And why ain’t there a funeral if you’re going to act that way
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The lavish three-day bonanza has been shrouded in secrecy, but Bezos, Sánchez, and a guest list of about 200 — with guests ranging from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to Sánchez’s fellow glamstronaut Katy Perry, Oprah Winfrey, and many others — are expected to descend on Venice, Italy in the coming days for the opulent nuptials.
The wedding, though, wasn’t originally meant to take place in Venice. It was initially planned for wintertime in Aspen — but, according to Vanity Fair, some lingering financial trauma from Bezos’ first divorce pushed the happy couple’s weekend back a few months.
Bezos and his first wife, the novelist MacKenzie Scott, were married back in 1993; Scott helped get Amazon off the ground, but their 25-year union ended in 2019 after the tabloid The Enquirer published leaked sexts between Bezos and Sánchez — a television journalist and founder of an aerial production company — revealing their romantic affair (Sánchez’s estranged brother famously took the sexts to the press.) The Bezos-Scott separation became one of the highest-dollar divorces in history, fracturing the pair’s fortune and leaving Scott with tens of billions of dollars and Amazon shares.
Per Vanity Fair, it seems that Bezos doesn’t want to repeat history, with an “insider” telling the magazine that the Aspen wedding plans were changed because the pair’s prenuptial legal papers weren’t quite ready.
“After Bezos’ divorce from MacKenzie Scott — one of the costliest separations in history, which awarded her $38 billion-plus in Amazon shares — his lawyers worked for months to draw up ironclad papers,” Vanity Fair’s Beth Landman writes.
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Tom Brady departs the Gritti Palace hotel on Thursday.
Oprah Winfrey waves before departing the Gritti Palace hotel on Thursday.
Members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion protest in Venice’s Piazza San Marco on Thursday.
From left, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Orlando Bloom are seen in Venice on Thursday. Khloe was dressed in a Skims x Dolce & Gabbana catsuit.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, exit the airport before getting into a water taxi in Venice on Tuesday.
Sanchez’s bachelorette party included a cruise on the Seine in Paris, with Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Eva Longoria joining the festivities on May 16.
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