Then, she drove them to Seattle while Mr. Bezos worked on the business plan in the passenger seat. In 2011, Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott donated $15 million to Princeton for a center to study the brain. 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. Dr. Morrison was arrested at the time but the case was dropped by prosecutors who said they could never prove Mackenzies claims. The pediatrician felt awful for not pushing the issue, Brandt wrote. She settled into a routine balancing work and writing. In a press release, Gutmann expressed pride that the award had gone to a first-generation low-income student and a former foster youth. After the announcement, Wendy Ruderman, a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer, interviewed Mackenzie for roughly twenty-five minutes. 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. ), Logan said that her lawyers did not want her to talk with me. You describe an experience, Winkelstein said. the one who is my mother. In 2018, Forbes magazine named Mr. Bezos the richest man in the world, bringing a new level of attention and scrutiny on him, on his company and, by extension, on her. When Mackenzie initially contemplated applying for the Rhodes Scholarship, she asked Moore and Damianos, the recent Rhodes Scholars, if they thought it would be a problem that she was involved in a wrongful-death lawsuit that a family had filed against Penn. She petitioned a circuit court in St. Louis to remove her from the registry, arguing that the boards finding was based on insufficient evidence and would compromise her employment. She was working multiple jobs, and she owned almost no personal or material items, she said. Ruderman acknowledged that Mackenzie didnt use those exact words, but she said that Mackenzie did describe herself as an F.G.L.I. She was ashamed to tell people that shed been in foster care; she felt so alone that she thought about dropping out. Mr. Jewett lived in a modest house and had separated from his wife in 2018. No one wants to offend her, but the choices can appear capricious. She really wanted constructive criticism.. Parents and teachers from Whitfield gave her new clothes and school supplies. As many other working students have found before her (and, with soaring tuition costs, even more since) it wasnt easy. In the essay, Mackenzie referred to the metallic taste of the feeding tube. Lee asked her, It was metallic?. 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. 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. Liz, the wife of the protagonist, Luther, pins a clipping of a San Francisco Chronicle article about Bay Area philanthropy to the refrigerator, with a picture of her sister and two daughters on the porch of their hilltop Victorian. One of Mackenzies professors, Anne Norton, who teaches political science, checked in on students who she suspected might be stranded. Ambassador to Germany, a position she began last month, and Winkelstein had been promoted to interim provost. 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. Mackenzie remembered that, two years earlier, a student named Cameron Driver, a thirty-eight-year-old Black man, had had a medical emergency in the Caster basement. 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. He showed ease operating in a world of giving that he would soon come to know far more significantly, and that years annual fund became among the most successful, said the former colleague, who asked not to be named out of concern it could affect employment. Following that, her scholarship was forfeited and she lost her place in school. ), On Medium, she was writing in the language of equity and social justice, guiding philosophies for her giving. That summer, Mackenzie decided to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship, to get a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford. Thinking about existing in a world where I had no parents just couldnt be a possibility in my mind, she told me. investigator, Mackenzie, and her mother. Two months later, in December, 2021, she filed a lawsuit against Penn, accusing it of retaliating against her and discrediting her for Penns institutional protection. By then, Gutmann had been appointed the U.S. You start to think that maybe you had it wrong and that maybe it actually did happen the way that they say it did, she wrote. She had meant to say that her team was building a website, the plans for which included a searchable database of gifts.. She said that she was usually glad not to have to line edit for a living anymore. ), After investigating Mackenzie for more than three months, the O.S.C. 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. Unlike Laurene Powell Jobss Emerson Collective or Ms. French Gatess Pivotal Ventures, Ms. Scott avoided establishing a website or advertising any contact information. degree. I just wanted some sort of closeness with an adult, she said. 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. 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. 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 interviewed Drivers classmates about what had happened to him, and she and another student, Kate Schneider, took photographs of the buildings entryways. Mom heard her tumble, thought maybe tripped going up the stairs, the medical records said. The writing program was competitive. 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. I envy her because shes so important.. 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. The couple traveled to Florida in May 2018 for a glitzy celebration of Ms. Scotts parents 55th wedding anniversary. White, upper middle class, and in a position of power, Mackenzies mother was demographically dissimilar to most parents who come to the agencys attention. I dont envy Trish because her life is fancy. 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. Or the propaganda campaign that they can put behind her story?. The media company Puck has reported the names of a handful of Lost Horse associates, including that of her adviser Hillary Chen, who previously worked at both the White House Office of Science and Technology and for Ms. French Gatess group, Pivotal Ventures. The Hotchkiss School, the Connecticut boarding school Ms. Scott attended. The D.S.S. To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. had considered placing her with one of Morrisons sisters, but the Whitfield principal had called the D.S.S. Thats what I tasted, yeah, Mackenzie responded. The next morning, Morrison left the house before seeing her daughters face, she said. Normal! and Y.M.C.A. It has no donation schedules, no reporting requirements and no enforcement mechanisms. In California, Ms. Tuttle had worked on fund-raisers for a museum and a private school as well as volunteering to save the trees. She, Norton, and Harrold sat down for family meals, but Mackenzie almost never had people over; when she did, she hosted them on the front porch. Ms. Scott landed in the office next to him. Husband of Private. They are the people that support you, look out for you, & love you unconditionally. She went on, By those standards, the standards of real family, not one person Im related to by blood meets those requirements or even comes close., Still, she was sometimes hopeful that the kind face her mother presented could actually be real. There are 30+ professionals named "Mackenzie Morrison", who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. She had been hospitalized for four days at St.Lukes, where her mother worked. 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. 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 court agreed to hold a trial reviewing the evidence against her. She had become important with no black-tie fund-raisers and no velvet dresses. Brandt read Mackenzies diary and interviewed her principal, her soccer coach, and her teachers. She was invited for an interview at a hedge fund, D. E. Shaw. 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. (A spokesperson for the Rhodes Trust wrote, Fairness to all our applicants demands that if any issues or allegations arise, we consider them carefully, adding, We provide applicants multiple opportunities to respond, correct inaccuracies and share information.), Mackenzie wanted to submit a response to the Rhodes report, but Raffaele warned that her case could be referred to federal prosecutors, on the ground that she had misrepresented her finances in her application for federal aida possibility that he said White had raised. Her mother, Carrie Morrison, gave a very different story of what happened that day. Some people said that she had been inspired by the movie Gone Girl, about a woman who stages her own murder. She put herself out there but not at the public events that, by her own admission, made her uncomfortable, yet using the skill shed been honing since she was eating Oreos and reading botany books: her writing. They take us where we need to go.. Soon, representatives from Lost Horse were calling nonprofits around the country about multimillion-dollar donations from an anonymous giver. The father of one of Mackenzies high-school peers reached out to a Penn official, to explain that the news coverage about Mackenzie was inaccurate. Down-to-earth! Winkelstein asked what happened the night before she was hospitalized. When White learned that Mackenzie had been telling professors that she felt the university was threatening her, she added a new requirement. programs had affected Mackenzies understanding of the concept of first-generation, but the panel determined that Mackenzie should be disciplinedwith a four-thousand-dollar fine and a notation on her transcript that shed been sanctionedfor misrepresenting herself on her application to the school of social work. She was listed alongside the graduating seniors in the class of 1987 yearbook, and where their colleges were named it said merely that she was bound for England. (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.). Ms. Scott with Jeff Bezos, her husband from 1993 to 2019. Mackenzies parents had separated when she was six, and Mackenzie lived with her mother, Carrie Morrison, the director of breast imaging and mammography at Those concerns were temporarily overshadowed when, less than five months later, on Dec. 15, 2020, Ms. Scott announced another, even bigger round of giving, $4.2 billion to 384 organizations, including hundreds of Easterseals, United Way, Y.W.C.A. Calls to Mr. and Ms. Tuttle for comment were not returned. 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. 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. I felt like a passenger in my own body, she said. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. She sent the Rhodes Trust medical and family-court records, along with letters from twenty-six people in her life. With Moores permission, her story was put on fund-raising material sent to alumni, and Gutmann summarized Moores life story in a commencement address. She had a feeding tube inserted, and was given a diagnosis of post-concussion syndrome. Molly Mudd, a nurse assigned to her case, told me, There was the physical component happening with her head injury, but there was also the emotional component of someone who has been fearful for a long time and has tried to push it down, and all of a sudden it catches up to her. (Her fine was withdrawn, because the universitys charter says that financial restitution cannot be imposed in cases involving academic integrity.) At Mackenzies request, Penn had not listed her contact information in its online directory. 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. These stories attract attention, in part because they offer comfort that, at least on occasion, such things happen. Ms. Scott has published two novels, Traps and The Testing of Luther Albright.. I personally believe the education level (or/and financial status) of the biological parents would be irrelevant, the associate director responded. Norton said, I told Mackenzie, You dont have to spend any time with us if you dont want to, but you need to be safe.. Death: December 31, 2008 (80) Immediate Family: Son of John Morrison and Catriona Morrison. No big house. One of the main characters in Traps is a famous actress named Jessica, who worries about security and employs a bodyguard. 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. According to the Palm Beach Daily News, the radio host Rush Limbaugh, the Fox News personality Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter were all in attendance, as was Roger Ailess widow, Liz. It did not escape notice at the Ford Foundation, for instance, that more than half the groups she had given to were among its grantees. It is unclear exactly how big Ms. Scotts own staff is, but it is believed to be a small fraction of the Gates team. Three decades after worrying about making rent, and even in the wake of her recent gifts, Ms. Scott, 52, has a net worth that hovers around $50 billion, according to Forbes magazine. Still, it was a significant statement. Luther asks Liz if her life with no black-tie fund-raisers. 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.. Dorothy L. Espelage, a psychologist specializing in bullying prevention, recalled in an interview how she was sitting in a parking lot at the University of Illinois, where she worked at the time, when her phone rang. In an e-mail, an attorney for the D.S.S. Her mother is radiologist Dr. Carrie Morrison, and her hobbies at school included horseback riding, skydiving and white water rafting. Ms. Scotts father ran an investment advising firm called J. Baker Tuttle Corporation, which by her teenage years was paying him about $360,000, or over $900,000 in todays dollars, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Her sudden spate of giving has now reached 1,257 groups, from little-known charities to mainstream organizations like Habitat for Humanity, which last month received $436 million, her largest known gift. Class of 88: Ill miss being with you, she wrote. In November, 2020, the Rhodes Trust named Mackenzie one of thirty-two scholar-elects from the United States. The fathers message was shared with Penns general counsel, Wendy White, who asked to be put in touch with Mackenzies mother. The universitys pleading portrayed Mackenzie as a discredited person who cannily concocted a tale of abuse: as a child, she had regular temper tantrums, beyond the normal range for an adolescent. Then she had claimed to fall ill at school and presented a fictitious account of abuse by her mother. According to the pleading, her claims of abuse kept her family muzzled, leaving her in control of her narrative., Four days after the response was filed, the Chronicle published its article, giving ample weight to each side and quoting from the universitys pleading. I was young, and I didnt know how you support somebody whose family is going through a hard time.. students, and, though she didnt attend the program, she began going to events hosted by Penn First, an F.G.L.I. Did I do something wrong to make her not want to?, In her journal, Mackenzie described her mother as having two faces, one manipulative and aggressive, the other nurturing and kind. She worked on a toy drive for the children of farmworkers and on fund-raisers for breast cancer. They rented a house in nearby Bellevue, Wash., where Amazon was founded in the garage in 1994. After filling a notebook with lists of surnames that she thought sounded bold (Fairstone, Stronghill, Silverfield), she submitted a petition with the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, changing her name to Mackenzie Fierceton. That morning, Brandt and an investigator with the Department of Social Services (D.S.S.) She gave with few strings attached. Nevertheless, Raffaele encouraged her not to take any risks. A few months after their divorce was finalized in 2019, a new shell company was quietly set up in Delaware called Lost Horse. I went with the story my mom told me to tell, which is that I was playing with my dogs in the living room and I tripped and fell into a table, she wrote in her journal. She lies better than I can tell the truth.. After you talked to the school. She showed up at the foster home, where three other children livedone was a foster child and two were the foster parents biological childrencarrying clothes in a plastic bag. By most measures the worlds largest charitable foundation, Gates made those grants with a staff of over 1,700 employees. 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. She had straight blond shoulder-length hair, and her teeth were impeccably white. That same year, in September, Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott pledged $2 billion to open Montessori-inspired preschools and support homeless families. (A hotline caseworker had notified the police.) They didnt respond, though Mackenzies biological mother has denied the allegations of abuse. The university, in its response to Mackenzies lawsuit, referred to Mackenzies mother as an accomplished physician and claimed that a court had found her allegations not to be credible. By the early 1990s, her parents had left behind their two houses in California and transplanted themselves to Florida, settling in an apartment building in Palm Beach where at the time units rented for around $800 a month, or roughly $1,500 today. A new era of strength competitions is testing the limits of the human body. She was removing the spectacle from the proceedings. WebView the profiles of professionals named "Mackenzie Morrison" on LinkedIn. I still just dont understand why she wont protect me, Mackenzie wrote. Eventually, the theory became impossible to avoid. . Our customers can browse an electronic catalog of 1.4 million titles by author, title, subject, and keywords and place orders via computer. Shortly before Ms. Scotts 17th birthday, her familys fortunes took a sudden turn. But Mackenzies friends and teachers noticed that in her mothers presence Mackenzie physically recoiled. The report acknowledged, This is a tragic story, but said that truthfulness cannot be overridden by appeal to trauma. It referred to childhood picturesenclosed in a twenty-two-page letter written to the Rhodes Trust, in mid-December, by an anonymous sender who displayed a great deal of familiarity with Mackenzies childhoodthat showed Mackenzie engaging in typical upper middle-class childhood activities, like horseback riding and going to the beach. There was commonality in the fact that a lot of us had different relationships with home or family. When she got into Penn, she said, I had never heard of F.G.L.I., but these labels resonated with a story I was still trying to process., Mackenzie was one of fifteen freshmen selected for Penns Civic Scholars, a program for students committed to social justice and community service. It felt like such a calculated move to exert power over me, she said. It was Ms. Scott. There were only four witnesses: a psychologist, a D.S.S. He lies about his work and showers his wife with expensive home appliances to compensate. According to Brandts report, Morrison replied, Well I guess either she did this to herself or someone broke in and did it to her. Morrison also said that, the night before, she had helped Mackenzie get gum out of her hair; they had been at the top of the staircase, and Mackenzie had fallen two steps but had not been hurt. But institutions used different definitions of the term; one study analyzed eight definitions of first-generation commonly used by researchers and found that, in a sample of more than seven thousand students, those who qualified as first-generation ranged from twenty-two to seventy-seven per cent, depending on which definition was used. Some of those approaches were from staff at the influential nonprofit consultancy Bridgespan, others from representatives at Lost Horse. 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. Oh Luther, Liz answers. In addition, she would have to take a mandatory leaveto get needed counseling and supportbefore the university would grant her M.S.W. She just bursts out laughing, Mackenzie wrote. The following year they gave $2.5 million in support of a same-sex marriage referendum. The car was a Chevy Blazer, a gift from Mr. Bezos father. Humble! After Mackenzie had been in the hospital for a week, Brandt met Morrison at the police station and asked again about the circumstances of Mackenzies fall. And we all have enormous energy to devote to helping and protecting those we love.. She was no longer seen publicly as Jeff Bezos ex-wife first. In the meantime, an administrative law judge for the S.E.C. Morrison denied that she had ever hit her daughter, whom she described as emotional and intense. 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. Im a Black woman, Im middle-aged, Im a single parent of a special-needs child, and I cant do anything that would jeopardize the lawsuit, she said. All rights reserved. Family is not the people you are related to by blood, she wrote. She was five feet ten with long curly blond hairthe picture of Americana, as one friend described her. WebView the profiles of people named Mackenzie Morrison. She described the one who almost killed me. Karen Weise contributed reporting. and had one more year until she completed her M.S.W., to move in. They learned that, the previous day, the history teacher had called Missouris Child Abuse and Neglect hotline, because Mackenzie had revealed details to her about being sexually abused by Lovelace. released a report on its findings. Dr. Espelage said she advised Ms. Scott to draw on real stories and engage celebrities as ambassadors. Three decades after worrying about making rent, she is now giving away billions all while trying to keep herself out of the spotlight. 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