Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez permission the Aman Hotel to spell to meal with guests up of their wedding, connected June 26, 2025 successful Venice, Italy.
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The affluent and celebrated person descended connected Venice, Italy this play to observe the wedding of billionaire Amazon laminitis Jeff Bezos and erstwhile broadcast writer Lauren Sanchez successful a amusement of each things money.
The star-studded lawsuit boasts a guestlist of immoderate 200 celebrities and concern elite, including President Donald Trump's girl Ivanka Trump and her hubby Jared Kushner, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Usher and a spattering of the Kardashians — to sanction a but few.
And portion the nonstop details of the three-day matter person been kept confidential amid city-wide protests, it is expected to rack up a measure of astir $50 million.
The mates volition reportedly speech their vows Friday astatine a black-tie ceremonial connected the backstage land of San Giorgio, distant from nationalist access, according to the Guardian.
The main wedding reception, meanwhile, is acceptable to beryllium held Saturday successful the Arsenale, a historical analyzable surrounded by fortified walls connected the eastbound broadside of the city. The venue was changed astatine the past infinitesimal from a 16th-century gathering successful the halfway of the metropolis owed to information concerns.
It follows a pre-wedding reception Thursday, which was held successful the cloisters of Madonna dell'Orto, a medieval religion successful the cardinal country of Cannaregio.
Other broadside events are reportedly acceptable to see a foam enactment and a Great Gatsby-themed soiree.
The president of the Veneto determination authorities which comprises Venice, Luca Zaia, told reporters Tuesday that the wedding and its assorted accompaniments were acceptable to outgo 40 cardinal to 48 cardinal euros ($47-$56 million).
Bezos, 1 of the world's richest radical with an estimated nett worthy of $230 billion, according to Forbes, is besides reportedly acceptable to marque a fig of foundation donations, including 2 cardinal euros for Corila, an world consortium that studies Venice's lagoon ecosystem.
The disbursal doesn't halt there, however: galore guests arrived aboriginal — via backstage jet, ace yacht and chopper — to bask the champion decorator buying and high-end hotels the metropolis of h2o has to offer.
US tv property Kris Jenner takes pictures of US Khloe Kardashian (C) and US world TV property Kim Kardashian connected a taxi vessel arsenic they permission the Gritti Palace Hotel up of the wedding of Amazon's laminitis Jeff Bezos with Lauren Sanchez successful Venice connected June 26, 2026.
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Five of Venice's astir luxurious hotels, including the Cipriani and the Aman, person been booked retired to big the guests, according to Reuters.
The lavish show of wealth and excess has provoked backlash from section residents and biology demonstrators who protestation the usage of the Unesco satellite practice tract arsenic a playground for the super-rich.
Venice has already been nether unit from implicit tourism, with the famed Italian metropolis past twelvemonth becoming the archetypal successful the world to present a tourer introduction interest successful a bid to alleviate the unit of wide tourism and marque it much livable for residents.
Italy has, nevertheless, been experiencing a surge successful affluent arrivals — some to sojourn and unrecorded — arsenic its much hospitable flat-tax regime and booming luxury existent property assemblage person proved a gully whereas different countries person sought to crack down connected the uber-rich.
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