SALEMO, ITALY: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez celebrated their engagement by inviting all their close ones to a private yacht party. The event took place at their $500M yacht on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, as per a source on Wednesday, August 2. Though the pair got engaged two months ago in May, they took their time to make the celebration ‘perfect.’
Bezos and Sanchez made their relationship public in January 2019, months after Bezos announced his divorce from MacKenzie Scott after 25 years of marriage. Meanwhile, Sanchez split with her husband of 13 years Patrick Whitesell.
A source said around that time, “They are really in love and happy which makes everyone who knows them happy. They have been talking about it for a long time. All of her friends say this is her dream come true. She found the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with and they felt the time was right." It added, “He has all the money in the world and what was missing was someone to share it with and everybody on both sides is very happy."
How did Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez celebrate their engagement?
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s engagement party had to be special, and it was! The pair celebrated the occasion over his $500M yacht in Italy. The name of the yacht is Koru which is touted to be the largest sailing yacht in the world. It also has a wooden sculpture that resembles Bezos’ love for Sanchez.
Bezos talked about his philanthropic strategy
Amazon founder has earlier pledged that he will be donating most of his fortune to charity. Presently, it values at $124 billion net worth. Bezos talked about his philanthropic strategy and compared it with his arduous effort in constructing a titanic engine of e-commerce and cloud computing, as per People.
“The hard part is figuring out how to do it in a levered way. It’s not easy. Building Amazon was not easy. It took a lot of hard work, a bunch of very smart teammates, hard-working teammates, and I’m finding — and I think Lauren is finding the same thing — that charity, philanthropy, is very similar,” he said, adding, “There are a bunch of ways that I think you could do ineffective things, too. So you have to think about it carefully and you have to have brilliant people on the team.”
