A month later, the Rhodes Trust informed Mackenzie that it was launching an investigation into her personal history. 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. The number of first-generation students on campus became a new benchmark, a sign that a university was fulfilling its social contract. Within a half hour, police officers arrived at the hospital. In the weeks before John Wayne Gacys scheduled execution, he was far from reconciled to his fate. She worked on a toy drive for the children of farmworkers and on fund-raisers for breast cancer. Probably not., She was interviewed for the hedge-fund job by a fellow Princeton grad, Jeffrey Preston Bezos. She wrote to the dean of the social-work school with a list of concerns, including the appearance of retaliation against Mackenzie for giving a deposition in wrongful death lawsuit against the University. (The university has denied that its dealings with Mackenzie had anything to do with the lawsuit. I guess the only way I will find out what will not work for me in life is by trying it, she wrote to Ms. Morrison in September 1992, a few months after graduation and at a pivotal moment for her future. Over the past year, Ms. Scott has announced grants totaling $6.6 billion. Father of Private User; Private User; James Morrison; Catriona Morrison Bell and Anne Macdonald. It was bad, she said. Two days after starting the journal, in March, 2014, she wrote an entry about a head injury she'd suffered three months earlier. The questionnaire for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid asks, At any time since you turned age 13, were both your parents deceased, were you in foster care or were you a dependent or ward of the court? Mackenzie had correctly answered yes, which put her in the category of an independent student. She is just so amazing at getting people to think, feel, and do what she wants, she wrote. Given the financial instability of her teenage years, it would have been understandable if Ms. Scott had discouraged him from taking the risk. Dr. Morrison was arrested at the time but the case was dropped by prosecutors who said they could never prove Mackenzies claims. Mike Morrison Mikes passion centers on developing leaders at all ages, from the To be fair, I was using Penn, tooit gave me economic and social capital, Moore said. Mr. Bezos later said he would find her writing in hotel bathrooms when he woke up on vacation. Mr. Jewett posted his own letter on Ms. Scotts Giving Pledge page. (She also spent long stretches sleeping at friends houses.) In November, 2020, the Rhodes Trust named Mackenzie one of thirty-two scholar-elects from the United States. In her final year, she took on extra coursework, completing a special seminar in fiction-writing arranged by the head of the English department that ensured she met the schools four-year English requirement. It has no donation schedules, no reporting requirements and no enforcement mechanisms. Well, you could tell them apart, right?. Then, she drove them to Seattle while Mr. Bezos worked on the business plan in the passenger seat. Walter Licht, the faculty director of the program, described Mackenzie as the sort of student who asks a question that makes everyone stop and brings the quality of conversation to a different pitch. The Civic Scholars were encouraged to analyze how their identities intersected with systems of oppression and privilege. Commentary was overwhelmingly positive, but philanthropy experts raised significant questions. At Mackenzies request, Penn had not listed her contact information in its online directory. In April, 2021, six days before Mackenzie gave up the Rhodes Scholarship, she got a letter from Penns Office of Student Conduct (O.S.C.) She had not seen her mother in private since the day she was hospitalizeda court had ordered family therapy, but Mackenzie was terrifiedand had no financial support from her family. Before Morrisons case could go before a grand jury, the St. Louis County assistant prosecuting attorney dropped all the charges. This is my #MeToo This is my story. He had died. MacKenzie Bezos and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that they had finalized the terms of their divorce on Twitter on April 4. Raffaele was reminded of a line in the space movie Serenity, in which an agent called the Operative advises that, in order to trap a rival, one should leave no ground to go to. Raffaele said it seemed as if Morrison were trying to manufacture a situation in which Mackenzie must go home to her mother, because she has no ground to go toif shes personally ruined., Mackenzies lawyers learned that the university was considering initiating a process in which Mackenzies bachelors degree could be revoked. Her room, on the third floor, was mostly bare, though she had hung seventeen photographs, mostly of college friends. She said it felt like an attack on a student. Licht was disturbed that the conversation appeared to have been provoked by a mother possibly seeking vengeance. (The university has said that Winkelsteins questions were appropriate and that her manner was not aggressive. Morrison and White spoke on the phone. She lies better than I can tell the truth.. CreditIllustration by Israel G. Vargas; Photo: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic. She had bruises all over her body in different stages of healingan obvious sign of child abuse.. It was their biggest commitment to charity yet and likely among their last as a couple. But Mackenzies friends and teachers noticed that in her mothers presence Mackenzie physically recoiled. 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. With the sought-after prize of Ms. Morrison as her thesis adviser, Ms. Scott had written a 168-page work of fiction called The Fathering Water, in which the father, Luther Augery, keeps hidden that he has quit his job and settled for a low-paying one. Margulis told me, I spent a lot of time meeting with the prosecutor and convincing him that the daughter had no credibility and made all of this up.. The second arrangement fell through, too, and she was moved into a third foster home, with a young couple. 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., Morrison declined to speak with me on the record, except to write, Our greatest desire is that Mackenzie chooses to live a happy, healthy, honest and productive life, using her extraordinary gifts for the highest good. Speaking for her side of the family, she added, We will always be here for her., After the trial, Mackenzie decided to change her last name. Morrison told the Chronicle in a statement: Mackenzie is Morrison continued, She was falling apart under the academic stresses at school and was exhausted, and I believe looking for an out.. Her gifts were the talk of charitable circles. Last fall, Mackenzie began the sociology Ph.D. program at Oxford, which had admitted her before she withdrew from the Rhodes; shed lost her funding, but a professor at Penn offered to pay for her first year. Norton, with whom Mackenzie had been living for nearly a year, told me, I cannot avoid the sense that Mackenzie is being faulted for not having suffered enough. The next morning, Morrison left the house before seeing her daughters face, she said. 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. She described in detail how she had been at the top of her carpeted staircase trying to tease gum out of Mackenzies hair with a comb: She immediately screamed, ow, jerked her head back, and, after stepping back two or three stairs, stomped off to her room and slammed the door. 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.. Mom heard her tumble, thought maybe tripped going up the stairs, the medical records said. Her preferences are shaping the face of American civil society because of the size of the funding shes providing, said Rob Reich, co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University. Three days later, on Dec. 18, 2020, the change of her last name to Scott was legal and official, according to court records from Bellevue, Wash. Her husband was by then one of the most famous men in America, but he was best known at the time for destabilizing the staid publishing industry to the detriment of local bookstores. We had never talked about her being mentally ill. Webb had hoped that the elementary school would rally around Mackenzie. A spokesperson for his office said that new evidence had been uncovered. During conversations with her mother in the kitchen, she made sure to keep the kitchen island in between us, while also bracing for impact. She thought about running away, but she didnt have anywhere to go. I could tell that she was embarrassed, and she didnt want to be a burden, Cannon said. Anyone can read what you share. I am grieving the idea of herthe idea I had once created for her., Mackenzie told me that, in the past year, shes experienced a state of self-doubt that she hadnt known since high school: There have been moments of almost panic where I am just cognitively questioning myself, like, Did I misremember something? Its easy to slide back into that state, because I want anything other than the realitythat it is my bio family who has caused so much harmso I will do backflips to try to make it not true. In her high-school journal, she had described this cycle of doubt. One of the main characters in Traps is a famous actress named Jessica, who worries about security and employs a bodyguard. But one young Black lady with dead parents using a multibillion-dollar Ivy League institution feels entirely different than the institution using her., Mackenzie understood that her abuse allegations would be investigated all over again, and she found two lawyers who agreed to help her pro bono. Some Penn professors have wondered if Mackenzies role in the lawsuit might have bearing on the universitys scrutiny of her credibility. Using her phone to light the pages, she listed the pros of telling: no more physical/emotional attacks, I get out of this dangerous house, the truth is finally out, I dont have to lie or cover things up. Under cons of telling, she wrote, damaging moms life, could go into foster care, basically I would probably lose everything. After she finished, she loosened the screws of a vent panel on the wall outside her closet and slipped the notebook behind it. the one who is my mother. She learned last week that she had lost her appeal. A professor of constitutional law and a former associate dean, Smith had previously worked at Yale, where he chaired the schools undergraduate student-disciplinary committee. After graduation, Ms. Scott went back to Hotchkiss and taught a summer creative writing program. Husband of Private. And we all have enormous energy to devote to helping and protecting those we love.. barred her father from associating with any investment adviser for fraudulent, deceptive actions, shutting the door on an easy comeback for the familys fortunes. She was no longer seen publicly as Jeff Bezos ex-wife first. In addition to having an excellent academic record, Mackenzie was a policy fellow for a Philadelphia City Council member, a volunteer birthing doula with the Philadelphia Alliance for Labor Support, and a social-work intern at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia. Thats what I tasted, yeah, Mackenzie responded. Three decades after worrying about making rent, she is now giving away billions all while trying to keep herself out of the spotlight. Not only did she support his dream, she worked alongside him to build the company. Dr. Morrison was arrested at the time but the case was dropped by prosecutors who said they could never prove Mackenzies claims. One question on the application asked, Are you the first generation in your family to attend college? The Web site of Penn First Plus, a university program founded in 2018 to support F.G.L.I. Ms. Scott with Jeff Bezos, her husband from 1993 to 2019. She felt relieved to be back in Philadelphia, where Norton and a handful of friends and professors constitute what she calls her chosen family. I dont want to be gone from them too long, because then, like, they might move on, she told me. It says that your facial features are so distorted and swollen that I cannot tell them apartdid you write that? she asked. Norton said, Mackenzie always tried to say, Im fine, Im fineafter she and her roommates gave up their apartment off campus, she lived with a roommates family in Ohio and then stayed at a classmates home in Philadelphiabut eventually it became clear she was just couch-surfing at friends houses, and you cant couch-surf in a pandemic. In late May, Norton invited Mackenzie, who had just graduated with a B.A. But the outline of the story is this: Mackenzie was raised in a wealthy St. Louis suburb by a single mother who was repeatedly abusive, according to two state and Y.M.C.A. There were only seventy-one students in Mackenzies grade, and soon everyone seemed to have an opinion about her life. And unlike with Bystander Revolution, she was front and center. 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. Mackenzie grew up in St. Louis, Missouri with her mother, Carrie Morrison, left, who allegedly abused her, as her boyfriend, Henry Lovelace Jr., right, sexually abused her Mackenzie attended the $30,000-a-year Whitfield private school in St. Louis Since Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott joined the board, tax records show, the foundation has given away more than $300 million. I still just dont understand why she wont protect me, Mackenzie wrote. A friend from Hotchkiss, Margot Bass, described her as original in everything from how she dressed eschewing the Laura Ashley prints many women wore on campus to how she saw the world. For her personal statement, Mackenzie responded to the prompt Describe an experience which caused you to change your perspective with an essay about finding herself in the pediatric intensive-care unit and looking at her bruised face in the mirror. The couple traveled to Florida in May 2018 for a glitzy celebration of Ms. Scotts parents 55th wedding anniversary. WebDecember 13, 1928. Her friend Stephen Damianos, who had just been chosen for the scholarship, had told her she would be an ideal candidate. Though the Trust said that Mackenzies abuse allegations were beyond the scope of its investigation, it repeated an argument originally advanced by Morrisons lawyer at trial: that there were discrepancies between Mackenzies medical records and an essay shed written to get into collegeevidence, it said, of a broader pattern of misrepresentation. 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. ), On Medium, she was writing in the language of equity and social justice, guiding philosophies for her giving. I felt like a passenger in my own body, she said. ), Mackenzie did not know that anyone at Penn was communicating with her biological family. The D.S.S. She gave fast. With the help of a scholarship, Ms. Scott still managed to go to Princeton, albeit with a new, heavier burden. Norton and her partner, Deborah Harrold, live in a large house in northwest Philadelphia. Im finding I have much time to write, all in the early morning, which probably displeases the accountant who lives below me although I recently invested in a rug to muffle my 5 am trips to the kitchen for coffee, she wrote to Ms. Morrison. In a 2003 ruling regarding race-conscious admissions at the University of Michigan Law School, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld affirmative action but wrote that the practice should not continue indefinitely. In April, 2021, an investigative subcommittee for the Rhodes Trust issued a report recommending that Mackenzies scholarship be rescinded. Brandt stood beside Mackenzies bed and asked who had hurt her. Bet the daughter is an entitled brat, one said. At one point they paid for 50 friends to take part in a scavenger hunt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for Mr. Bezos birthday. Her college counsellor recommended that she apply to universities through a nonprofit, called QuestBridge, that matches exceptional students facing financial challenges with schools that will fully fund their tuition. Down-to-earth! Although all criminal charges against Morrison had been dropped, the D.S.S., which has its own procedures for assessing guilt, substantiated Mackenzies allegations. . Some of those approaches were from staff at the influential nonprofit consultancy Bridgespan, others from representatives at Lost Horse. The thought that this information may have been withheld from you felt utterly horrifying, Mackenzie wrote. She is poor, but she has not been poor for long enough. He is the son of the late boxer, Tommy Morrison. She was a foster child, but not for long enough. Mackenzes mother, Dr Carrie Morrison, a radiologist Mr. Jewett took on the assignment and got inventive, suggesting that faculty donations go toward students on financial aid, rather than to the school itself, a former Lakeside colleague recalled. A teacher from Whitfield wrote, While her mother used her wealth to evade conviction, there was never any doubt in my mind that she abused her child and is diabolical in having no remorse. A childhood friend wrote that Mackenzie had confided at the time that her mothers boyfriend would come into her bedroom at night and how her mother would do nothing about it. (Morrison did call the police when he came to their house to show Mackenzie pictures of his new gun. I just remember her being fixated on worry that her mom was going to come into the hospital. At the nurses station, a small picture of Morrison was taped to the wall, so that, if she entered the building, nurses could alert security. In a letter to herself, an exercise assigned to all the scholars, Mackenzie wrote, I know that my first 18 years on this planet will always be a part of who I am, but how do I move on and start this new chapter of my life without pretending like it never happened?, Elizabeth Cannon, the senior associate director of Civic House, where the program is based, sensed that Mackenzie was more vulnerable than she acknowledged. Mackenzie told the hospital staff that she didnt remember what had happened. A month after the trial, the judge concluded, While it is possible that Petitioner was the cause of the alleged injuries, the court cannot make that finding by a preponderance of the evidence based on the evidence presented. The judge ordered that Morrisons name be struck from the state registry. The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott once recounted, in a television interview, a Chinese folk tale sometimes known as The Lost Horse. The story is about the reversals of fortune a farmer experiences after his prized stallion runs away. Mr. Jewett lived in a modest house and had separated from his wife in 2018. And Ms. Scott changed her author bio on the Amazon website to read: She lives in Seattle with her four children and her husband, Dan. Mr. Jewetts Twitter page abruptly vanished, leaving behind ghostly traces of an account where colleagues had bantered with him about science. For some nonprofits, curiosity has curdled into fear, as leaders fret that when their peers receive grants from Ms. Scott and they are passed over, it could imply that they are mismanaged or ineffective. Morrison has a record of 20 students, and, though she didnt attend the program, she began going to events hosted by Penn First, an F.G.L.I. investigators were reviewing e-mails between Mackenzie and Penn faculty, presumably to see if she had portrayed her life accurately; they also interviewed Morrison and the St. Louis prosecutor who dropped her criminal casewithout telling Mackenzie. Morrisons lawyer, Allison Schreiber Lee, had obtained a personal statement that Mackenzie had written to get a scholarship, which was nearly identical to her college essay, and she interrogated Mackenzie about differences between her medical records and her rendering of the experience. She was infinitely more talented than anyone else in my class, and that was evident then, said Jeff Sloan, who taught her in sixth grade. Soon, representatives from Lost Horse were calling nonprofits around the country about multimillion-dollar donations from an anonymous giver. 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