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MacKenzie Scott attends the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party with her now ex-husband, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)
Mackenzie Scott’s gift to Whittier College represents less than a third of one percent of all the money she gave last year. But it has transformed the school. And not for the better.
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In November 2020, when MacKenzie Scott’s people emailed Linda Oubre, the president of Whittier College, to ask for the school’s bank information so they could deposit a gift of $12 million, no strings attached, Oubre thought it was a scam. The small, liberal-arts college in east Los Angeles had never received a donation that big.
On December 15, 2020, S…
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