It’ll take greater than penny-pinching spaceman Jeff Bezos to sink the traditional metropolis of Venice, it seems. The Donald Trump-backing proprietor of the Washington Publish, who based on-line retailer Amazon in 1994, is planning a summertime wedding ceremony to his fiancee, former journalist Lauren Sánchez. Worries had been raised after its location was recognized because the historic floating metropolis, which has confronted rising scrutiny as a area of environmental peril since huge floods hit it in 2019. However in line with an announcement from Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, the Metropolis of Canals is able to deal with an inflow of celebrities, staffers, and media for the couple’s stroll down the aisle.
Engaged since at the least 2023, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding ceremony has been the topic of scorching debate: citing unnamed sources, news outlets claimed the pair would tie the knot in a $600 million ceremony in Aspen final December, however whoopsie, they certain didn’t. “This entire factor is totally false — none of that is occurring,” Bezos said on X (previously Twitter) on the time.
“The outdated adage ‘don’t imagine every part you learn’ is much more true in the present day than it ever has been,” mentioned the Publish proprietor, who noticed a mass subscriber exodus final month after—per NPR— he introduced that he would “radically overhaul the paper’s opinion pages to replicate libertarian priorities and to exclude opposing factors of view.”
“Now lies can get ALL the way in which world wide earlier than the reality can get its pants on. So watch out on the market people and don’t be gullible,” the so-called “superbillionaire” continued.
Bezos issued no such disclaimers when information broke earlier this month that the couple would say their vows in Venice, Italy, with an inventory of invited company that reportedly contains Leonardo DiCaprio, Eva Longoria, Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry, Brian Glazer, Barbra Streisand, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and fellow Trump inauguration booster Jewel.
In accordance to Page Six, “President Trump, first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, in addition to his brother, Joshua Kushner and his spouse, mannequin Karlie Kloss” additionally obtained invitations to the occasion.
Town of Venice confirmed at the least among the wedding ceremony particulars on Saturday, in an announcement reported on by the AP, amongst different retailers. “The numerous speculations and faux information circulating about Jeff Bezos’ wedding ceremony are utterly unfounded,” the assertion—attributed to Brugnaro—reads. “Venice is used to being the stage for occasions and exhibits each week, with out important impacts,” it mentioned, noting that solely 200 company are anticipated for the Bezos/Sánchez nuptials.
In accordance to CNN, mayoral spokesperson Luca Zuin says that the marriage weekend is ready for June 24 to 26, and gained’t really be held within the metropolis correct. As an alternative, the marriage is deliberate for Bezos’ $500-million superyacht, Koru, which shall be anchored within the Venice lagoon, although company may search lodging at one of many metropolis’s many motels in the course of the days of the occasion.
The information that the large present shall be on the ship is probably going a reduction to these in United Nations heritage websites website safety department UNESCO, which issued a 2023 report saying that over-tourism has put the realm’s delicate infrastructure in danger. Whereas not currently on the company’s checklist of the world’s most gravely endangered websites, it stays into consideration. Officers and companies “want the push now to behave sooner, larger and do extra,” mentioned Union of Involved Scientists deputy director Adam Markham in 2023. In any other case, “Venice goes to actually be strangled to loss of life from local weather change and tourism,” a state of affairs that even the world’s second-richest man won’t be capable to reverse.
