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Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry might face protests at Bezos-Sanchez wedding ceremony

Editorial Board Published June 17, 2025
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It seems to be like Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez might have picked the mistaken time in historical past to throw their lavish dream wedding ceremony in Venice, with their image-conscious, A-list visitors doubtlessly having to cross via a gauntlet of anti-oligarch protesters to get to the ceremony within the historic Italian metropolis.

Final Friday, Venetians representing varied native teams gathered on the well-known Rialto Bridge, spanning the Grand Canal, and unfurled a “No Space for Bezos!” banner, the New York Instances reported. They vowed to prepare a sequence of protests on the times in late June when lots of of visitors are anticipated to descend on the lagoon metropolis for a dayslong extravaganza, celebrating the nuptials of the billionaire Amazon founder and his former TV journalist fiancée. Potential superstar visitors embrace Kim Kardashian, Oprah Winfrey, Katy Perry, Gayle King, Eva Longoria and Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump.

“Bezos will never get to the Misericordia,” one protest organizer, Federica Toninello, instructed others on the Rialto Bridge gathering, the New York Instances reported. The Misericordia, a former charity corridor turned occasions area, is taken into account to be a possible venue for the ceremony or a associated occasion. To loud applause, Toninello stated: “We have to block Bezos. … We will line the streets with our bodies, block the canals with lifesavers, dinghies and our boats.”

A ‘No Jeff Bezos wedding ceremony’ protest poster is hooked up on a wall in Venice, Italy, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Picture/Luca Bruno) 

Toninello and different organizers are attempting to whip up resistance to the newest huge occasion that they are saying has turned their hometown and world heritage web site — which has lengthy suffered from the results of extreme tourism — right into a playground for the wealthy, The Guardian additionally reported.

They object to municipal leaders permitting massively rich individuals like Bezos and Sanchez to convey Venice “to a standstill” by taking on sure components of the town, rendering neighborhoods and landmarks “inaccessible” to common individuals and to hundreds of normal vacationers visiting each day right now of 12 months. Locals additionally expressed concern in regards to the disruptions to individuals’s each day lives as a result of want to supply safety for top-tier visitors, and so they even blame rising housing prices and a dwindling resident inhabitants on the inflow of ultra-wealthy individuals.

“This wedding really is the symbol of all that is wrong with Venice,” instructor Marta Sottoriva instructed The Guardian. One other protester, Na Haby Stella Faye, was quoted by the New York Instances saying: “Let’s make sure that Venice is not remembered as a postcard venue where Bezos had his wedding but as the city that did not bend to oligarchs. We have a chance to disrupt a $10 million wedding — let’s do it.”

The precise date of the marriage and associated occasions are high secret, additional fueling native frustrations. It’s believed that the events are anticipated to start out June 24, though some say the marriage itself gained’t be held till June 28, The Guardian reported.

Whereas the visitor checklist has not been made public, TMZ and different shops have reported that it consists of Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner and Eva Longoria, all members of Sanchez’s “Bride Tribe,” as The Reduce additionally stated. In the meantime, TMZ additionally reported that Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, had been invited, as had been Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King.

The attainable presence of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner might not “bode well” for some organizers, The Guardian reported. It serves as a reminder that Bezos and Sanchez confirmed their embrace of Trump’s management by standing with him, his household and different tech billionaires at his inauguration in January, providing a show of “oligarchy” and the highly effective affect they anticipate to wield in Trump’s America, as The Guardian reported in January.

In the meantime, Perry and King joined Sanchez on what turned out to be a much-maligned April 14 area experience aboard certainly one of Bezos’ Blue Origin rockets. Whereas the area experience was billed as an train in feminine empowerment and scientific exploration, it lasted solely about 11 minutes and was broadly excoriated as only a luxurious space-tourism “PR stunt” on behalf of Bezos and Sanchez. The area experience additionally has develop into a goal of mockery for Venetians, inspiring their “No space for Bezos” marketing campaign.

It’s been reported that the extravaganza may value wherever from $11 million to $24 million, the New York Instances stated. A part of that value reportedly includes taking a fleet of water taxis out of circulation throughout peak vacationer season.

Metropolis corridor officers have tried to defend the Bezos-Sanchez wedding ceremony going down in Venice, particularly due to the riches they are saying it would convey to the town, the New York Instances and The Guardian reported. They argue that Venice is skilled in internet hosting main occasions, together with some 600 weddings annually, and demand that locals gained’t be inconvenienced.

However their political rivals say the marriage gained’t profit atypical Venetians within the slightest, The Guardian reported. Giovanni Andrea Martini, a councillor for the opposition, stated that Bezos, the third richest particular person on this planet, ought to at the very least take into account making up for the disruption his wedding ceremony will trigger by donating cash in the direction of restoring some 1,000 properties which were deserted within the metropolis.

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