(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 24 – Mega yachts and private jets started arriving in Venice Tuesday for the big wedding bash Thursday through Saturday of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and journalist and pilot Lauren Sanchez.
Fund manager and philanthropist Bill Miller’s 60-metre, 70 million dollar yacht l’Arience and billionaire Shahid ‘Shad’ Khan’s 122-metre yacht Kismet were among the first vessels to dock in the lagoon city where protests about Bezos’s “buyout” of the priciest major central amenities have gathered pace recently.
The yacht belonging to Khan, who owns Premier League soccer club Fulham and NFL team Jackonsville Jaguars, is one of the few boats in the world with a cryotherapy room.
Officials at Marco Polo Airport were tight-lipped about who had arrived on the flock of private jets that have already landed there, given the high security and secrecy surrounding the year’s toniest global nuptials.
But it is known that among the big names on the approximately 200-person guest list for the Bezos-Sanchez wedding are celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as Katy Perry, who traveled to space alongside Sanchez on a Blue Origin flight in April, AP reported this week.
Other guests reportedly include Kim Kardashian, Robert Pattinson, Bill Gates and Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who arrived in Modena Monday night.
The presence of Donald Jr has not been confirmed.
Also this week, Greenpeace Italia and British action group Everyone Hates Elon unfurled a 400-square-meter banner in Venice’s Saint Mark’s Square protesting against Amazon founder Bezos ahead of the wedding. “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax,” the banner read.
Greenpeace said the protest aimed to highlight the “social and climate injustice” of such events.
“Bezos embodies an economic and social model that is leading us towards collapse,” it said.
“Social injustice increasingly goes hand in hand with climate injustice: on one side the arrogance of a few billionaires who have lifestyles that are devastating for the planet, on the other all the people who suffer the damage of the environmental crisis on a daily basis”.
Venice has seen several celebrity weddings in recent years, the last between George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin in September 2014, which was less secretive.
Bezos and Sanchez are reportedly due to exchange rings at the Fonzazione Cini on the island of San Giorgio on Friday. (ANSA).
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Fund manager and philanthropist Bill Miller’s 60-metre, 70 million dollar yacht l’Arience and billionaire Shahid ‘Shad’ Khan’s 122-metre yacht Kismet were among the first vessels to dock in the lagoon city where protests about Bezos’s “buyout” of the priciest major central amenities have gathered pace recently.
The yacht belonging to Khan, who owns Premier League soccer club Fulham and NFL team Jackonsville Jaguars, is one of the few boats in the world with a cryotherapy room.
Officials at Marco Polo Airport were tight-lipped about who had arrived on the flock of private jets that have already landed there, given the high security and secrecy surrounding the year’s toniest global nuptials.
But it is known that among the big names on the approximately 200-person guest list for the Bezos-Sanchez wedding are celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as Katy Perry, who traveled to space alongside Sanchez on a Blue Origin flight in April, AP reported this week.
Other guests reportedly include Kim Kardashian, Robert Pattinson, Bill Gates and Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who arrived in Modena Monday night.
The presence of Donald Jr has not been confirmed.
Also this week, Greenpeace Italia and British action group Everyone Hates Elon unfurled a 400-square-meter banner in Venice’s Saint Mark’s Square protesting against Amazon founder Bezos ahead of the wedding. “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax,” the banner read.
Greenpeace said the protest aimed to highlight the “social and climate injustice” of such events.
“Bezos embodies an economic and social model that is leading us towards collapse,” it said.
“Social injustice increasingly goes hand in hand with climate injustice: on one side the arrogance of a few billionaires who have lifestyles that are devastating for the planet, on the other all the people who suffer the damage of the environmental crisis on a daily basis”.
Venice has seen several celebrity weddings in recent years, the last between George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin in September 2014, which was less secretive.
Bezos and Sanchez are reportedly due to exchange rings at the Fonzazione Cini on the island of San Giorgio on Friday. (ANSA).
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