After Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez introduced their engagement in 2023, they have been feted at two glitzy celebrations by among the largest names in celeb world: Oprah Winfrey, Barbra Streisand, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Pattinson and Kris Jenner.
However now that the Amazon founder and his attention-seeking fiancée are reportedly sending out invites to their marriage ceremony, set to happen this summer time in Venice, they have to understand that lots has modified in America and that a few of these stars may — or ought to — have points with being seen with them.
Within the aftermath of Trump’s election, Bezos stated he was “optimistic” about Trump’s second time period after his combative relationship with him throughout his first time period. He and Sanchez joined Musk for dinner with Donald and Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago, with Trump boasting, “In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” The couple additionally listened to Melania “regale” them with particulars of her deliberate documentary — for which Bezos’ Amazon paid the primary girl a reported $40 million.
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 20: (L-R) Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump within the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes workplace for his second time period because the forty seventh President of the US. (Photograph by Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Pictures)
Bezos and Sanchez successfully embraced Trump’s management by taking part in a reasonably beautiful little bit of stagecraft at Trump’s inauguration, which arguably served each Trump’s pursuits and their very own. They stood in an honored place within the U.S. Capitol with different international tech titans, together with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook dinner, in what The Guardian referred to as a show of “oligarchy” and the highly effective affect they anticipate “to wield” in Trump’s America.
The evening earlier than Trump’s inauguration, Bezos and Sanchez additionally attended what Sanchez hailed as “a magical evening” — a candlelight dinner honoring Trump, the place they obtained to schmooze with such MAGA figures as Musk, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
A few of Bezos and Sanchez’s well-known liberal buddies have been very outspoken of their opposition to Trump getting a second time period — and the hazard they stated he posed to American democracy. Whereas talking at a marketing campaign rally on behalf of Kamala Harris, Winfrey warned that the nation stood on “precipice of danger,” with Trump poised to usher in an authoritarian regime if elected.
TOPSHOT – US producer and actress Oprah Winfrey (L) holds up US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ hand as she arrive onstage throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 4, 2024. (Photograph by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photograph by ANGELA WEISS/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
As DiCaprio additionally endorsed Harris, he blasted Trump for denying “the facts” and “science” on local weather change. In the meantime, Streisand referred to as Trump a “travesty” and a “sloppy, sleepy … serial liar (who) can’t face the truth” and who lacks “shame or dignity” or “common decency.”
Eva Longoria and Katy Perry additionally campaigned for Harris, with Longoria saying that America would change into such a “scary place” beneath Trump that she was completely satisfied to be dwelling outdoors the US.
However will these celebrities’ opposition to Trump cease them from attending what may very well be the marriage of the 12 months — if not the last decade?
After Bezos and Sanchez first introduced their engagement in 2023, they hosted a celebration on their yacht close to Positano, Italy with a lineup of A-star company who included DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Invoice Gates, Ari Emanuel, Andrew Garfield, Queen of Jordan Rania Al Abdullah and Kris Jenner.
One other engagement celebration befell a number of months later on the Beverly Hills house of clothier Diana von Furstenberg and husband Barry Diller. The company at that half included Winfrey, Streisand, Jenner, Pattinson, Suki Waterhouse, Salma Hayek and Miranda Kerr.
Now, with the marriage within the works, folks will probably be questioning which of those A-listers will obtain invites. And, which of them will attend what may very well be seen as a chief public-relations alternative for Bezos and Sanchez? Or, extra to the purpose, which of them will probably be OK with letting the world that they’re there? However will some take a stand in opposition to Bezos and Sanchez’s pleasant relationship with Trump, if solely to not irritate their liberal fan base?
In the meantime, may Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner be on the visitor checklist? Talking of Ivanka Trump, it’s simple to think about Jenner and her daughters, Kim, Khloe Kardashian or Kourtney Kardashian, attending the marriage, provided that the clan has been completely satisfied lately to flaunt their social connections to each Ivanka Trump in addition to to Sanchez.
It additionally wouldn’t be shock to see Longoria, Perry or Gayle King attend the marriage, if Longoria and Perry have been staunchly pro-Harris.
As a lot as Longoria referred to as Trump “a convicted criminal who spews so much hate,” the “Desperate Housewives” star has proven a capability to show a blind eye on the subject of her buddies, Bezos and Sanchez, cozying as much as Trump.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 05: (L-R) Eva Longoria and Lauren Sanchez attend ELLE’s 2023 Ladies in Hollywood Celebration Offered by Ralph Lauren, Harry Winston and Viarae at Nya Studios on December 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Charley Gallay/Getty Pictures for ELLE )
Earlier this month, Longoria included Sanchez within the “badass” girls she celebrated in an Instagram publish for Worldwide Ladies’s Day. The longtime activist additionally praised Bezos and Sanchez for his or her “courage and civility” after she obtained a $50 million prize from them final 12 months to be shared with nonprofits of her alternative.
In the meantime, King and Perry are set to hitch Sanchez on an upcoming all-female journey to area on certainly one of Bezos’s Blue Origin rockets.
In the meantime, the response to King’s Instagram announcement that she could be becoming a member of Sanchez on the Blue Origin flight exhibits the backlash that she and different celebrities may face by aligning themselves with Sanchez and Bezos, together with by attending their marriage ceremony.
Most of the feedback on King’s announcement have been vital of her for associating with the couple, even for what’s been billed as a “historic” Blue Origin flight.
“Sometimes you gotta say no,” one particular person stated. “You know what (Bezos) stands for. That you are willingly participating is mind boggling and deeply disappointing,” stated one other.
“I am so disappointed that you’re participating in this PR stunt by an oligarch,” a 3rd particular person stated. “Where’s your integrity? How are we the public to trust you or CBS to report on Bezos’ gutting WaPo knowing he gave you a million dollar ride to space?”
