Morrison challenged this decision, but the Missouri Child Abuse and Neglect Review Board, an independent panel appointed by the governor, upheld the finding. He could not afford it, she wrote, pretending he had a job that made money and also pretending he could spend it., Ms. Morrison, who died in 2019, called Ms. Scott an extraordinary writer, almost full-blown, and indeed the novella is strikingly assured, as well as a little bloody, macabre and almost Gothic in places. A small team led by a recent Princeton graduate helped produce video testimonials by a range of public figures, including Monica Lewinsky and the actor Jared Leto. 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.. 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. ), Logan said that her lawyers did not want her to talk with me. She was abused, but there is not enough blood. Penn had once celebrated her story, but, when it proved more complex than institutional categories for disadvantage could capture, it seemed to quickly disown her. They take us where we need to go.. This is my #MeToo This is my story. Following that, her scholarship was forfeited and she lost her place in school. She, Norton, and Harrold sat down for family meals, but Mackenzie almost never had people over; when she did, she hosted them on the front porch. In the essay, Mackenzie referred to the metallic taste of the feeding tube. Lee asked her, It was metallic?. I had so much anger and grief, and I didnt want them to be affiliated in any way with this new life I was building, she said. She is poor, but she has not been poor for long enough. On TLC's Unexpected , Caelan Morrison had to deal with being a teen dad while also navigating his declining relationship with the mother of his children, McKayla Adkins. At one point, as she approaches the bodyguards car, Jessica thinks, She will not try to influence this womans opinion. But Im thankful that Mackenzie came forward.. Ms. Scotts first book, The Testing of Luther Albright, based in part on her undergraduate thesis about Luther Augery, took her close to a decade to complete. The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott once recounted, in a television interview, a Chinese folk tale sometimes known as The Lost Horse. The story is about the reversals of fortune a farmer experiences after his prized stallion runs away. She gave overwhelmingly to groups led by women, people of color, members of the L.G.B.T.Q. Nevertheless, Raffaele encouraged her not to take any risks. Jane Dmochowski, a faculty member at Penn who had become close with Mackenzie and often had her over, said that in the months before the trial Mackenzie got several hang-up calls: She would get so upset, and I never pried and asked who it was, but it was hugely concerning.. Her foster parents had had a baby, and Mackenzie felt increasingly peripheral to their lives. . Some were groups that her mother might have gone to a luncheon for in Palm Beach, or her grandmother in El Paso. She will not work to project what she wants others to see (Kind! Winkelstein asked what happened the night before she was hospitalized. It is a deliberate indifference to evidence. Smith and Hillier signed the grievance, too. That power deserves civic scrutiny and attention.. Before leaving, the caseworker, who was white, explained that she didnt really need anything else from us and she was sorry to bother us, but was glad everything worked out, Mackenzie wrote. 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. Margulis told me, I spent a lot of time meeting with the prosecutor and convincing him that the daughter had no credibility and made all of this up.. In comments online, the Post-Dispatchs readers seemed almost uniformly outraged at the arrest. I found myself with unpredictable and small chunks of time during which I either collapsed from exhaustion and frustration, or ruminated over the excruciating monotony of making and selling sandwiches, she wrote, and worried about how I might pay my rent with the nickels they gave me in exchange for my ennui.. Knowing that Penn had already spoken with Morrison, they asked her for a meeting, too. While Mackenzie was in the hospital, Morrison was released on bond, and she began calling people close to Mackenzie to tell her side of the story. Last June, Ms. Scott announced another round of giving, $2.7 billion this time. She left the company, making appearances at holiday parties and summer picnics, and began working on her fiction full time again. 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.) A few days later, Mackenzie received an e-mail asking her to meet with Winkelstein, the deputy provost, to address questions that had arisen from an anonymous source. Sensing her mothers involvement, Mackenzie asked a university staff member to attend the meeting as her informal adviser. She wondered if the kind face was a type of ego defense mechanism that her mother would use in an attempt to undo the wrong she has most recently done. Sometimes, in the journal, Mackenzie used the word family in quotes. When Mackenzie returned to school, she learned that her mother had hired William Margulis, who had sent four children to Whitfield and later served on the schools board of trustees, as her defense attorney. Commentary was overwhelmingly positive, but philanthropy experts raised significant questions. MacKenzie continued writing and developed an early but lasting propensity for deep research. Like the child riffling through the botany book for plant species, she reached out to a plumber to understand her protagonists home repairs and spent time with an engineer to grasp the details of his work building dams. The hardships we experience are the things that well look back and be the most grateful for, she said during the interview. Perhaps her access to privilege helped her understand, in a way that other disadvantaged students might not, the ways that lite institutions valorize certain kinds of identities. Sherry McLain, a nurse assigned to her, told me, She had two black eyes, and her hair was full of blood. 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. He was known among fellow teachers for giving high-fives to all the faculty members on Friday afternoons. Mackenzie had been an organizer on campus for a variety of causesshe advocated for the university to defund campus police and to reimburse public schools for unpaid property taxesbut in the months before she applied for the Rhodes she had been involved in a more straightforward matter: improving building safety. Her friend Stephen Damianos, who had just been chosen for the scholarship, had told her she would be an ideal candidate. It says that your facial features are so distorted and swollen that I cannot tell them apartdid you write that? she asked. Fendell told her that, if she couldnt talk about why she was injured, she should write it down. 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. 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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. She had distinct advantages over other first-time authors when the novel came out in 2005. The chosen charities were told they could not announce the gifts until the donor did. She was infinitely more talented than anyone else in my class, and that was evident then, said Jeff Sloan, who taught her in sixth grade. The Lakeside School in Seattle, where Dan Jewett, Ms. Scotts new husband, used to teach. When Smith realized this, he wrote the O.S.C., I am profoundly ashamed of us all. (The university says the O.S.C. She just bursts out laughing, Mackenzie wrote. The writing program was competitive. Both her parents had recently died, and she was going through a severe depression, but, she told me, Penn dragged me to every single news outlet that asked for an interview and sent a Penn communications person with me to make sure I said the right things. But she said that Mackenzie concluded, Im going to continue to try to move forward in my life., In a form that Mackenzie submitted to Penn, which formally nominates students for the Rhodes, she described her sense that students applying for scholarships sometimes felt confused and pressured to be someone they were not amidst their application process. In an interview with a writer working on a guidebook for F.G.L.I. The Giving Pledge is a public promise and little more. 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. For some nonprofits, curiosity has curdled into fear, as leaders fret that when their peers receive grants from Ms. Scott and they are passed over, it could imply that they are mismanaged or ineffective. 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. Mackenzie may have centered certain aspects of her background to the exclusion of othersfor reasons we are certain she feels are validin a way that creates a misimpression, the report concluded. released a report on its findings. 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. She wrote to the dean of the social-work school with a list of concerns, including the appearance of retaliation against Mackenzie for giving a deposition in wrongful death lawsuit against the University. (The university has denied that its dealings with Mackenzie had anything to do with the lawsuit. The pediatrician felt awful for not pushing the issue, Brandt wrote. community or all three. In another letter, Mackenzies lawyers argued that she had not constructed a narrative about herself to deceive anyone, but instead had tried to build a new identity after a trauma that had made her question nearly every aspect of her life. Ms. Scott with Jeff Bezos, her husband from 1993 to 2019. Her opaque methodology is the subject of regular hushed conversations in the nonprofit field. I was young, and I didnt know how you support somebody whose family is going through a hard time.. Norton and her partner, Deborah Harrold, live in a large house in northwest Philadelphia. It has no donation schedules, no reporting requirements and no enforcement mechanisms. Ms. Scott was attending the Hotchkiss boarding school in Connecticut, while her older brother was at Georgetown University. It was shortly thereafter that the couple entered the rarest lore of high-tech start-ups. Shortly before Ms. Scotts 17th birthday, her familys fortunes took a sudden turn. students, defines first generation broadly, including students who have a strained or limited relationship with a parent who has graduated from college. It did not escape notice at the Ford Foundation, for instance, that more than half the groups she had given to were among its grantees. But I do feel I got to a point well-suited to some perspective-fostering maternity leave and a dose of serious criticism from willing readers., She continued sending drafts to Ms. Morrison, thanking her every time for reading the latest version, and she kept up with a family tradition of sending annual Thanksgiving cards. White, upper middle class, and in a position of power, Mackenzies mother was demographically dissimilar to most parents who come to the agencys attention. They dated for three months before getting engaged and were married three months after that. It quickly became clear, he said, that this was a very unusual process, and my knowledge of standard disciplinary processes was of limited relevance. O.S.C. There is currency to a story about a person who comes from nothing and thrives in a prestigious setting. Then she grabbed Brandts hand and asked her to keep Morrison out of the hospital room. I wish that I had the courage to tell someone. 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. Fiercetons mother denied the account and said the teen had accidentally gone down two or three steps while Morrison was helping remove gum from her hair. The total amount of grants she was announcing came to $1.7 billion. 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. Why one chapter of the Y.M.C.A. She showed up at my classroom door with a bloodied and battered face and then fainted, the teacher wrote. Karen Weise contributed reporting. Promotion and public events also did not come easily to Ms. Scott. Brandt read Mackenzies diary and interviewed her principal, her soccer coach, and her teachers. Two days after starting the journal, in March, 2014, she wrote an entry about a head injury she'd suffered three months earlier. The number of first-generation students on campus became a new benchmark, a sign that a university was fulfilling its social contract. 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. 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 $900,000 in todays dollars, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. A consulting physician said that Mackenzie most likely fell down the steps at home and hit her head. He observed, She appears scared., In the months since her head injury, Mackenzie had regained memories from the weekend before her fall, and she recalled that she and her mom had been fighting about Lovelace. I had bruising around my face, Mackenzie replied. After you talked to the school. (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.). Brandt demanded an explanation. And ultimately you say it was your mother. I am not a natural for big groups because I am such an introvert, she told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Korzen was magnetic a master storyteller who could make a roomful of people laugh. Instead, The New York Times relied on interviews with more than two dozen friends, teachers, former colleagues and acquaintances from every chapter of her life, as well as public records and the rare interviews Ms. Scott has given, generally in conjunction with the publication of one of her novels. In the weeks before John Wayne Gacys scheduled execution, he was far from reconciled to his fate. But as Ms. Scotts fame for giving away money has grown, so, too, has the deluge of appeals for gifts from strangers and old friends alike. students, and, though she didnt attend the program, she began going to events hosted by Penn First, an F.G.L.I. In a supplement to the grievance, Smith wrote that Penns disciplinary procedures served to shelter the University from review of its role in encouraging the decisions for which it is now punishing her., Mackenzies social-work degree is still being withheld. When Ms. Scotts second novel, Traps, was published in 2013, the extremely private Ms. Scott cracked the door to her life open to the public again to promote her book, sitting for a profile complete with photos by Vogue magazine, meeting the reporter at a Thai restaurant in Bellevue, Wash. Ms. Scott took pains on her publicity tour to demonstrate how normal she was, how she drove a regular Honda minivan when she took their by-then four children to school. Normal! 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. Amazon was Mr. Bezos dream, and Ms. Scott did not give up on her own dream of writing novels. 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. Our customers can browse an electronic catalog of 1.4 million titles by author, title, subject, and keywords and place orders via computer. They rented a house in nearby Bellevue, Wash., where Amazon was founded in the garage in 1994. With Moores permission, her story was put on fund-raising material sent to alumni, and Gutmann summarized Moores life story in a commencement address. He was asked to run a fund-raising campaign at Seattles prestigious Lakeside School, where he taught and which seeks donations from the moderately paid faculty and staff members to a school with assets of $325 million and multiple billionaires in its tightknit community. She worked on a toy drive for the children of farmworkers and on fund-raisers for breast cancer. I really dont have words, Mackenzie wrote in an e-mail to a mentor at the Penn Womens Center. My mom, Mackenzie responded. It is seven years later, and I am still having to prove and prove and prove what has happened to me., Anea Moore, who helped found Penn First, wrote the Rhodes Trust a letter about Mackenzie. Norton said, Mackenzie always tried to say, Im fine, Im fineafter she and her roommates gave up their apartment off campus, she lived with a roommates family in Ohio and then stayed at a classmates home in Philadelphiabut eventually it became clear she was just couch-surfing at friends houses, and you cant couch-surf in a pandemic. In late May, Norton invited Mackenzie, who had just graduated with a B.A. On paper, Lost Horses headquarters are a law firm office in a downtown Seattle skyscraper and a tax firm in Los Angeles that handles family offices for high-net-worth individuals. (Her fine was withdrawn, because the universitys charter says that financial restitution cannot be imposed in cases involving academic integrity.) Another hallmark of Ms. Scotts personality on display in her writing life was her dedication to intense research. In November, 2020, the Rhodes Trust named Mackenzie one of thirty-two scholar-elects from the United States. I just wanted some sort of closeness with an adult, she said. She thought it was funny that [Lovelace] mistook herMorrisonfor a 15 year old girl, Brandt wrote. When White learned that Mackenzie had been telling professors that she felt the university was threatening her, she added a new requirement. The report acknowledged, This is a tragic story, but said that truthfulness cannot be overridden by appeal to trauma. It referred to childhood picturesenclosed in a twenty-two-page letter written to the Rhodes Trust, in mid-December, by an anonymous sender who displayed a great deal of familiarity with Mackenzies childhoodthat showed Mackenzie engaging in typical upper middle-class childhood activities, like horseback riding and going to the beach. Lisa Smith, the mother of one of Mackenzies best friends at Whitfield, said that her daughter once asked why Mackenzie was always injured: My daughter kind of looked at me funny, and I looked back at her and said, What are you trying to say?, When Fendell asked Mackenzie about her bruises, Mackenzie offered vague comments about being clumsy. Princeton classmates recalled her as passionate about books and deeply engaged in her studies. 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. 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. The Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tweeted the Inquirer article, saying it was thrilling that a Rhodes Scholarship had gone to a first-gen low-income foster youth, and Mackenzie retweeted what he wrote. 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. Dr. Espelage said she advised Ms. Scott to draw on real stories and engage celebrities as ambassadors. 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. It felt like an equation of where I would feel the least uncomfortable and the least excluded, she said. Calls to Mr. and Ms. Tuttle for comment were not returned. Universities began looking for other ways to encourage diversity. Mackenzie told me, I have heard people describe sexual assault as a kind of erasure of self, but she said that, because her abuse occurred when she was so young, it felt like there was not a self to begin with.. They liked to imagine themselves as the Gilmore Girls: the single mother and her precocious daughter, so close they were nearly fused. Morrison continued, She was falling apart under the academic stresses at school and was exhausted, and I believe looking for an out.. Mr. Tuttle worked as a financial adviser while his wife stayed home with the kids. student organization. Anea Moore, then a sophomore, had helped found the group the previous year. She was invited for an interview at a hedge fund, D. E. Shaw. The couple, who had been together since they were both 14, found themselves becoming teen parents not once, but twice over. Husband of Private. She investigators were reviewing e-mails between Mackenzie and Penn faculty, presumably to see if she had portrayed her life accurately; they also interviewed Morrison and the St. Louis prosecutor who dropped her criminal casewithout telling Mackenzie. ), 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. The D.S.S. You describe an experience, Winkelstein said. Mackenzies parents had separated when she was six, and Mackenzie lived with her mother, Carrie Morrison, the director of breast imaging and mammography at had considered placing her with one of Morrisons sisters, but the Whitfield principal had called the D.S.S. Class of 88: Ill miss being with you, she wrote. (A spokesperson for the Rhodes Trust wrote, Fairness to all our applicants demands that if any issues or allegations arise, we consider them carefully, adding, We provide applicants multiple opportunities to respond, correct inaccuracies and share information.), Mackenzie wanted to submit a response to the Rhodes report, but Raffaele warned that her case could be referred to federal prosecutors, on the ground that she had misrepresented her finances in her application for federal aida possibility that he said White had raised. I know that good part is still there somewhere, she wrote. 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