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To revisit this article, select My Account, thenView saved stories, To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Lee informed Mackenzie that the tube was plastic. 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. 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. MacKenzie Bezos has authored two novels, so far. It felt like an equation of where I would feel the least uncomfortable and the least excluded, she said. Bill Gates is among its alumni, and Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott are among the parents. I wanted so deeply for people to understand what it means to not have a family, and I had this fear of people being, like, What happened to youthat doesnt count.. 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. 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. 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 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. I wish that I had the courage to tell someone. Then the University of Pennsylvania accused her of lying. She had distinct advantages over other first-time authors when the novel came out in 2005. Her mother began working at a womens boutique on fashionable Worth Avenue a short walk away. She is poor, but she has not been poor for long enough. She was struck by the way other students relied on their parents, consulting them even about small choices, such as how to phrase an e-mail to a professor. 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. 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. She said that she was usually glad not to have to line edit for a living anymore. Mackenzie Fierceton's mother is a radiologist, and she was raised in an upper-middle-class household. She had meant to say that her team was building a website, the plans for which included a searchable database of gifts.. Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. In the tweet, she added in a parenthetical: (Note my Medium account is under my new last name changed back to middle name I grew up with, after my grandfather Scott. Mr. Bezos later said he would find her writing in hotel bathrooms when he woke up on vacation. Some people said that she had been inspired by the movie Gone Girl, about a woman who stages her own murder. 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. 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. 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. No one wants to offend her, but the choices can appear capricious. students, and, though she didnt attend the program, she began going to events hosted by Penn First, an F.G.L.I. They were talking about work and school and whatever else and having a great time just like they were old friends, Mackenzie wrote. 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. She broke me. She concluded, I was never broken. Her first big statement as a newly single woman came less than five months later on the website of the Giving Pledge, started by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett as a place where billionaires promised to give away at least half their wealth. 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. and had one more year until she completed her M.S.W., to move in. I dont remember, but I was told I drove, Mackenzie said. 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. In Florida, she threw herself into the community with gusto. She thought it was funny that [Lovelace] mistook herMorrisonfor a 15 year old girl, Brandt wrote. Morrison told the Chronicle in a statement: Mackenzie is We read, you know, enumerable books on the difficult child, the spirited child, the willful child, she said. Father of Private User; Private User; James Morrison; Catriona Morrison Bell and Anne Macdonald. She was., Mackenzie was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania with a full scholarship, facilitated by QuestBridge. degree. Many in publishing were resentful. He is the son of the late boxer, Tommy Morrison. Her room, on the third floor, was mostly bare, though she had hung seventeen photographs, mostly of college friends. I still just dont understand why she wont protect me, Mackenzie wrote. People who had once supported her were finding excuses to turn their backs or walk away., Mackenzie moved into a second foster home, because the first was chaotic; while she was there, the other foster child had attempted suicide. Mackenzie had been invited to a pre-orientation program for first-generation and/or low-income (F.G.L.I.) 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. Mackenzie talked with Cannon, her mentor at Civic House, about whether to apply. Morrisons name was entered into a state registry for perpetrators of abuse and neglect. She has built a philanthropic operation that is notable not just for the monumental size and speed of its gifts but also for its seemingly impenetrable secrecy. 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.. Mr. Jewett posted his own letter on Ms. Scotts Giving Pledge page. Winkelstein asked what happened the night before she was hospitalized. Our customers can browse an electronic catalog of 1.4 million titles by author, title, subject, and keywords and place orders via computer. Humble! Her foster parents had had a baby, and Mackenzie felt increasingly peripheral to their lives. According to a detailed reconstruction of the conversation, composed by Mackenzie and the staff member soon afterward, Winkelstein asked why, in Mackenzies application for the school of social work, she had categorized herself as first-generation. And why would an Ivy League school say, O.K., youve been abusedwere going to let you in. Thats not even a thing.. You should know that I dont feel I got there, she wrote to Ms. Morrison in 2000. This girl is traumatized. Classmates at Hotchkiss said they remembered Ms. Scott as disciplined about her work, gentle with others and humble in her manner. Mackenzie began documenting her life with her mother and her mother's boyfriend, Henry Lovelace, Jr., a personal trainer who had won the Missouri Strongest Man Championship in his weight group. She was removing the spectacle from the proceedings. When she got home, a caseworker was at her house, chatting with her mother. The thought that this information may have been withheld from you felt utterly horrifying, Mackenzie wrote. 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. 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 the meantime, an administrative law judge for the S.E.C. Mackenzie was deposed in Logans lawsuit in March, 2021, a month before she gave up the Rhodes. She started writing a journal about her life with her mother and her boyfriend, She said many times that she fell for his famously booming laugh and pursued a relationship. I cannot avoid the sense that Mackenzie is being faulted for not having suffered enough, one of her professors said. The youth should select into the option that provides them access to the most fundingwhich would be to indicate that they are a first-generation college student., Anthony Jack, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who studies low-income and first-generation college students, told me that he would not consider a student like Mackenzie first-generation. Eventually, the theory became impossible to avoid. Although all criminal charges against Morrison had been dropped, the D.S.S., which has its own procedures for assessing guilt, substantiated Mackenzies allegations. 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.) When White learned that Mackenzie had been telling professors that she felt the university was threatening her, she added a new requirement. 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. Probably not., She was interviewed for the hedge-fund job by a fellow Princeton grad, Jeffrey Preston Bezos. It can also be read as a summary of her philosophy. The Lakeside School in Seattle, where Dan Jewett, Ms. Scotts new husband, used to teach. 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 Ms. Scott was attending the Hotchkiss boarding school in Connecticut, while her older brother was at Georgetown University. Brandt read Mackenzies diary and interviewed her principal, her soccer coach, and her teachers. The university had thirty business days to answer Mackenzies suit, but it produced a hundred-and-thirty-page response in nine business days, during the Christmas holiday. 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. Critics complained that she had retreated into less transparency rather than share more information, as nonprofit governance experts had called for. Morrisons familys roots in the United States go back for generations. students, defines first generation broadly, including students who have a strained or limited relationship with a parent who has graduated from college. ), In her Rhodes application, Mackenzie proposed studying the entanglement between the child-welfare and juvenile-justice systems (the subject of her undergraduate thesis, too)a project she hoped would uplift the voices of my foster peers. But, in two paragraphs that drew connections between her personal background and scholarly interests, she took some liberties, such as describing a kid at one of her foster homes as a foster child, even though he was actually her foster parents biological child. WebView the profiles of people named Mackenzie Morrison. We had never talked about her being mentally ill. Webb had hoped that the elementary school would rally around Mackenzie. She has given me a real example of a life of passionate devotion to more than one calling.. The luminaries in attendance at the anniversary party, aside from Mr. Bezos and Ms. Scott, were of a decidedly right-wing bent. In the hallways she seemed introverted, but would come alive during the classroom discussions, said Jonathan Usuka, who met her during freshman orientation and also studied creative writing. The car was a Chevy Blazer, a gift from Mr. Bezos father. 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. 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. Ms. Scott landed in the office next to him. Why one chapter of the Y.M.C.A. 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. The week before, she had started work at an investment firm, with her future husband, Mr. Bezos. A month later, the Rhodes Trust informed Mackenzie that it was launching an investigation into her personal history. Marguliss son was in Mackenzies math class, and she worried that, if she did anything out of the ordinary in the boys presence, her behavior could be used against her. She was invited for an interview at a hedge fund, D. E. Shaw. 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