn as a school that addressed inequality rather than perpetuating ita pivot that many lite universities have attempted. She learned last week that she had lost her appeal. Probably not., She was interviewed for the hedge-fund job by a fellow Princeton grad, Jeffrey Preston Bezos. And unlike with Bystander Revolution, she was front and center. Writing something long, she said in the 2013 television appearance, reflecting on Ms. Morrisons greatest lessons to her, is all about the timed release of information.. Mr. Bezos wanted to quit his job at D. E. Shaw to take a flier on selling books over the primitive dial-up version of the internet. By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. Still, it was a significant statement. Mackenzie Morrison was born Mackenzie Terrell but took her mothers name after her father, Billy Terrell, who worked in soap operas, left. Meet Mother Father and Radiologist Parents Mackenzie Fiercetons mother works as a radiologist and was raised in an upper-middle-class family. In the weeks before John Wayne Gacys scheduled execution, he was far from reconciled to his fate. Mackenzie stayed at school late that night, rehearsing for a musical. After graduation, Ms. Scott went back to Hotchkiss and taught a summer creative writing program. Mackenzies parents had separated when she was six, and Mackenzie lived with her mother, Carrie Morrison, the director of breast imaging and mammography at St. Lukes Hospital, in Chesterfield, a wealthy suburb of St. Louis. It felt like such a calculated move to exert power over me, she said. In addition, she would have to take a mandatory leaveto get needed counseling and supportbefore the university would grant her M.S.W. Not only did she support his dream, she worked alongside him to build the company. The district leaders and the community came together on Thursday to watch Mackenzie Morrison receive her diploma after her family car was hit on the way to But Im thankful that Mackenzie came forward.. Mackenzie said that Penn First was one of the first spaces on campus where I felt, These are my people. And in her, Korzen sees a sense of belonging that shes never felt. 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