'The good fortune has not been distributed evenly. Nearly all of the $22.5 billion gain went to two women: MacKenzie Scott and Alice Walton.
Scott, who changed her last name from Bezos to her middle name in July, received a 4% stake in Amazon following her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos; she is more than $20 billion richer than a year ago following a 64% jump in the e-commerce giant’s stock.
Walton (net worth: $62.3 billion), an heir to the Walmart fortune, saw her net worth climb nearly $11 billion since the 2019 Forbes 400 due to an uptick in Walmart stock after the company pivoted to online shopping for groceries and home goods during the pandemic.'