Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez marry in extravagant Venice wedding
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 have committed “no gifts ve about the wedding invitations and committed aid donations for the three Venetian institutions.
The donations are worth € 3 million ($ 5.3 million).
Protest movement
Businesses welcomed the glow and charm, but the event opposes a local protest movement that is angry with what Venice was wrapped in gifts for ultra -rich foreigners. Bezos is number 4 on Forbes’s global billionaire list.
Oprah Winfrey (Center) comes to Venice for the wedding.Credit: AP
Giulia Cacopardo, a 28 -year -old representative of the “No Floor for Bezos” movement, complained that the needs of ordinary people were a tourist magnetian and was rapidly neglected due to the cost of life 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. “
The boat carrying Jeff Bezos (center) passes in front of the expected wedding in the square of St Mark.Credit: AP
Cacopardo was one of the 30-40 activists who organized a protest in St Mark’s Square on Thursday, and as a masked couple posing as a bride and groom, “We are 99 percent” and a man “1% of the world ruins the world”.
The police intervened, forcibly lifted the protesters.
The anti-bezos front was planning a march on Saturday, and the activities have already directed the authorities to increase security and to move the closing party to a more secluded part of Venice, the old shipyard of Arsenale.
Charlotte Perkins, an Australian tourist, said that he could understand that his anger in the cities of the indigenous people is seen as a famous playground.
Olmadı No Field for Bezos ”activists hang a flag of protest on the Rialto Bridge in Venice on Friday.Credit: Bloomberg
“If I lived here, I would probably feel the same thing,” he said.
However, politicians, hoteliers and some other Venetian residents are satisfied with the wedding, saying that such activities do more than the multitude of day-trips that normally exceed the city to support the local economy.
“We are happy to host Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez,” he said.
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A study by the Italian Ministry of Tourism estimated the overall economic impact of the wedding as 957 million € and comes from € 896 million from the “media visibility” and the rest comes from direct or indirect expenditures.
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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