Who is Jeff Bezos? Amazon founder set for lavish and controversial Italian wedding
Tech baron Jeff Bezos is set to tie the knot with fiancée Lauren Sánchez in Venice, Italy in what will likely be a star-studded event.
The fourth-richest person in the world is set to have a lavish wedding in the Italian city, an event that has caused consternation online and in Venice.
Reuters and The New York Times reported the three-day wedding is likely to occur between June 26 and 28.
The threat of protests caused the celebrations to be moved to a less accessible part of the city, Reuters and CNN reported.
The city said in a March statement that the couple did not intend to interrupt the day-to-day activities of residents with the wedding.
"Only two hundred guests will have been invited and therefore it will be easy for Venice to accommodate such an event, without any disruption whatsoever to the city, its residents and visitors," the statement read.
Here's what you need to know about Jeff Bezos.
Bezos' net worth is estimated by Forbes to be $226.7 billion. He is currently the Executive Chair for Amazon, after stepping down as Amazon's president and CEO in 2021.
Bezos is 61 years old.
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994.
The online bookseller has since grown into a multi-part conglomerate that includes Amazon Web Services, Whole Foods and Project Kuiper – a satellite internet project.
In 2000, he founded the space technology company Blue Origin and also purchased the Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million.
The Amazon founder began dating Sánchez following his split from ex-wife and author MacKenzie Scott, about six years ago.
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It's outrageous to suggest income inequality is a thing when a perfectly nice billionaire who might one day give his delivery drivers time to pee is out here planning a celebrity-studded event. Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (handsome) and broadcaster Lauren Sánchez (beautiful) absolutely deserve to have a glorious and uncriticized luxury wedding in Venice on this last weekend in June, and I'm not just saying that because Bezos paid me $1 million. The internet has been ablaze lately with gripes and complaints about this lovely couple's planned nuptials, which are estimated to cost upwards of a totally reasonable $35 million, none of which is going to me in exchange for defending the tech billionaire and arguing he is awesome and above reproach. It's as if people who can't afford a $500 million yacht on which to have a pre-Venice wedding foam party think it's wrong for the world's third-richest person to lavishly celebrate his second marriage when, according to the Rome-based United Nations World Food Programme, 'A total of 1.9 million people are in the grips of catastrophic hunger.' It's rude to make Bezos think about inequality on his wedding weekend If I were Mr. Bezos, I'd hop in one of my rockets and fly the more than 300 miles from Venice to Rome just to give those bullies at the World Food Programme a piece of my mind, and definitely not something like a donation at least equal to twice the cost of my wedding. It's outrageous to suggest income inequality is a thing when a perfectly nice billionaire who might one day give his delivery drivers time to pee is out here planning a celebrity-studded three-day event showcasing a lifestyle few could imagine. Which part of 'this is his special weekend' do you not understand?, I ask while not checking my previously empty bank account to make sure Bezos has deposited the money I'm not being paid. Opinion: Why is Trump focused on dropping bombs while I drop $6 for ground beef? Those mad at Bezos' wedding haven't been paid $1 million to not be mad The reality is this, which I'm pretty sure is in the Bible: People who already have nice things deserve more nice things. And I'm not just saying that because I currently use Scotch tape for wound care and Bezos has promised me a lifetime supply of Band-Aids from Amazon. Rude nonbillionaire protesters went so far as to unfurl a massive banner in St. Mark's Square in Venice that read: 'IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX.' While that is technically true thanks to the tyranny of math, it's an outrageous and hurtful thing to suggest about a noble and fantastic man who has in no way purchased my praise. Make 'eat the rich' Great Again: Musk, Trump and Bezos have led me to reconsider my stance on eating the rich | Opinion Just because a multibillionaire doesn't need multibillions and could devote a large swath of his wealth to making the world a better place without impacting his lavish lifestyle even a little … I forgot where I was going with that. The overarching point is, 'Shut up, protesters! That banner might have hurt Mr. Bezos' feelings, and I will defend his feelings at any cost, or, more specifically, at the cost of the $1 million I was DEFINITELY NOT given to write this.' Bezos-Sánchez wedding will be perfect, just like my free yacht Some are looking at the sure-to-be wondrous and totally justified Bezos-Sánchez wedding and decrying the rise of oligarchs. But I ask you, if we didn't have oligarchs, wouldn't we have to remove that word from all the world's dictionaries and rewrite books like F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' and Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'? Do you know what it would cost to fix all that? Probably less than the Bezos-Sánchez wedding, but still … a lot. So when you look at photos of celebrities like Oprah or Kim Kardashian or Ivanka Trump snacking on Venetian crostinis topped with lightly braised Amazon-worker meat, or when you feel inclined to envision the good that could come from such wasted largesse, I implore you to cram it and get back to your poor, wretched life. And so help me, I'm not just saying that because Bezos promised me a mega yacht he's no longer using, $1 million and an Amazon Prime Video licensed documentary about my life of impeccable integrity. Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on Bluesky at @ and on Facebook at You can read diverse opinions from our USA TODAY columnists and other writers on the Opinion front page, on X, formerly Twitter, @usatodayopinion and in our Opinion newsletter.
