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. Professional career. Join Facebook to connect with Mackenzie Morrison and others you may know. Ad Choices. Her mother is radiologist Dr. Carrie Morrison, and her hobbies at school included horseback riding, skydiving and white water rafting. The source told the Rhodes Trust that Fierceton, whose birth name was Mackenzie Morrison, actually went to a private school in Missouri rather than spend the interviewed Morrison in a waiting room of the hospital. 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. We had never talked about her being mentally ill. Webb had hoped that the elementary school would rally around Mackenzie. 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. Luther asks Liz if her life with no black-tie fund-raisers. Probably not., She was interviewed for the hedge-fund job by a fellow Princeton grad, Jeffrey Preston Bezos. Mackenzie is living proof of the parent coaching style in the book. 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. She felt as if her mother were both sanctioning his abuseoffering me up to him on a silver platter, as she later described itand punishing her for attracting Lovelaces attention. What HBOs Chernobyl got right, and what it got terribly wrong. They were talking about work and school and whatever else and having a great time just like they were old friends, Mackenzie wrote. I personally believe the education level (or/and financial status) of the biological parents would be irrelevant, the associate director responded. His wife, Dorothy, volunteered with the March of Dimes and with an organization for breast-cancer survivors. She broke me. She concluded, I was never broken. On a recent morning no one answered the door or the phone. Lisa Smith, the mother of Mackenzies friend, said that Morrison called and tried to be really sweet with me and get me to change my mind about what had happened, but when I said, Im not interested in hearing what you have to say, she got ugly. Once, at the airport, Smith ran into another Whitfield parent, who commented that Mackenzie wanted to go to an Ivy League school, and this was her way in. Smith said, I was, like, Youve got to be kidding me. All rights reserved. She was no longer seen publicly as Jeff Bezos ex-wife first. Photograph by Robbie Lawrence for The New Yorker, Heres an apocryphal story that I figure prominently in., Can I help you find anything or prevent you from folding that shirt in such a way that I will immediately have to refold it?, I just hope the world doesnt end before people can see our outfits., Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us. Rhodes Scholar claimed she grew up poor and abusedthen her story started to unravel, the New York Post wrote. Amy Hillier, a faculty member at the social-work school, took a sabbatical from Penn because she was so disillusioned by Mackenzies treatment. We read, you know, enumerable books on the difficult child, the spirited child, the willful child, she said. Commentary was overwhelmingly positive, but philanthropy experts raised significant questions. (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.). One of the main characters in Traps is a famous actress named Jessica, who worries about security and employs a bodyguard. Brandt stood beside Mackenzies bed and asked who had hurt her. That power deserves civic scrutiny and attention.. Ms. Scott was attending the Hotchkiss boarding school in Connecticut, while her older brother was at Georgetown University. Like Ms. Scott, he got divorced in 2019. A detective named Carrie Brandt had been planning to follow up with Mackenzie at school that day, but instead she came to the hospital. Make the most of the year, and look twice before you leave. Or even to write everything down in here. She showed up at my classroom door with a bloodied and battered face and then fainted, the teacher wrote. 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. I just wanted some sort of closeness with an adult, 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. Mackenzie went to Whitfield, a private prep school in St. Louis, where the schools wellness director, Ginny Fendell, called her the queen of compartmentalization. She got As, served in student government, played varsity soccer, managed the field-hockey team, and volunteered for the Special Olympics. With the help of a scholarship, Ms. Scott still managed to go to Princeton, albeit with a new, heavier burden. 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. It says that your facial features are so distorted and swollen that I cannot tell them apartdid you write that? she asked. MacKenzie Bezos has authored two novels, so far. But her mother and Wendy White apparently stayed in touchin an e-mail after Mackenzie was questioned, Morrison said that she was saddened to learn that M stuck to her story. She wrote, She has become emboldened over time, and has been successful with her evolving tale for 6 yrs. She offered that White or her staff could visit her home, in St. Louis. Dr. Espelage said she advised Ms. Scott to draw on real stories and engage celebrities as ambassadors. 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. And unlike with Bystander Revolution, she was front and center. It was, like, Oh, yay, Penn has a Black Rhodes Scholar with dead parents who grew up working class. (Penn says that Moore was never made to do an interview or told what to say.) 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. The two flew to Fort Worth, where they picked it up. 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. Mackenzie said that Penn First was one of the first spaces on campus where I felt, These are my people. Her mother told her that it was an accident, saying, Im flattered that he got me mixed up with my 15-year-old daughter. In the year since the episode, Mackenzie said, Lovelace had continued to sexually assault her. I dont envy Trish because her life is fancy. So, so wrong. Some of her high-school teachers had reassured her that she was part of their familytheir bonus child. But they stopped calling. 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. The two friends painted, with Ms. Scott producing a memorable portrait of her younger brother. She met with the associate director of special services within Penns Division of Public Safety to share her fear that her family had discovered where she lived. 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. He is the son of the late boxer, Tommy Morrison. Her case was referred to a panel of three faculty members in the social-work school. Shes pretty much invincible. Mackenzie felt certain that, if she shared details about her mom or Lovelace, her mother would convince people that she was lying, or crazy. Trailing behind their car was Mackenzie's father Matthew, who drove up and saw the wrecked car after being hit multiple times and rolling before coming to a stop on it's side. Amazon was Mr. Bezos dream, and Ms. Scott did not give up on her own dream of writing novels. Three days after the Inquirer story was published, Morrison wrote White an e-mail, thanking her for the conversation and explaining that Mackenzie has been loved and cherished every moment of her life. She said that when Mackenzie implodedat the time of her hospitalizationshe had just failed the first AP Chem test and was overwhelmed with work load in other classes. (Mackenzie said she didnt fail any chemistry tests; her transcript shows that she earned a B-plus in the class.) Damianos said, She asked me, I wonder if this litigation will come back to bite me. Damianos and Moore both assured her that institutional endorsement for scholarships was handled by an office that was not likely to be concerned with lawsuits against the university. Morrison denied that she had ever hit her daughter, whom she described as emotional and intense. Given the financial instability of her teenage years, it would have been understandable if Ms. Scott had discouraged him from taking the risk. Im telling my story because I think its a microcosm of how institutions of power can manipulate truth, she told me. Morrison continued, She was falling apart under the academic stresses at school and was exhausted, and I believe looking for an out.. Nevertheless, strange packages were occasionally delivered to her dorm: a pair of sneakers, which she assumed came from Lovelace, who used to act as her personal trainer, helping her stretch; a bracelet with an inscription about finding the truth. and Y.M.C.A. She had straight blond shoulder-length hair, and her teeth were impeccably white. Years later Ms. Scott would thank him in the acknowledgments of her first published book. Instead, she gave through the lightly regulated vehicles known as donor-advised funds, which meant she could make massive, tax-deductible donations with no transparency requirements. An ambulance was called, and Mackenzie was taken to Mercy Hospital, in St.Louis, and admitted into the pediatric intensive-care unit. She will not work to project what she wants others to see (Kind! 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. She started writing a journal about her life with her mother and her boyfriend, That morning, Brandt and an investigator with the Department of Social Services (D.S.S.) Mackenzie talked with Cannon, her mentor at Civic House, about whether to apply. An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch announced that Morrison had been charged with felony child abuse and misdemeanor assault, running a picture of her wearing a pearl necklace and a white lab coat, with a breast-cancer-awareness ribbon pinned to her chest. 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. She gave big. had considered placing her with one of Morrisons sisters, but the Whitfield principal had called the D.S.S. But something unusual happened. I envy her because shes so important.. She has been in therapy since she went into foster care, and she attributes her capacity to heal, at least to some degree, to her sense of fellowship with other children and women who have not been believed. At the time that Mackenzie filed her case, the Chronicle of Higher Education was finishing an article about her lost Rhodes Scholarship. As Mackenzie recovered, a friend, Ayah El-Fahmawi, stayed with her and made her food. The week before, she had started work at an investment firm, with her future husband, Mr. Bezos. But he was troubled that her status as a low-income student had ever been challenged. 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. Morrison told the Chronicle in a statement: Mackenzie is . She interviewed Drivers classmates about what had happened to him, and she and another student, Kate Schneider, took photographs of the buildings entryways. Mackenzie Fierceton's mother is a radiologist, and she was raised in an upper-middle-class household. She cries, she doesnt eat, she doesnt sleep. ), 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. Anyone can read what you share. 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. Some Penn professors have wondered if Mackenzies role in the lawsuit might have bearing on the universitys scrutiny of her credibility. She really wanted constructive criticism.. Attempts to reach Ms. Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett, a chemistry teacher, for this article by phone, email and letter, directly and through intermediaries, were met with silence. Their gift was incredibly consequential, said Zach Silk, campaign manager of Washington United for Marriage, completely changing the scale of what had been a pretty scrappy but somewhat underfunded effort. Nevertheless, Raffaele encouraged her not to take any risks. She was invited for an interview at a hedge fund, D. E. Shaw. Friends remembered the couple as fun loving, big on books but also other forms of culture. Good luck, bad luck, its not the way that we really need to look at things, she told the television host Charlie Rose in 2013, after relating the parable to him. 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. We want to salute our veterans and show them the respect and gratitude that they deserve, Ms. Tuttle told the Palm Beach Daily News, four years after the bankruptcy filing. They told the schools how Mackenzie - whose previous name was Mackenzie Morrison - went to the $30,000-a-year Whitfield private school in St. Louis, Missouri. (Her doctors said that her head injuries in high school may have put her at greater risk for the disorder.) It was Ms. Scott. 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. degree. A month after beginning the journal, Mackenzie came to school with a black eye. She just bursts out laughing, Mackenzie wrote. Michael Raffaele, one of the attorneys, said that Morrison presented herself as a model parent who didnt understand why Mackenzie wouldnt accept her love and come home. You have to become a caretaker. Moore didnt think it was right, for instance, that universities commonly closed many dorms and cafeterias during the holidays, leaving vulnerable students feeling displaced. She lies better than I can tell the truth.. 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.. 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. Meet Mother Father and Radiologist Parents Mackenzie Fiercetons mother works as a radiologist and was raised in an upper-middle-class family. studentan abbreviation that may invite confusion, because it can refer to people who are either low-income or first-generation, not necessarily both. No girls in velvet dresses, was disappointing. She imagined that starting over would be the easiest thing b/c I wasnt leaving behind a regular family like so many others, she wrote in her journal, two weeks after arriving at Penn. They rented a house in nearby Bellevue, Wash., where Amazon was founded in the garage in 1994. After the caseworkers visit, Mackenzie was on high alert, trying not to set anyone or anything off, she wrote in her diary. Mackenzie stayed at school late that night, rehearsing for a musical. 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. The new news is that last July Jeff and I moved from New York to Seattle, where Ive spent most of my time helping him start a business selling books over the Internet, she wrote in a letter to Ms. Morrison in 1995. Yet the more she avoided the spotlight, the more it seemed to find her. Shortly before the pandemic hit, the chemistry teacher Dan Jewett took on a delicate, sometimes unpopular task. And we all have enormous energy to devote to helping and protecting those we love.. That summer, Mackenzie decided to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship, to get a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford. Its an interesting business, and, on the whole, having a part-time job has been good for my writing., But she also started taking a writing seminar at the University of Washington. Mackenzie Fierceton (@MFierceton) March 28, 2022. I was young, and I didnt know how you support somebody whose family is going through a hard time.. Because Mackenzie had always been kind of trotted out by our school as this shining example of a successful alumna.. When she got home, a caseworker was at her house, chatting with her mother. 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.. She was a foster child, but not for long enough. Three decades after worrying about making rent, she is now giving away billions all while trying to keep herself out of the spotlight. Fierceton resided in Chesterfield, a rich suburb of St. Louis, with her mother, Carrie Morrison, the director of breast imaging and mammography at St. Luke's Hospital. Public records also show that Lost Horse has an office of its own in a brand-new eco-friendly building in Seattle. In a She worked on a toy drive for the children of farmworkers and on fund-raisers for breast cancer. Winkelstein asked what happened the night before she was hospitalized. Her approach to public life and charitable giving has echoed her approach to storytelling. At the end of the interview, she offered to connect Mackenzie with support. In 2014, A 17-year-old Mackenzie told police that her mother pushed her down stairs and struck her at their four bedroom, $750,000 suburban home. Mackenzie said that her college counsellor had told her that, as an independent student estranged from her family, this information was not required. Mr. Jewett was the kind of teacher students appreciated, jovial in manner and serious about his subject. One of Mackenzies tenth-grade teachers shared that Mackenzie was afraid to talk about her home life, so the teacher had begun asking her if the weekend had been cloudy or stormy. Fendell, the wellness director, said that she had seen text messages in which Morrison had lashed out at Mackenzie, calling her a fucking piece of shit or telling her, Get your fat ass home. Brandt also spoke with Mackenzies pediatrician, who felt guilty that, at Mackenzies annual physical a month earlier, she hadnt X-rayed a large bruise on Mackenzies arm. The thought that this information may have been withheld from you felt utterly horrifying, Mackenzie wrote. Morrisons trial was held during the spring of Mackenzies junior year. In January 2019, Ms. Scott and Mr. Bezos jointly announced on his Twitter account that they were divorcing. Ambassador to Germany, a position she began last month, and Winkelstein had been promoted to interim provost. In California, Ms. Tuttle had worked on fund-raisers for a museum and a private school as well as volunteering to save the trees. Schneider told me, We wanted to document everything, because we were, like, This is a pattern. Calls to Mr. and Ms. Tuttle for comment were not returned. I helped organize a storytelling event for a friends church at a board and care institute, where [I met] Mackenzie Morrison, the daughter of the church lady who 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. Suddenly, a New York cop remembered a long-ago murder. 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. The $12 billion in grants she has announced add up to more than the total lifetime giving of the late Eli Broad and his widow, Edythe, renowned for their generosity in Los Angeles, not to mention far richer couples, like Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. In 2011, Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott donated $15 million to Princeton for a center to study the brain. She is brilliant and can charm anyone, Mackenzie wrote. 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. When she visited friends and former teachers, she tried to take up as little space as possible. 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. Morrison told officers that her daughter asked her to extract some gum from her hair as she stood at the top of a staircase, and as she tried to, Fierceton jerked, fell down two steps, and then sat down. 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. 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. Unlike Laurene Powell Jobss Emerson Collective or Ms. French Gatess Pivotal Ventures, Ms. Scott avoided establishing a website or advertising any contact information. 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. MacKenzie Bezos and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that they had finalized the terms of their divorce on Twitter on April 4. In an evaluation for QuestBridge, Mackenzies history teacher wrote that Mackenzie, after escaping her wealthy but abusive parent, was on her own in every way., Mackenzie explained in a biographical essay that her private school was among the most lite in St. Louis. 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. She sent the Rhodes Trust medical and family-court records, along with letters from twenty-six people in her life. Humble! 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. I wish that I had the courage to tell someone. Some people said that she had been inspired by the movie Gone Girl, about a woman who stages her own murder. 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