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The way you can do both - i.e. giver her a name, since she has enough accomplishments in her own right to be named, but also indicate she is Bezos' ex-wife for those who do not know is like this:

Mackenzie Scott (Bezos' ex-wife) gives $1.7B to..

This ensures that in the future she might have enough name recognition to no longer be relegated to "Bezos' ex-wife," and one day we might make the () fall away.

To demonstrate this is true, we can turn to a lower celebrity, Mark Anthony. He tended to be referenced in publications like this:

Mark Anthony, Jennifer Lopez's husband...

However, at this point, he has enough name recognition that a lot of publications will no longer mention it in the title.

parent tropdrop 6 years ago

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