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Amazon boss Jeff Bezos' plans to marry his fiancee, former TV journalist, Lauren Sánchez in Venice this weekend have been met with protests from locals who feel the event is taking over the city.
According to reports in the Italian press, wedding planners have fully booked five of Venice's plushest hotels and reserved almost the entire fleet of the city's water taxis as well as a dock for Bezos's mega-yacht, with hundreds of guests expected.
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