Bezos, Sanchez to exchange vows in star-studded Venice
Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez prepare to exchange marriage oaths with a ceremony in Venice, a part of Extravaganza, a three -day wedding with dozens of famous guests, but protests by local activists.
61-year-old Bezos and 55-year-old Sanchez, on Friday, on the island of San Gorgio, opposite the Square of St Mark, the famous Italian Pop-Opera Tenor Andrea Bocelli’s son Matteo Bocelli’den singing rings will change the rings.
A senior municipal hall official Reuters, the couple’s bureaucracy associated with an Italian marriage, he said that the couple may have been legally married, the ceremony will not have a legal status in accordance with the Italian law, he said.
The festivals, which are estimated to cost about an75 million dollars, were climbed with a party in an old medieval shipyard, where Lady Gaga and Elton John were ready to take the stage on Saturday.
Bill Gates, Orlando Bloom, Tom Brady, Queen of Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Kris Jenner and Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Dolce & Gabbana Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and Domenico Dolce 200-250 guests.
In the midst of strict security, there was a look of celebrities moving in the city, women in summer dresses and high heels, and the city channels were a little distant from the boats that ferry them.
The celebrations began on Thursday evening in the Madonna Dell’orto Monastery, a medieval church in the central region of Cannaregio, a medieval church that hosts the 16th century painter Tintoretto.
“This magical place gave us unforgettable memories,” the bride and groom promised three million euros (A5.4 million $) in their donations for the three Venetian institutions that they wanted “no gifts ve about their wedding invitations.
Businesses welcomed the glow and charm, but their members are resisting a local protest movement, angry that Venice is wrapped in gifts for ultra -rich foreigners. Bezos, Forbes Billionaire list number 4.
Giulia Cacopardo, a 28 -year -old representative of the “no place for Bezos” movement, complained that the needs of ordinary people were a tourist magnet and largely neglected from the depression due to the cost of living. In the city center of Venice, there are less than 50,000 calm in the late 1970s compared to approximately 100,000.
“When you evacuate a city of inhabitants, you can turn it into a scene for big events, Cac said Cacopardo Reuters. “(But) The money spent by Bezos on this wedding does not enter the pockets of the Venetians. Luxury hotel owners are not Venetians.”
A planned Anti-Bezos march forced the movement of the old shipyard of Arsenale, a more secluded part of the party’s party on Saturday.
However, politicians, hoteliers and other Venetian residents are satisfied with the wedding, saying that such events do more than day tripps that normally exceed the city to support the local economy.
“We are happy to host Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez,” he said.
Amazon’s executive chair Bezos was engaged to Sanchez in 2023 four years after his 25 -year marriage collapsed with Mackenzie Scott.
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